{"id":517683,"date":"2021-11-23T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T02:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517683"},"modified":"2021-11-23T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T02:02:42","slug":"a-trucking-nightmare-supply-chain-horrors-feared-as-thousands-of-unvaccinated-drivers-wont-be-allowed-to-cross-u-s-canada-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517683","title":{"rendered":"A trucking nightmare: Supply chain horrors feared as thousands of unvaccinated drivers won\u2019t be allowed to cross U.S.-Canada border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-block-container\"><em><strong>The head of a trucking industry association says thousands of Canadian truckers won\u2019t be vaccinated against COVID-19 by a deadline imposed by governments on both sides of the border, throwing a supply chain already stretched thin by the global pandemic into even more chaos.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cThis is making a bad situation a lot worse. It\u2019s the perfect storm,\u201d said Stephen Laskowski, president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">A mid-January deadline for the vaccine mandate was announced by the U.S. in mid-October. Last week, Canada announced a Jan. 15 deadline for truckers crossing into this country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">Based on reports from trucking companies, Laskowski estimates that up to 20 per cent of the 120,000 Canadian truckers who regularly cross into the U.S. might not be vaccinated by the time the deadline rolls around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cEven if every single company gets their vaccination rates up to 90 per cent, that\u2019s still 12,000 drivers,\u201d said Laskowski, who\u2019s calling on both governments to delay the deadline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlycanadanews.com\/a-trucking-nightmare-supply-chain-horrors-feared-as-thousands-of-unvaccinated-drivers-wont-be-allowed-to-cross-u-s-canada-border\/\">https:\/\/onlycanadanews.com\/a-trucking-nightmare-supply-chain-horrors-feared-as-thousands-of-unvaccinated-drivers-wont-be-allowed-to-cross-u-s-canada-border\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of a trucking industry association says thousands of Canadian truckers won\u2019t be vaccinated against COVID-19 by a deadline imposed by governments on both sides of the border, throwing a supply chain already stretched thin by the global pandemic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}