Trucking HR Canada’s newest labor market data signifies Canada’s truck driver scarcity is worsening, with the emptiness fee for jobs within the truck transportation trade in 2022 greater than tripling since StatsCan started amassing such information in 2015.
Vacancies are additionally greater than twice as excessive as in 2019, previous to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the variety of truck driver vacancies in 2022 reached an all-time excessive at almost 25,600 vacant positions.
The unemployment fee amongst transport truck drivers in 2022 was 3.4%, with a spot between the demand for, and provide of, skilled drivers at 15,200 individuals.
“The continued labor shortages in transport truck drivers and different key occupations throughout the trucking and logistics sector proceed to threaten the steadiness of the Canadian provide chain,” stated Craig Faucette, chief packages officer at Trucking HR Canada.
“Trucking and Logistics employers are working tirelessly to battle the labor shortages, and Trucking HR Canada is working to help their efforts via our revolutionary HR options, together with on-line instruments, and sources, interactive webinars, networking occasions throughout the nation, as properly monetary helps for coaching, and wages.”
The newest Labour Market Insights Particular Emptiness Report does, nonetheless, present that truck driver vacancies declined within the fourth quarter, from 7.9% in Q3, to six.9%. However the full 12 months 2022 emptiness fee of 8% for truck drivers was up sharply from the 5.8% emptiness fee seen in 2021.
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