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OTA Applauds the WSIB’s Rate Reductions for Trucking (Sept. 26, 2018) – Ontario’s trucking industry received some good news today in the form of the WSIB’s announcement to significantly reduce trucking’s rate (RG570) by 30 percent – from $6.97 to $4.88. Today’s announcement, made at WSIB’s annual general meeting, marks the return of $1.45 billion back to the…

One of the most difficult concepts I have tried to grasp over the past number of years and the one I cherish the most is the one that goes “I am in this position because I chose to be here. I take 100% responsibility for me.” I am not trying to get to heavy on…

Every industry has at least one lobby group that represents them. It’s actually a fairly decent system where industry professionals assist elected officials in making policies and laws that govern respective livelihoods. Those who win elections often only have one major talent… getting elected. Too often cabinet positions are assigned based on qualifications that have…

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When Shawn Baird, founder and President was asked how he named his company twenty years ago; he related that while trying to decide on a name for his company, he was faxing ideas of different names to his lawyer on a fax machine with a brand name of Sharp. Shawn thought to himself, this has…

(Aug. 2, 2018) — The Canadian Trucking Alliance is warning truck drivers and carriers that using the so-called Driver Inc employment scheme could ultimately come back to bite them. The use of Driver Inc. as a recruitment tool is becoming so widespread that without quick intervention by the Government of Canada and provincial worker compensation boards all…

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