Putting People in Trucking Workforce Connex Nova Scotia Forum Supply and Demand = Trucking Industry

Putting People in Trucking Next 8 minutes you will learn about: –Driver shortage facing trucking industry –Economic impact driver shortage has on day to day living –One Journey partnership and relationship to Essential Skills / Department of Education –Strategy to Attract Equity Workers to Occupations in the Trucking Industry

Putting People in Trucking Driver Shortage new entrants Nova Scotia -37,000 new entrants Canada -between 200 – 250 new entrants annually to private truck driver training colleges in NS

Putting People in Trucking Economic impact … - Lack of skilled drivers = potential lack of company growth - 90% of all consumable goods coming into and going out of Atlantic Canada is done by truck - Every 3 seconds a tractor trailer unit crosses the US border and is a multi billion dollar industry

Putting People in Trucking One Journey Trucking Work and Learn Partnership -Industry recognized they needed to be part of the solution -Project Team included Department of Community Services, Department of Education, Trucking Industry employers (Armour Transportation, Eassons, Sunbury Transport), DCS clients, Future Worx / Career Works Nova, private training industry and THRSC

Putting People in Trucking -Project phases: orientation with employers, one week job readiness, four weeks essential skills, 12 weeks of skills development with end goal being employment -Test of Workplace Essential Skills testing specifically for the trucking industry was developed through the national Canadian Trucking Human Resource Council (pre employment for new entrants / test for professional driver / dispatcher / safety personel) -Three main essential skills focused in testing is reading comprehension, document use and numeracy

Putting People in Trucking Measuring success … –Of the original group of 8; 5 are employed using their Class 1 driver’s license; 1 is completing their work experience and 2 did not complete all phases of the training (one for medical reasons / one due to nerves, but has since found employment and attributes personal success to growth during essential skills training)

Putting People in Trucking Strategy to Attract Equity Workers to Occupations in Trucking Industry Recognize one strategy will not work for all equity groups Current initiative – similar to One Journey format – in partnership with Trucking Industry / Trucking Sector Council and APTEC

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