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TTSAO president Phil Fletcher; Minister of Transportation Caroline Mulroney; and TTSAO Board Chair Ken Adams met to discuss training challenges and opportunities on April 19, 2023.
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MELT, fake trucking credentials, simulator training covered in TTSAO meeting with Minister Mulroney

Upgrades to the MELT curriculum, a mentorship program for new graduates, and counterfeit Trucking credentials were all on the agenda TTSAO’s April meeting with Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney.

Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) President Phil Fletcher says the agenda was packed but the discussions went well at the April 19th meeting.

“Most importantly, we discussed the concept of adding a ‘post-graduation’ mentorship program for new drivers,” Fletcher says. “We would need to co-ordinate it with the carriers hiring new graduates, and it can be designed specifically to target some of the real problems we are seeing with new drivers in Northern Ontario in winter.”

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Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford at the April 21st 2023 announcement that Canada will invest as much as $13 billion in the Volkswagen battery plant in St. Thomas, Ontario.
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Epic levels of propaganda, spin at Volkswagen presser

The April 21st press conference announcing that Canada and Ontario are funneling billions of dollars to Volkswagen for a new battery plant in St. Thomas was an epic event.

It wasn’t just epic for the number of times politicians got to use the word “epic,” which they used an epic number of times.

It wasn’t even epic considering the truly impressive ease with which politicians can prattle on for minutes while saying exactly nothing, or the skill with which politicians can shamelessly make statements that have no basis in reality (whoops, at least 10 jurisdictions have a higher growth rate than Ontario. Someone alert Doug Ford.)

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford at the April 21, 2023 announcement of Volkswagen's first Canadian plant. Photo: YouTube
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Canada invests up to $13 billion to bring Volkswagen to Ontario

On April 21st, 2023, the announcement that Volkswagen will build its first Canadian plant in St. Thomas was made official.

Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were joined by Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, and the federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, to announce the deal for St. Thomas, Ontario, and Canada’s entire electric vehicle supply chain.

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TTSAO warns of schools falsely using its logo

The Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) has been alerted to the fact that there is at least one school operator which is falsely claiming to be a member of the TTSAO.

“We have solid evidence of one trucking school’s certificates being emblazoned with the TTSAO logo, yet they are not members,” says Philip Fletcher, TTSAO President.

“One of our legitimate operators had someone come in to upgrade their training. This school operator said, ‘Bring your certificate to show that you’ve got your MELT’…there on the left side of the certificate – the first thing you see – is the TTSAO logo.”

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