The job of truck drivers includes transporting goods and materials across urban, provincial and international routes. There are also drivers who move trailers to the loading docks that are within trucking yards.
Fair Job prospects
The truck driver industry saw a significant rise, except in the recession period of 2008-09. The rise was due to the economic growth in general, especially the growth seen in the international trade, mainly with the United States. If the present economic development of Canada and the United States is anything to go by, the number of truck drivers is expected to rise slightly in the next couple of years.
Employment source
There is likely to be an increase in job opportunities mainly to fill the gap generated by the retired truck drivers, and to some extent from a rise in employment. Jobs are also likely to occur from gaps generated from drivers leaving their occupation and joining in other related fields like truck driving instructors, dispatchers and security guards or as motor dry and refrigerated transport supervisors or managers on promotion.
Labor pool
The number of people who can join truck driver jobs is comparatively large. These include people with a driver's license for the required class of vehicle being driven like dump truck or drivers of buses. There are also many unemployed truck drivers who have the required experience, people with the required training certificates, and also vocational program graduates in trucking. Then there are immigrants with the required entrance needs required for the job.
In spite of a large and better pool of labor, employers have difficulty recruiting employees as a large section of this pool fail to meet the employer's needs.
Drivers below 25 years old are hardly hired by employers due to the high cost of insurance premiums involved for young people. Employers want candidates to have enough maturity and experience in driving vehicles professionally.
Industries
A census revealed that 65% of truck drivers were from the transportation industry, mainly in truck transportation. The others were spread across the manufacturing, construction and wholesale industries.
Trends
The growth in this industry is depended mainly on the economic, organizational and regulatory factors.
Economic factors
It is the economic growth on which truck driving industry depends. With the increase in spending by consumers, businesses and governments, there will be a proportionate increase in the demand for transportation.
Other economic factors
There is likely to be stagnation or a little increase in the value of international trade in the next few years. A limit in growth possibilities in exports value to the United States is likely to occur due to the recession US experienced between 2007 and 2009 as around 70% of all international exports from Canada are to the country as well as other international exports.
The economic impact of recession was less palpable in Canada and it will be easy for the domestic market to make up the export stagnation to a certain extent and contribute directly to the growth of the industry.
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Fair Job prospects
The truck driver industry saw a significant rise, except in the recession period of 2008-09. The rise was due to the economic growth in general, especially the growth seen in the international trade, mainly with the United States. If the present economic development of Canada and the United States is anything to go by, the number of truck drivers is expected to rise slightly in the next couple of years.
Employment source
There is likely to be an increase in job opportunities mainly to fill the gap generated by the retired truck drivers, and to some extent from a rise in employment. Jobs are also likely to occur from gaps generated from drivers leaving their occupation and joining in other related fields like truck driving instructors, dispatchers and security guards or as motor dry and refrigerated transport supervisors or managers on promotion.
Labor pool
The number of people who can join truck driver jobs is comparatively large. These include people with a driver's license for the required class of vehicle being driven like dump truck or drivers of buses. There are also many unemployed truck drivers who have the required experience, people with the required training certificates, and also vocational program graduates in trucking. Then there are immigrants with the required entrance needs required for the job.
In spite of a large and better pool of labor, employers have difficulty recruiting employees as a large section of this pool fail to meet the employer's needs.
Drivers below 25 years old are hardly hired by employers due to the high cost of insurance premiums involved for young people. Employers want candidates to have enough maturity and experience in driving vehicles professionally.
Industries
A census revealed that 65% of truck drivers were from the transportation industry, mainly in truck transportation. The others were spread across the manufacturing, construction and wholesale industries.
Trends
The growth in this industry is depended mainly on the economic, organizational and regulatory factors.
Economic factors
It is the economic growth on which truck driving industry depends. With the increase in spending by consumers, businesses and governments, there will be a proportionate increase in the demand for transportation.
Other economic factors
There is likely to be stagnation or a little increase in the value of international trade in the next few years. A limit in growth possibilities in exports value to the United States is likely to occur due to the recession US experienced between 2007 and 2009 as around 70% of all international exports from Canada are to the country as well as other international exports.
The economic impact of recession was less palpable in Canada and it will be easy for the domestic market to make up the export stagnation to a certain extent and contribute directly to the growth of the industry.
View the original article here