Mike
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In a recent briefing note to carriers, the Canadian Trucking Alliance highlighted a handful of stats and factoids that show where operating costs are these days. The verdict? From manpower to maintenance, running a fleet is getting expensive.
LABOUR: The number one operating cost for trucking companies (somewhere between 40- to 75 percent of most fleets' total costs, depending on the type of operation), driver wages are reportedly going up.
Disgruntled truck stop chatter notwithstanding, the CTA says that while it's difficult to determine average wages, carriers are reporting increases of around 2 percent, and much higher in "certain situations where carriers may be trying to get driver wages back to where they were prior to the recession."
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LABOUR: The number one operating cost for trucking companies (somewhere between 40- to 75 percent of most fleets' total costs, depending on the type of operation), driver wages are reportedly going up.
Disgruntled truck stop chatter notwithstanding, the CTA says that while it's difficult to determine average wages, carriers are reporting increases of around 2 percent, and much higher in "certain situations where carriers may be trying to get driver wages back to where they were prior to the recession."
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