FROM TRUCK NEWS LAST OCTOBER:
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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.”
Driver shortages have plagued Canada’s trucking industry already, so for companies to lose even more drivers over vaccination rates could hurt even more.
The law of unintended consequences.
It’ll be Feb to Mar for this border issue to show declines at marketplace (immediate in feed stocks in Canada now)
At issue is the long wait times (4-6 hours) at the warehouses to get loaded within the US.