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It appears that with at least three big American carriers launching recruitment campaigns on Canadian turf, and huge transborder companies like Schneider National announcing plans to greatly boost their pay packages north of the border (and increase time-at-home opportunities too), Canadian drivers and O/Os are about to become a hot commodity on the cross border market.
As Jim Reeves, director of international operations and the point man for Louisville, Ky.-based Mercer Transportation's soon-to-be launched recruitment campaign in Ontario explains, Canadian drivers are better at performing all the tricky tasks involved with crossing the border because they do it so often.
Reeves, the only U.S. carrier representative who would...