Impact Report 2025
Defining moments: Successes in workforce strategy
DEFINING MOMENTS:
IN WORKFORCE
For Canada’s trucking and logistics sector, global trade uncertainty, labour misclassification, and persistent workforce pressures collided with emerging opportunities for growth. In the face of this complexity, Trucking HR Canada remained focused on what mattered most: delivering decision-critical workforce and skills intelligence, practical programs employers could put to work immediately, and trusted partnerships that strengthened the sector as a whole.
Throughout the year, we also brought the industry together—amplifying the voice of a sector that employs nearly 800,000 Canadians, half of whom are truck drivers, and that plays a vital role in keeping Canada’s supply chain moving.
This impact report highlights the initiatives, insights, and collaborations that defined our work in 2025. We are proud to have supported the sector through a period of significant change and uncertainty, and we invite you to reflect on the progress we made— together.
LEADERSHIP
Angela Splinter, Chief Executive Officer
Craig Faucette, Chief Operating Officer
Rebecka Freels, Chief Communications Officer
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
→ Jason Libralesso, (Chair), Transportation Consultant (ON)
→ Angelique Magi (Vice Chair), Vice President –Head of Insurance, Element Fleet Management (ON)
→ Carla Kaneski, Chief Financial Officer, Arnold Bros. Transport Ltd. (MB)
→ Heather Mewhinney, Director HR, Kriska Transportation Group (ON)
→ Stacey Miller, Director HR, RST Sunbury Transport (Atlantic)
→ Sherry Mossman, President, Northern Resource Trucking (SK)
→ Stephen Newton, Senior Director, Risk Management, Challenger Motor Freight Inc. (ON)
→ Judy Ostiguy, VP, Human Resources, C.A.T. Inc. (PQ)
→ Geoff Topping, Chief People Officer, Fastfrate Group (ON)
ABOUT TRUCKING HR CANADA
What we do
Trucking HR Canada is the national authority on workforce strategy for Canada’s trucking and logistics sector. As the sector’s workforce development council, we deliver evidence-based solutions that help employers attract, train, and retain the people who power Canada’s supply chain.
Funding
Trucking HR Canada is an independent, non-profit organization funded through a mix of labour market research and analysis, competitively awarded project contracts, strategic partnerships, and revenue generated through flagship initiatives.
Vision and mission
→ Vision
A competitive and sustainable supply chain
→ Mission
To advance modern, evidence-based HR solutions that ensure Canada’s road transportation sector has a skilled and engaged workforce—today and into the future.
Our reach in 2025
10,000+ trucking and logistics professionals subscribed to THRC’s weekly newsletter
13,000+ professionals following THRC across social media platforms
Active engagement with employers across all 10 provinces and 3 territories
Thousands of employers and stakeholders engaged through Webinar Wednesdays
THRC AT A GLANCE TOP PICKS: WHAT EMPLOYERS USED
MOST
In a year shaped by workforce uncertainty and rapid change, employers consistently turned to THRC for clarity, capability, and confidence. The resources below reflect where attention, and action, was focused.
→ Funds for Fleets
A digital guide helping trucking and logistics employers identify and access government financial incentive programs across Canada.
→ Driver Training Resources
First launched in 2024, THRC’s suite of 16 driver training tools climbed the rankings in 2025, with over 25,000+ employer downloads.
TOP PICKS: WHAT EMPLOYERS USED MOST
TOP WEBINARS
1. Trump, trucking, tariffs, turmoil – executive briefing with Abacus Data’s David Coletto and THRC’s Angela Splinter
2. TFE Series Part 1: Inside private fleet powerhouses with PMTC
3. TFE Series Part 2: What Canada’s TFE are doing right
4. Navigating employee leaves
5. Safer workplaces, stronger teams: Preventing negative interactions that drive turnover
MOST VISITED WEBSITE PAGES
Flagship programs
→ Top Fleet Employers
→ Women with Drive
→ Women’s Leadership Accord
Career pathways and talent development
→ Career ExpressWay
→ Career GPS
→ Student Work Placement Program (Career ExpressWay)
→ Take Our Kids to Work Day
MOST READ CEO
COMMENTARY
HR, training, and workforce resources
→ HR and training resources
→ Truck driver training resources
→ Labour market information
Workforce strategy and labour trends
→ Key trends and insights for the trucking workforce in 2025
→ Labour challenges are now opportunities
→ C-suite pulse check reveals the sector’s top concerns
Talent attraction and retention
→ Why top fleet employers are winning the talent game
→ Shifting gears: how industry leaders can attract the talent they’re missing
→ Back to basics: how top employers stay ahead
Economic and regional realities
→ Big ideas for a renewed economy won’t succeed without trucking
→ Big pay, bigger perks: Alberta fleets respond to hiring pressures
→ Alberta fleets boost pay to attract new drivers
TOP FLEET EMPLOYERS
How industry excellence was recognized
The year saw growth in the Top Fleet Employer program as we unveiled the largest cohort of fleets in the program’s 12-year history.
The Top Fleet Employer Awards
Gala
TFE is Canada’s national benchmark and recognition for organizations that make trucking and logistics a great place to work. A total of 108 fleets are currently recognized; awards are presented annually for exceptional category performance.
Launched in 2025
Samsara-THRC Top Fleet Employers scholarship
Top Fleet Employers swag and trailer wrap shop
WOMEN WITH DRIVE
Leadership development and networking
THRC offers leadership development and networking to help employers recruit and retain women, support their career choices and enhance the industry’s appeal to job seekers.
Women with Drive Leadership Summit
A networking and educational event for careerfocused leaders and developing leaders — men and women — committed to advancing the participation of women.
Western Women with Drive
THRC delivers regional events to improve accessibility for busy professionals across Canada. WWWD rotates across the western provinces, offering high-quality education, networking, and leadership insights.
Women’s Leadership Accord
THRC launched the Women’s Leadership Accord in 2025 to spotlight organizations leading the way in creating great workplaces for women.
Women with Drive Hits the Road
Our popular WWD Hits the Road functions are casual after-work networking sessions designed to provide the latest updates on workforce development, leadership and THRC research and activities.
In 2025, 48 organizations signed on to the Accord and earned a Certificate of Excellence.
BUILDING A TALENT PIPELINE
CAREER SEEKERS BY PROVINCE
Work-integrated learning critical to Canada’s innovation economy, youth employment
Through delivery of the federal Student Work Placement Program (SWPP), THRC has helped employers build capacity while providing post-secondary students with paid, hands-on experience that prepares them for careers in trucking and logistics.
Since 2021, THRC has disbursed more than $8 million, supporting over 250 employer-work engagements and placing 1,670 students in roles that often would not exist without this funding.
“Several students have transitioned into full-time roles post-graduation, helping us build a resilient and forwardthinking team.”
— CBCL Limited
“UFA’s participation has proven to be a fantastic partnership, creating opportunities for post-secondary students to learn and develop their skillsets within the business. This program has been a win-win.”
— United Farmers of Alberta
“The wage subsidy enabled us to hire skilled interns who made meaningful contributions to our team. The program not only strengthened our workforce but also gave students valuable exposure to the industry.”
— GFL
LABOUR & SKILLS INTELLIGENCE
Trucking HR Canada is the sector’s most trusted source of workforce intelligence for trucking and logistics. Our specialist team analyzes customized Statistics Canada labour market data and insights from the customized THRC Employer Survey to provide employers, policymakers, and job seekers with reliable, decision-ready intelligence.
Key findings
→ Q1 2025 report shows sector unloads 25,000 jobs
→ Latest national job vacancy update shows driver vacancies are flattening Q1
→ Truck driver jobs outpace labour market in October, while sector loses ground
→ Unemployment down slightly for trucking and logistics; rate for drivers remains lower than national rate
→ Alberta trucking industry attracting new drivers despite hiring hurdles: June survey
→ Alberta sheds nearly 11,000 driving jobs in Q2, data show
KEY MOMENTS
Trucking HR Canada delivered workforce solutions at moments that mattered most — advancing equity, strengthening talent pipelines, informing decisionmaking, and elevating the sector’s voice.
→ Taking aim at employee misclassification (Ottawa): THRC testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities on the Driver Inc. model, advocating for fair labour practices.
→ Bringing employer priorities forward (Toronto): The Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Labour Minister (second from left), with THRC board member Geoff Topping, Future Fastfrate (far left); THRC’s CEO Angela Splinter and COO Craig Faucette.
→ Budget 2025 investments: THRC staff joined The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families, to advance funding to strengthen employment opportunities for youth and a robust talent pipeline for employers.
→ Briefing on Ontario finances (Toronto): CEO Angela Splinter with The Honourable Caroline Mulroney, President of the Treasury Board of Ontario.
→ Recognition for advancing women in the workplace: Rosenau Transport, a GLS company, signs onto the Women’s Leadership Accord (Calgary). CCO Rebecka Freels with Rosenau’s Western Canada Manager.
→ Top Fleet Employers are leading workplace practices (Vancouver): Tim Hortons (TDL Group) Senior HR Manager, Supply Chain OperationsCanada West, celebrates the third consecutive year in the TFE program with CCO Rebecka Freels.
→ Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (Saskatoon): COO Craig Faucette with Alberta’s Assistant Deputy Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors, Lynn Varty (left) and Kwei Quaye, Assistant Vice President, Traffic Safety and Driver Services, SGI (right).
KEY MOMENTS
THRC supported employers nationwide during Take Our Kids to Work Day, introducing young people to careers in trucking and logistics.
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