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Ontario to fund Bradford Bypass

Rita Smith

Seven months ahead of the June, 2022 provincial election, Premier Doug Ford has announced that the Bradford Bypass will be fully funded.  

The Bradford Bypass is a new four-lane freeway connecting Highway 400 and Highway 404 in Simcoe County and York Region. This new corridor is expected to congestion on Highway 400 and existing east-west local roads. A Preliminary Design and environmental assessment in accordance with Ontario Regulation 697/21 for the project is currently underway and is expected to be completed by December 2022.

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Will you get Ontario’s vaccine passport?

Rita Smith

RWN posed these questions to truckers about Ontario’s vaccine passport: have you gotten it? Do you plan to get it? Do you plan to ignore the fact that it exists? How are you managing?

In a total of 40 responses, only two drivers replied that they planned to get the vaccine passport, including one who said “I believe I’m going to have to get it in order to do my job because I cross the border. From what I understand Biden will be insisting we get it as of January.”

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Standardized Canadian COVID vaccine passport expected to be available soon, Trudeau says

RWN Staff

On October 21st, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that a standardized Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination is now available to residents of Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, and is expected to be available in the other provinces soon.

Canada is working with international partners in an effort to obtain recognition abroad to facilitate world travel.

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Ontario proposes changes to improve washroom access for truck drivers and delivery workers

RWN Staff

On October 20, the Ontario government announced it intends to introduce legislation that would, if passed, allow delivery workers access to company washrooms at businesses where they are delivering or picking up items.

Consultations conducted by the Ontario Workforce Recovery Advisory Committee have indicated that couriers, truck drivers, and people who deliver food, including those for online delivery platform are often denied use of a washroom at businesses they serve.

“For professional drivers and delivery workers who have been on the frontlines of the pandemic for the past 19 months, the inability to access restroom facilities has been a major irritant. This legislation recognizes the essential work that these men and women have been doing and provides them with the working conditions and respect they deserve,” says Teamsters Canada president Francois Laporte.

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Ships sit in the harbours and I sit at a truck dealership: we just want to go home

Mike Murchison

My truck has broken down. Has been down since Saturday morning. No big deal, right? Wrong!

  Parts. Where are they? Why can’t I get them? Why doesn’t the dealer or any other heavy duty shop have them, for that matter?

 That’s right. They are on a ship somewhere. Anchored off of either the Pacific or Atlantic coast, awaiting its turn to nestle into a berth and get unloaded.

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Truckers will be required to provide proof of vaccination at U.S. border in January 2022

RWN Staff

On October 12th, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced that, following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health experts, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will amend Title 19 regulations to allow non-essential travelers who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and have appropriate documentation to enter the United States via land and ferry ports of entry (POEs) across the U.S. border.

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