Insights and Stories on Truckers

Canada resists pressure to drop vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers

Jan. 10, 2022 at 1:16 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing ahead with a vaccine mandate for international truckers despite increasing pressure from critics who say it will exacerbate driver shortages and drive up the price of goods imported from the United States. Canada will require all truckers entering from […]

Argentine truckers end strike, freeing China-bound barley

Feb. 9, 2021 at 8:02 pm CST

By Hugh Bronstein Maximilian Heath

Alberta offers equivalency plan, grants for aspiring truckers

Dec. 6, 2020 at 9:22 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Farm suppliers race COVID-19 spread for planting season

Mar. 26, 2020 at 5:15 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel Tom Polansek

AgDealer offers online equipment financing, shipping tools

Jan. 28, 2020 at 8:33 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Feed weekly outlook: Firm Prairie market leveling off

Nov. 28, 2019 at 3:28 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Logistics issues moving grain where it needs to be in Western Canada continue to prop up feed prices, but the market is starting to level off, according to a broker. “We are seeing a bit of a shortage of trucks,” said Tracy Green of Market Master Ltd. in […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Trucker shortage troublesome for Prairie cattle industry

Sep. 15, 2018 at 3:42 am CDT

CNS Canada — As large volumes of cattle make their way to western Canadian auction marts this fall, buyers are having problems finding truckers to haul them. Those problems may get worse in the future, as federal regulations for cattle hauling could possibly change. “I would say it’s worse this […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

May. 29, 2018 at 6:40 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supply and exports of farm produce from one of the world’s agricultural commodity powerhouses. Brazil is the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chickens. The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Latin America’s largest economy, emptied […]

By Ana Mano José Roberto Gomes

Moving freight to get more expensive for food companies

Feb. 2, 2018 at 5:26 pm CST

Reuters — U.S. food companies called out rising freight costs as a reason for lower profit margins in the holiday quarter, with more pain seen in 2018 as a dearth of drivers and higher diesel prices make it even more expensive to transport products to stores. Hershey, Mondelez International, J.M. […]

By Sangameswaran S

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