Posted on 10/20/2021 9:32:47 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
Cross-border truck drivers will need to prove they’re fully vaccinated against Covid-19 beginning in early January, under a series of measures that will also see more non-essential travelers return to land and ferry crossings.
“This approach will provide ample time for essential travelers such as truckers, students, and healthcare workers to get vaccinated,” U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said in a related statement.
“This new travel system will create consistent, stringent protocols for all foreign nationals traveling to the United States – whether by air, land or ferry – and accounts for the wide availability of Covid-19 vaccinations.”
Canada and the U.S. restricted non-essential travel along the land border beginning in March 21, 2020. While Canada reopened the border to fully vaccinated U.S. travelers this August, the U.S. will begin to permit vaccinated non-essential travelers in November.
Existing restrictions were set to expire Oct. 21, but will be extended until the new rules are in place.
Questions remain as to whether the U.S. will recognize those with mixed vaccine doses, and what types of documents will be needed to prove the vaccine status.
Trucking industry representatives are already expressing concerns about the impact a vaccine mandate could have on supply chains.
“It’s going to be a disaster,” said Wendell Erb, president and CEO of the Erb Group, a cross-border fleet headquartered in New Hamburg, Ont.
“Unfortunately, the percentage of people who are unvaccinated have no intention of getting vaccinated,” he said. “I’m already short of drivers to handle the freight I’m going to have.”
Trucking HR Canada data identified 18,000 truck driver vacancies in the second quarter of this year.
The mandate could be the factor that pushes other drivers away from cross-border work, Erb added.
“At the end of the day, I severely worry about the supply chain,” said Doug Sutherland, president of Sutco Transportation, headquartered in Salmo, B.C. “If we don’t have another solution, [such as] testing on a weekly basis, we’re going to see something detrimental to the supply chain.”
Sutherland stressed he supports vaccines. “I wouldn’t ever have anticipated the push we have seen against vaccines.”
But if the vaccines are actually mandated, he worries that Canada could be short close to 15,000 truck drivers, based on the vaccination rates for the general population.
“The big issue we’re running into here is we already have a severe supply chain shortage,” said Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada.
It’s probably safe to assume that, like the general population, about 20% of truck drivers remain unvaccinated, he added. “We’re looking at a 20% reduction in our cross-border workforce at a time when we’re trying to fill seats.”
South of the border, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) has also raised concerns about plans for a vaccination mandate that would apply to any business with more than 100 employees.
“I didn’t realize if you’re a small fleet you’re immune,” Erb said.
In a survey conducted in mid-September, just 29% of surveyed Today’s Trucking readers said their workplaces require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Twenty-seven percent said they would consider leaving their job if their employer required people to be vaccinated, and 32% said a “significant share” of the trucking industry’s workforce would quit their jobs if required to get vaccines.
The survey had 554 respondents.
so it’s really now “Get vaCCINATED OR LOSE YOUR JOB- PERIOD!” WITH HTE PUKES O NTHE LEFT-
woops cps lock
Just not the illegals in the truck, huh?
What happened to 100 days of masking and we are done? Or 70% shot up is enough? Or two weeks to flatten the curve?
It was all lies.
After WWII the people responsible for experimenting on humans (Jews and other undesirables (to them)) were fairly tried then publicly hanged.
Let us hope we see a repeat of that for the people pushing these mandated/force/coerced experimental untested unproven vaccines on people who either have to take it to earn a living and maybe die from it or not and lose their income. It’s very much against the law for the federal government or anyone else to do this and against the Nuremberg Code agreement.
I hope the hangings are very public.
Unions have been trying for years to stop Mexican drivers hauling loads from Mexico direct to points deep into the USA. This will put a crimp in that practice. COVID is just an excuse.
Twenty-seven percent said they would consider leaving their job if their employer required people to be vaccinated, and 32% said a “significant share” of the trucking industry’s workforce would quit their jobs if required to get vaccines.
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No problem. It’s super easy to drive a 16 wheeler. I’m sure Biden can demo how it’s done.
It certainly sounds like an international violation of human rights.
Is the Hague still in business?
I’m sure Hunter is qualified.
What you said makes sense.
Of course not retroactive to the 1.7 million illegals that Brandon brought over.
Toonces the cat could drive better than Joe.
“This new travel system will create consistent, stringent protocols for all foreign nationals traveling to the United States – whether by air, land or ferry – and accounts for the wide availability of Covid-19 vaccinations.”
So this means that all the invaders crossing the Rio Grande will need to show their vaccination cards. Good show.
Alejandro Mayorkas, what an @$$h0le !
Exactly- these peeps in office could NOT have stolen the election at a worse time- The whole thing is as though God allowed it to happen for maximum damage to the country- for whatever His reasons are- Trump really was making this country great again- only to have him cheated out of office so that power hungry liars could capitalize on a pandemic to control the citizenry, destroy businesses, destroy people’s lives- cancel people, ruin their reputations- on and on and on-
it was like everything was in place for the perfect cyclone of destruction to happen—
So frustrating after all the great progress we were making, low gas prices, energy independence, border wall being constructed finally- on and on it went for making this a great nation again- the military was being strengthened- so many htigns positive-
Then whamo- the rug gets pulled out from under us
You Are qualified!
(It’s 18 wheels btw)
It’s going to be a disaster,” said Wendell Erb, president and CEO of the Erb Group, a cross-border fleet headquartered in New Hamburg, Ont.
“Unfortunately, the percentage of people who are unvaccinated have no intention of getting vaccinated,” he said. “I’m already short of drivers to handle the freight I’m going to have.”
Well said
Bondage slavery
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