This week on Canada Calling, host Jimmy Mac checks in with Joanne Ritchie and Jim Park from the Owner-Operator’s Business Association of Canada (OBAC) for the latest updates from north of the border.

Joanne kicks things off with a big shoutout to regular Canada Calling caller Starduster, who helped raise nearly $14,000 for the Nova Scotia Truck Convoy for Special Olympics — part of a record-breaking event that brought together over 200 trucks and raised $185,000, making it the largest convoy in North America! She also recaps the other Canadian Special Olympics convoys in Ontario and Manitoba, where truckers came together once again to support Special Olympics athletes.

Jim Park then turns to the industry front, with updates from British Columbia and Alberta, where both provinces are cracking down on fraudulent truck training schools. Several unsafe training operations have already been shut down as part of the effort to clean up the industry.

Read more: TruckNews.com - Alberta shuts down five unsafe truck driver training schools

Jim also opens a lively discussion on driver training in the age of automation — asking: Have automated transmissions “dumbed down” the process, or is there still real value in learning on a manual?

Read more: TruckNews.com - Is there still value in learning to drive on trucks with manual transmissions?

Catch all that and more on Canada Calling — your go-to source for trucking news and stories from across Canada.

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http://www.obac.ca/Web/

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