Rate Discrepancy between usa and Canada

Too many carriers in Canada running for too little freight.
Some of them were written up in a Globe and Mail article a few years ago after the Humboldt crash.
They hire only drivers from overseas, charge the driver up to $30,000 to guarantee a job here and promise them a path to Canadian citizenship. Then run them down the road for 15 cents a mile or less so they can basically just eat.
It’s hard for a standard carrier to compete against that and have to pay a driver 50 cents a mile.

 

Yup - and carriers who have all their authorities in order have a hard time competing - just saying not sure how they will sustain the rate - less than $1.2 from the US

 

i’ve heard that Guys in the states with their own authority pulling dry vans are up to 20k a week right now working off the spot market and load boards . apparently even guys who did flatbed and tanker have moved over to dry van because of the rates due to covid. old dryvan trailers are bringing big $$$ right now due to a huge shortage on new trailers same for older pre emissions trucks due to the chip storage

hell even sea containers just for storage are way up my dad bought one 2 years ago for $2900 delivered now he just paid over 4k . Everyone’s buying them up and hoarding supplies in them

 

Because we are told we need to import Millions of people over the next few years. A big portion end up in trucking. The good thing is a lot of them are now bypassing the carrier that got them started and directly hauling for the shipper. Maybe that’s why companies are limiting how many trucks you can have..

 

This entire country is going to complete ####, that’s why.

O/Os working for .90c/mile gross (their fuel, insurance and numbers)

Engineers work for $38 500 a year now

Skilled Trades jobs are minimum wage.

Import the third world, become the third world, welcome to the Global Dystopia.

 

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Bingo i talked to one local canada cartage owner op and he said a toronto to brampton run is only paying $60 .the us is starting to see a big increase in immigration from places like indian also same with australia and guess what industry they go to you guess it trucking . why you may ask because why spend 4+ years going to college or university when you may make less then some trucking jobs .trucking is not very hard to get into and many new canadians think they’re other buddies are making millions when there not vs some with a degree .believe me i’ve heard it from more then one south asian that’s in trucking some we’re highly educated back home but here in canada doesn’t mean much