{"id":3834,"date":"2022-01-25T21:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2022-01-25T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:07:20","slug":"canadian-trucking-greets-u-s-border-vaccine-mandate-with-trepidation-and-shrugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/canadian-trucking-greets-u-s-border-vaccine-mandate-with-trepidation-and-shrugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Trucking Greets U.S. Border Vaccine Mandate with Trepidation \u2014 and Shrugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many cross-border trucking companies in Canada, Ontario-based Star Van Systems feared it would lose a chunk of its drivers \u2013 up to 15% \u2013 to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect at the U.S. border\u00a0on Saturday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But something happened as the deadline approached: Drivers started getting vaccinated, said General Manager Brenden Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of guys have made the choice to end up getting vaccinated or are now in the process of that,\u201d Smith said. \u201cSo we\u2019re only expected to lose about, I\u2019d say, 3% to 4% of our drivers over this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Smith isn\u2019t that worried about the mandate. The 100-truck carrier, which specializes in hauling fresh produce between the U.S. and Canada, is still able to meet its commitments to customers, he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear just how typical Star Van Systems is among Canadian trucking companies, as it may take weeks to fully understand how many unvaccinated drivers elect to stay that way.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_90feb58d-8043-4f7f-835c-efe27abe430d&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq6cwk5d5kpgx3qc5v6awtecdqpubvecnvq6bv3c5q62t39c5q2ux3jenhppubecwppewk5cnu76bbnecpp4vvjchjq4bbpc5hp6ubecmppurbechgq8t9dexmq8u1deht6aw39chgq8ubfdrpp2vk45ntpgwkncxtkyxbmdnfp6rbde1gpjtve7njm4xbcdhjq8ubebwt34c1h68ujcxbmdnfputb4d5upufb5dngpjv16enu6uqvkdxuq4rv57ngqax3fe1mprvvm&amp;n=4\">article from FreightWaves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many cross-border trucking companies in Canada, Ontario-based Star Van Systems feared it would lose a chunk of its drivers \u2013 up to 15% \u2013 to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect at the U.S. border\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[114],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-star-van-systems-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3835,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}