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At Transam Carriers, we believe that success is not achieved without professional human attitudes. We are proud of providing some of the most ﬂexible work options in the industry for an optimum work-life balance. All of these, in conjunction with new equipment, modern technologies, in-house truck shop, and cross-dock facility, make Transam an exceptional workplace that we call here our second home.

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A family owned and operated trucking company for 20 years, we specialize in touring and production transportation in the entertainment and events industry. The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted us all and during this time Stage Door has pivoted to a busy freight schedule. However, we know that touring and live events will resume in the months ahead and we will again return to our core business. In anticipation of that return, we are looking to add new talent to our driver pool now. Right now, it is the ideal time for drivers, both with and without experience in the entertainment and touring environment, to join our team. As touring and entertainment transportation starts coming back on-line, you will have the opportunity to learn from the best in the business. Our veteran tour drivers will show you the ropes and mentor you on your way to becoming a valued member of our entertainment/touring team.

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MAKING YOUR MILES COUNT Robert D. Scheper

These are Taxing Times! There have been TAX changes. In some parts of Canada, the changes seem more dramatic than those in the rest. The Carbon Tax… I mean Fuel Charge, is calculated nearly identically to the formula by the International Fuel Tax Association (IFTA) that has been in operation for decades. The idea for the Fuel Charge must have come directly from the federal department of redundancy department. In my second book: Choosing a Trucking Company, I spent nearly a third of the book talking about fuel costs for operators. The section has a whole chapter on fuel taxes. Many drivers still misunderstand IFTA. Too many think that fueling up in many different locations will save them money. They just do not understand. It’s a fleet consumption rate per mile (flat) that is charged to Carriers for their fleet movements. In my book, while discussing IFTA in the context of Carrier contracts, I introduced an option where Carriers could pay each operator (or credit) the entire fuel tax costs. It would be the best system to figure out actual operator running costs. Fuel tax is charged by the mile. It’s the same way Carriers charge shippers/receivers by the mile. It can be easily separated and calculated in all rates charged to shippers (usually not done) and to independent operators on the fleet (already done in many carriers). Fuel taxes shown on

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invoices probably wouldn’t be popular since government and people often don’t like to physically see taxes on their bills, but it could easily be done. Fuel tax should not even have to be seen by independent operators unless they also openly get reimbursed for it at the same time. So also, the Carbon Tax… Fuel Charge (from the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act) can be physically calculated and displayed on invoices (not that that would happen). Fuel Charge should therefore be a cost charged directly to shippers but NOT a net cost to the independent operator. It is a flat tax based on miles traveled in the process of moving freight from point A to point B. The Fuel charge is a direct tax (cost) to freight transportation in Canada. This cost must be absorbed by the customer (shipper/receiver). In no way should an operator be consuming it. If calculations and deductions are made off an independent operator’s statement, it should be accompanied by an equal to or greater than increase in the rate per mile on their contract. The best contracts will not even calculate them on independent operator’s settlement statements… it is a Carrier cost. CRA (who administers the Fuel Charge and its Registration) has sent many letters to independent operators who work for Carriers

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Provincial government sometimes resembles the childhood hand clapping game (or sometimes knuckle wrapping).

asking them to register. It’s not that they are trying to double charge to both Carriers and Operators, but their database doesn’t know the difference between the two. On their system it just says “Trucking” (or some description like that). If you are an independent operator (running under someone else’s running rights), do NOT register for the Fuel Charge.

Fuel Charge is a tax administered and collected by the Federal government (CRA). Carriers should be passing on the costs of the tax to their shippers/receivers (and not operators). It should and will increase the costs of products delivered to our doors and stores. It doesn’t matter what the politicians or media claims it will do - in the end it simply increases costs… ALL costs… sooner or later and sometimes multiple times in the process of stuff getting to our doors. This is the fate of our country, higher

If you are an independent operator and received a letter from CRA requiring you to register, all you must do is contact the Excise Duties and Taxes department shown on the letter and clearly state that you are an interliner and not a Carrier. If you are unfortunate and get an uninformed officer, you must be firm with them and ask for their supervisor… keep going up until someone understands you are not a Carrier. Whatever you do, do NOT register. Once you register it will take considerable effort to “Un-Register”.

costs for products and services. About the Author: Robert D. Scheper is a leading Accountant and Consultant to the Lease/Owner operator industry in Canada. His first book in the Making Your Miles Count series “taxes, taxes, taxes” was released in 2007. His firm exclusively serves Lease/Owner Operators across Canada. His second book “Choosing a Trucking company” is the most in-depth analysis of the operator industry available today. He has a Master’s degree (MBA) in financial management and has been serving the industry since he and his wife came off the road in 1993. His dedication, commitment and strong opinions can be read and heard in many articles and seminars.

Fortunately, our firm has a great reputation with CRA and stopping the registration process is very quick if they ask. However, different jurisdictions across Canada can have different people and different mindsets. Remember, Canada is a very large country and equal training, and having equal administering agents is not easy. It’s a new program and clear pathways have not been established. Fuel tax is administered provincially, Fuel Charge is Federal. Being in the industry for over 30 years has taught me one thing… government departments rarely share information properly. Provinces rarely cooperate with each other, and the hand holding between Federal and

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You can find him at www.making yourmilescount.com or 1-877-987-9787.

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Drivers join your company because they believe they will prosper with you. The main reason they leave a company is the breakdown in communication and promises unfulfilled.

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SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE Ray J. Haight

Sleight of Hand An underlying theme of the retention project plan is looking for, but not finding bad guys, because going down this path is a waste of spirit. There is no one I know of that goes to work and tries to fail. There are though, a large volume of people that trucking companies set up to fail, starting with their new drivers and, along with others, their margin generators, the dispatchers. By truck count, trucking companies are by and large approximately 90% privately held. The barriers to entry into the business are minimal and that lends itself to many situations wherein a driver, sensing the opportunities available, starts with one truck and grows the business from there. That was not my situation but not far off. My father left me three trucks when he unexpectedly passed. I tell you this because it might not differ from many stories out there. There are mostly two scenarios: folks who were pushed into the industry, or they took a leap of faith and just went for it. I did a little of both. For someone to get from one, two, or three trucks to a trucking company takes drive and it takes hard work, and it takes trust in oneself. It is no place for the weak at heart. When you look at this situation, what you won’t see is any start-up entrepreneurs that have HR prerequisites. You don’t see communication training, conflict resolution etc. And at one to three trucks, why would you? It is when things take off that it gets problematic. When you own a handful of trucks and suddenly, the market you serve decides they want more from you, you start to grow. It isn’t easy to juggle all of the moving parts that you need to pull it off. 14 • OVER THE ROAD

Most of these challenges are outside the walls. The finance community wants you, the bankers, the new customers, the OEM’s, fuel companies and all the suppliers. It goes on and on. A new entrepreneur has to make competent decisions regarding all of these necessities, or they may never make it. So, what comes last? Well, not in all cases, but in many, it is the relationships inside the business because you don’t notice them slipping away. It was for me, that’s for sure. We went from not measuring turnover to when we did measure turnover and it was at 120%. Congratulations, your fleet size is now 200 trucks but you’re burning through 240 people a year. I believe the above scenario has a lot to do with the historically high turnover numbers in our industry. There are only two ways of countering this issue from the company’s perspective. One: hire more drivers faster and for a while, many companies were very good at this countermeasure. That was until an interruption in the supply of new drivers was slowed down by a few factors, including Covid & driver testing facilities not issuing new drivers licenses. Also, a lot of older drivers decided this would be an excellent time to slow down or retire. Two: take a good hard look in the mirror and ask yourself how you transition this company you have built into one that people want to come to work for and stay at, rather than flee as soon as they get a chance. This second option is much more complicated and by the way, no supplier can do this for you. If you are looking for a method of reducing turnover by outsourcing it to another company, you will never get it MAY 2021

working for you? Conversely if you have a dispatcher that churns through drivers, what is the difference?

under control. It’s not going to happen. You did everything required to get what you got, so own it or stop whining. If you own it, you can change it; if you don’t, you won’t.

I tend to look at all turnover as a failure with a learning opportunity. Either we should do a better job in the screening process, or we didn’t set the individual up for success while at our company. At our company, a review of the turnover related to retirements and healthrelated challenges amounted to just over 2% of our turnover. This was the total amount of turnover that was out of our control. To me, that says that our absolute opportunity is 97% retention or 3% turnover.

The cost of turnover permeates throughout the whole company and it hides in various spots in every department. So much so that you must have your eyes open for it because it is easy to miss. In talking to one of my clients last week, where I sit as a member of their driver retention steering committee, the following scenario came up; This company dropped their turnover last year by 50%; they do an excellent job of measuring the effects of turnover, creating standard operating procedures and policies, and training of their people. All with the intention of dropping their turnover by another 50% this year and I have every belief that they will do it.

Driver turnover is a business challenge for many in our industry, but like many other challenges, leaders can rise to the challenge. We overcome recessions, pandemics, sub-prime mortgage disasters and on and on. Driver turnover is in this kind of company when it comes to overcoming challenges. What is your company doing about option one or two?

They have nine dispatchers, and we were looking at average revenue per truck by dispatcher. A cursory look at the numbers put two of the nine dispatchers clearly ahead of the others. But when you drill down a little, you can see that one of these dispatchers has a turnover number that is far higher than the average of the rest of the boards. So, when these dollars were factored in and taken to a net number after $6K per hire was deducted, the real winners for margin were neither of the top two gross revenue per tractor folks.

Safe trucking, Ray J. Haight TCA Retention Coach ray@tcaingauge.com www.tcaingauge.com

This is important for more than a couple of reasons, not the least of which is that much like the new trucking company owner, the dispatchers were taught that money comes before the people. As much as we could debate this, the two are symbiotic in that without customers and revenue, you have no company and of course, without drivers, you have no customers. If you had a dispatcher that churned through customers, how long would they be MAY 2021

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WOMEN IN TRUCKING Ellen Voie

We Have Increased Our Presence! March is Women’s History Month and the Women In Trucking Association was formed in March of 2007. Now, fourteen years later, have we advanced our mission to “encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, address obstacles, and promote accomplishments?” The first question we are usually asked by the media or potential members is regarding the percentage of women employed in the trucking industry. After all, according to W. Edwards Deming, a statistician and quality control expert, ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’. If you look at the USA Department of Labor data regarding labor force statistics, they currently show the number of professional “Driver/sales workers and truck drivers” as 3,364.000 in the United States. Of those, 7.8 percent are women, which means there are 262,392 female drivers. However, the Department of Labor description (code 53-3031) includes those who “drive a truck over an established route or within an established territory and sell or deliver goods, such as food products, including restaurant take out items, or pick up or delivery services such as laundry”. The description also states

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they may take orders, collect payments, or stock deliveries. If we use the Department of Labor figures, there has been an 88 percent increase in female drivers since 2010. This is amazing, and we would like to take credit for this increase. Well, what the heck, we WILL take credit for this increase because we’ve made it our mission to bring more women into the trucking industry. However, when you think of the trucking industry, we aren’t really thinking about those straight trucks pulling into grocery stores to stock chips on the shelves, or laundry service trucks dropping off your freshly dry-cleaned clothing. The previous description doesn’t seem to be about over the road or long-haul professional drivers. For that reason, the Board of Directors at the Women In Trucking Association determined that we need to know if we are making a difference in this industry. So, we decided to create our own WIT Index. First, we paired with the National Transportation Institute (NTI) which graciously added a question to their quarterly wage survey. They asked carriers for the percentage of female over the road MAY 2021

Each year we also examine the publicly traded trucking companies by partnering with Memphis University to conduct the research. In 2020, of the fourteen publicly traded carriers, women comprised 22 percent of the Board of Director seats, but only nine percent of the leadership executives. (One carrier has no women serving on their Board of Directors and seven carriers have no female executives.)

drivers. Surprisingly, many of the carriers had not determined this number and did not know their male to female ratio. For those who responded to the NTI survey, the average percentage of over the road drivers who are female was 7.13 percent in 2017 and increased to 7.89 percent in 2018. The needle was moving slightly, and the number of respondents was increasing.

What have we learned from monitoring this data? It reinforces the mission of Women In Trucking Association to encourage the employment of women in the transportation industry and to address obstacles (such as unconscious bias in hiring and promoting) and to celebrate the successes of the women who have become visible and influential.

In 2019 we partnered with Freightwaves to conduct a survey to determine the industry’s participation of women as technicians, safety directors, managers, and professional drivers. They received 884 responses from both for-hire and private carriers, logistics companies, and freight tech firms. Overall, the respondents reported that women make up ten percent of all over the road drivers. We also learned that only four percent of diesel technicians are women and that about 38 percent of fleet safety professionals are women.

Now that we can monitor the data, our goal is to see the numbers increase in all areas. Our intent is to make the trucking industry a more diverse and inclusive environment. We ask that you support our efforts by joining us (www.WomenInTrucking.org) as we create this positive change.

What about the leadership teams? In the United States, women currently comprise 7.4 percent of all CEOs in Fortune 500 companies and about 26 percent of all board seats, despite recent legislation to establish diversity quotas.

Ellen Voie President/CEO/Founder of Women In Trucking, Inc. ellen@womenintrucking.org www.womenintrucking.org

The Freightwaves survey found that female executives in trucking make up 36 percent of the leadership in transportation and just over 45 percent of non-executive employees.

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Mission: Women In Trucking was established to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the trucking industry.

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Pride Group Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Speaking from Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,15 Stage Door Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Total Logsitics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 TRANSAM Carriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trans-Frt McNamara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Trans-West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Travelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Truckdriver.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Women in Trucking Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,19 Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada . . . . . . . . 11

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WOMEN IN TRUCKING

SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE

MAKING YOUR MILES COUNT