Thousands of truckers prepared to walk due to vaccine mandates, warn Canadian trucking groups

Canadian trucking industry groups are warning the Canadian government that supply chain challenges will get worse unless there are changes to upcoming COVID-19 vaccination mandates.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) says it estimates that up to 22 thousand Canadian drivers will decide to leave the Canada-U.S. market when the Canadian government’s planned cross-border vaccination mandate takes effect on January 15, 2022.

Based on a recent survey of its members, the CTA says many trucking companies are preparing to lose 10 to 20 per cent of their drivers, and potentially more than 20 per cent in regions of the country with lower vaccination rates.

“There are also pockets of fleets throughout Canada with vaccine rates well below the 80 per cent vaccination rate floor, CTA members have reported. Vaccination rates below 80 per cent would lead to significant service disruptions…,” says the CTA, in a Dec. 8 update.

#SupplyChain #Canada

https://www.realagriculture.com/2021/12/thousands-of-truckers-prepared-to-walk-due-to-vaccine-mandates-warn-canadian-trucking-groups/

DELIBERATE throttling of #SupplyChain:

Mississauga, Ont., truck driver Nawaz Khan said he makes two to three trips across the U.S. border each week, transporting building supplies.

However, Khan’s FAST card, which clears him for customs when crossing, recently expired. This required him to drive to the U.S. in his personal vehicle to get it renewed. He was there for less than 45 minutes. “I did the interview, I came back to the Canadian side,” Khan said. When he returned, border agents told Khan he had to quarantine for two weeks, despite being fully vaccinated.

“I was shocked,” he said. “I have to park my rig for almost a month,” he said. “I don’t believe I have done anything wrong.”

With vaccinated essential workers being forced into quarantine, Shields said this could lead to supply chain issues ahead of the holidays.

#Canada

https://globalnews.ca/news/8426977/ontario-truck-driver-vaccinated-forced-quarantine/

Trucker warns the vaccine requirements for Canada/USA border crossings will result in at least 15% of big rigs being parked.

This is deliberate sabotage of the #SupplyChain and WILL be felt by folks in Canada and USA: empty shelves, food prices, lack of supplies for industry to function, lack of seeds/fertilizer for agriculture, and so on.

This is how civilization ends. Not, perhaps, with a bang, but instead a cascading series of failures and degeneracy …

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Trucker warns the vaccine requirements for Canada/USA border crossings will result in at least 15% of big rigs being parked.

This is deliberate sabotage of the #SupplyChain and WILL be felt by folks in Canada and USA: empty shelves, food prices, lack of supplies for industry to function, lack of seeds/fertilizer for agriculture, and so on.

This is how civilization ends. Not, perhaps, with a bang, but instead a cascading series of failures and degeneracy …

#Canada #USA

Grocery store closures loom amid labour, product shortages - Canada

Grocery stores are struggling with rising labour and product shortages that could threaten Canada's food security, experts say.

Employee absenteeism due to workers calling in sick and COVID-19 protocols has hit about 30 per cent at some stores and is continuing to rise, Gary Sands, senior vice-president of public policy with the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, said Tuesday.

If the situation worsens, some grocery stores won't be able to stay open — threatening food security in rural and remote areas that rely on a sole independent grocer, Sands said.

"If we have to keep sending people home, at a certain point stores are not going to be able to operate," he said. "We're very frustrated with the lack of rapid test kits for grocers."

"Independent grocers are in a myriad of communities in this country where there is no other grocery store," Sands said. "If those stores close, you've got a food security issue."

Meanwhile, stores are also experiencing a shortage of goods stemming from supply chain issues, including a shortage of truckers, packaging and processing delays and the Canadian winter.

But some supply chain issues could be longer lasting, such as the trucker shortage intensified by the federal government's new vaccine mandate.

"The issue with the truckers having to be vaccinated is causing some delays, especially with the supply of fruit and vegetables from California," Sands said.

#SupplyChain #Canada

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/grocery-store-closures-loom-amid-labour-product-shortages/ar-AASUbXm

Alberta: cattle feeders face increasingly desperate feed shortage.

“Several larger feedlots have indicated that they will run out of all feed in a few days.”

This is beyond catastrophic, with 1.5 million cattle unable to secure feed.

#WarOnMeat

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Elevators working in reverse as Alberta cattle feeders face increasingly desperate feed shortage.

“It’s a mess,” notes Kevin Serfas, of Serfas Farms, based at Turin, Alta. “If you only bought exactly what you needed on a week-to-week basis, you are in panic mode right now. I started November 1 and probably have half my orders. I’m not sure what needs to change. Everyone just blames the prior link in the chain.”

That chain includes grain companies, railways and railways, as well as trucking companies.

In some cases, grain handlers, such as Cargill, P&H, Richardson, and Viterra, are essentially trying to run their elevators in reverse. Rather than taking delivery from producers and loading grain onto trains, they are taking delivery of corn by train and transferring it onto trucks to fill sales contracts they’ve signed with cattle feeders — many of which are the same producers who otherwise sell grain to these companies.

Labour shortages, due to COVID-19 and more, have exacerbated the challenge in some situations, causing delays with loading and unloading trains and trucks. Several feedlots say delays in unloading trains have resulted in the railway putting a lower priority on these shipments. In some cases, they’ve been penalized financially with demurrage fees. [IAF: Stunning that the railway can simply stop shipping animal feed.]

There’s also concern the Canadian and U.S. government’s cross-border vaccination mandates, taking effect January 15 and 22, respectively, are removing a significant number of truck drivers from the road. Several sources told RealAgriculture they’ve also heard of a train being delayed due to crew members not wanting to have to quarantine in Canada.

To put the amount of feed that’s needed in context, ACFA says one rail car — the equivalent of approximately two super B trailers — will feed approximately 8,000 head of cattle for one day. There are approximately 1.5 million head in the province, meaning the industry requires more than a 100 unit train every day to replace the barley and wheat that would normally be sourced closer to home.

#Canada #SupplyChain

https://realagriculture.com/2022/01/elevators-working-in-reverse-as-alberta-cattle-feeders-face-increasingly-desperate-feed-shortage/

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