BARRIE, March 29, 2023 - DriverDX participated as an exhibitor at the Commercial Trucking Job Fair in Barrie hosted by Invest Barrie and the County of Simcoe on Wednesday, March 29, 2023.
The Commercial Trucking Job Fair is a great opportunity to connect with potential drivers looking for work and companies looking to showcase innovative solutions for the trucking industry. Hundreds of drivers attended the job fair at the Allandale Recreation Centre community hall in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
“We are here to engage with the trucking industry and better understand what drivers are looking for in a commercial driving job today,” says Angie Ricci, Founder & CEO of DriverDX.
“We are here to engage with the trucking industry and better understand what drivers are looking for in a commercial driving job today.”
DriverDX is trying to solve the driver shortage problem by introducing flexible driving schedules that are more conducive to a better work-life balance and more representative of the future of work for carriers and drivers of buses, trucks, and vans.
A truck driver in attendance John Drynan shared, “if you wore it, ate it, utilized it, used it for something else, you slept on it, you drove it, it was definitely brought to you, by a truck driver!”
According to Statistics Canada, the driver shortage has reached record levels. In Canada, there were over 26,900 vacancies in the first three quarters of 2022 which exceeds the 2019 numbers by more than 6,400 positions. There is a vacancy rate of 8.7 percent for the truck transportation industry in the third quarter of 2022, second only to the 10.1 percent in accommodation and food services.
The driver shortage extends beyond trucking. About 40 percent of the 320,000 drivers in the Canadian workforce work in other industries like construction, agriculture, mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, and retail and wholesale trade.
The driver shortage problem cost the truck transportation industry over $3.1 billion in lost revenue in 2020, according to an estimate by Trucking HR Canada, and that number has likely grown as COVID-19 restrictions eased. Forestry alone has lost $450 million in business due to a lack of drivers, according to a Forestry Products Association of Canada estimate.
Events like The Commercial Trucking Job Fair in Barrie are being hosted across the country as municipalities try to attract commercial drivers into the transportation industry.
To learn more about DriverDX and how they are attracting people to become commercial drivers, please visit:
https://www.driverdx.com
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