Putting People in Trucking

Workforce Connex

Nova Scotia Forum

Supply and Demand =

Trucking Industry

Putting People in Trucking

• Next 8 minutes you will learn about:

– Driver shortage facing trucking industry

– Economic impact driver shortage has on day to day living

– One Journey partnership and relationship to Essential Skills / Department of Education

– Strategy to Attract Equity Workers to Occupations in the Trucking Industry

Putting People in Trucking

• Driver Shortage

- 1100 new entrants Nova Scotia

- 37,000 new entrants Canada

- between 200 – 250 new entrants annually to private truck driver training colleges in NS

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Economic impact …

- Lack of skilled drivers = potential lack of company growth

- 90% of all consumable goods coming into and going out of Atlantic Canada is done by truck

- Every 3 seconds a tractor trailer unit crosses the US border and is a multi billion dollar industry

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One Journey Trucking Work and Learn Partnership

- Industry recognized they needed to be part of the solution

- Project Team included Department of Community Services, Department of Education, Trucking Industry employers (Armour Transportation, Eassons, Sunbury Transport), DCS clients, Future Worx / Career Works Nova, private training industry and THRSC

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- Project phases: orientation with employers, one

week job readiness, four weeks essential skills, 12 weeks of skills development with end goal being employment

- Test of Workplace Essential Skills testing specifically for the trucking industry was developed through the national Canadian Trucking Human Resource Council (pre employment for new entrants / test for professional driver / dispatcher / safety personel)

- Three main essential skills focused in testing is reading comprehension, document use and numeracy

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• Measuring success …

– Of the original group of 8; 5 are employed using their Class 1 driver’s license; 1 is completing their work experience and 2 did not complete all phases of the training (one for medical reasons / one due to nerves, but has since found employment and attributes personal success to growth during essential skills training)

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• Strategy to Attract Equity Workers to

Occupations in Trucking Industry

• Recognize one strategy will not work for all equity groups

• Current initiative – similar to One Journey format – in partnership with Trucking Industry / Trucking Sector Council and APTEC

Putting People in Trucking

• Questions?