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OTA Guiding Principles

  • For the market to work competition must be fair.
  • Fair competition means competing on service and on prices established in compliance with all laws and regulations.
  • Laws and regulations are a fact of life and that by taking responsible positions and reasonable and informed – yet firm – approaches to policy-makers and legislators, the industry can influence the development of laws and regulations to ensure they are effective, efficient, equally applied, balanced and designed to deal with real concerns not just paperwork or administrative matters.
  • Compliance with all laws and regulations should be encouraged by a balanced mix of sanctions/penalties and incentives.
  • Enforcement of sanctions and penalties should be effective, even and efficient.
  • Because we share our workplace with the public, we accept an added responsibility to ensure that we operate in accordance with the highest standards of safety and environmental stewardship; that we are members of the communities in which we operate.
  • Speeding and aggressive driving are unsafe, wasteful and publicly unacceptable on-road behaviour that will not be tolerated and that all management effort and the full force of the law (including all practical enforcement means) should be used to eradicate them.
  • Systems need to be developed and enhanced to identify the truly habitual bad operators and ensure they face added scrutiny and penalties – including the loss of operating privileges – while those carriers that operate safely receive benefits and incentives which provide tangible competitive advantages.
  • The trucking industry is above all else a people industry; our employees are our most valued assets and when they succeed, we succeed.
  • The modern workplace is evolving and it is in carriers’ interest to better understand the needs of our employees and provide them with the tools, training, resources and incentive to meet them.
  • By their actions, operating practices and business philosophies all carriers -- and through them all industry participants -- have a role to play in helping to shape a more positive public perception of the trucking industry.
  • The industry and its employees should attain the recognition and respectful treatment they deserve – from other carriers, government, shippers, consignees and the motoring public -- for their essential contribution to the economic and social fabric of the province and the country.
  • A vibrant supply chain is vital to the health and development of our economies, and society in general. The industry has proven resilient in surviving the past couple of decades. The question we must ask is: Can we be as resourceful and innovative in shaping the future, as we are reacting to circumstances in the past?


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