The Canadian Trucking Alliance told a government panel Monday it supports an amendment to the country’s Customs Act that would take some responsibility for shipments entering Canada from carriers and put it on other parties in the supply chain.
David Bradley, CTA’s chief executive officer, told a Senate committee that the trucking group supports an amendment that would allow the Governor-In-Council to prescribe who must provide information about a truck, driver and goods before the truck arrives at the border.
The change would put more responsibility on parties such as manufacturers, shippers and brokers, CTA said. But Bradley cautioned that one provision of the amendment would be costly for carriers.
That provision would require that if a truck arrived without the required information being received, the truck would be turned away. Currently, carriers are allowed to move the shipments in bond to an inland facility.
CTA supports the in bond method, the alliance said in a release, and the amendment would be costly and time consuming to carriers whose trucks are turned away at the border.
