Gord Magill
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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You know, chaining down loads, tarping loads, learning how to do things correctly.
So for a couple of years, you know, Hamilton, Toronto, Southern Ontario, then they let me go a little ways further, Montreal, Detroit, then a little further away again.
And then eventually, you know, I did the whole cross country OTR thing.
I've been to all 48 continental states.
What's OTR mean?
Over the road.
That's the sort of industry slang for people who go far away and spend days and weeks away from home hauling the really long haul stuff long distance.
What's that like?
I mean, it's an interesting sort of lifestyle.
It's not for everybody.
You know, you have to be...
psychologically in tune with yourself and happy in your own company because you spend an awful lot of time by yourself in the truck.
You also have to have a certain inner strength to deal with just all the problems you get.
A big issue in trucking is detention time.
You'll show up at places to get loaded or unloaded and they take two hours, four hours, six hours, an entire day.
For many drivers, they don't get paid for that.
And that's sort of one of the sources of this claim that there's a driver shortage.
It's actually a capacity utilization problem.
And this was studied by a guy at MIT named David Carell, who told the Biden administration in 2021, by the way, that we don't need to import more drivers from overseas or expand issues of CDL.
You just need to get the trucks moving, right?
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