British Columbia Trucking Association
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Promote legislation, regulations, programs and policies that are necessary, effective, fair, enforced consistently, and don't impose unreasonable financial or administrative burdens on motor carriers. This includes seeking amendments to the B.C. Commercial Transport Act, B.C. Commercial Transport Regulations, Commercial Transport Fees Regulation, Motor Vehicle Act, Motor Vehicle Act Regulations and B.C. Commercial Transport Procedures Manual to promote safety through such means as mandating use of speed limiters and electronic logging devices, a review of speed limits on provincial roads with the general intent to change speed limits on highways that have a disproportionately high incidence of serious crashes, cannabis legislation, regulations and policies to ensure carriers have the tools necessary to protect their drivers and the public, infrastructure upgrades that will make our roads safer and more efficient, establishment of a minimum standards for entry-level training for Class 1 drivers that allows for access to training funding, improve the commercial driver licensing test standard; changing the Class 1 driver license minimum age to mirror the age in most other provinces
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Awarding, amendment or termination of any contract, grant or financial benefit by or on behalf of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly, Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Advanced Education, Cannabis, Employment and Training, Finances and Budgets, Infrastructure, Transportation
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Promoting economic development and trade through such means as: infrastructure upgrades that will help attract and retain qualified drivers; establishing high-load corridors; review of the Container Trucking Act and supporting regulations; promoting a competitive tax, revenue and insurance rate framework for the commercial transportation industry by such means as expanding Provincial Sales Tax (PST) credits to include capital expenditures for our industry in the same manner as the Production Machinery and Equipment (PM&E) PST exemption, restoring the PST exemption for trailers that are primarily used with multi-jurisdictional vehicles (MJVs), directing the Consumer Taxation Branch and ICBC to stop collecting the MJV tax when a vehicle in re-licensed in the same fleet in the same term; and promoting effective and fair workers compensation legislation.
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Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation, Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Awarding, amendment or termination of any contract, grant or financial benefit by or on behalf of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Economic Development and Trade, Finances and Budgets, Infrastructure, Insurance, Taxation and Finance, Transportation
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Seeking support for motor carriers and motor coach operators affected by COVID-19 in the form of: extensions to meet regulatory requirements; payment deferrals or forgiveness on insurance, utilities, licence fees, taxes, etc.; loans to assist with cash flow and fixed costs; direct financial support or other support for the tourism industry; development of safe operating procedures of carriers to support compliance of motor carriers/motor coaches with existing regulations and with measures in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19; policies to allow for the continuation of employers' use of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Awarding, amendment or termination of any contract, grant or financial benefit by or on behalf of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation, Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly
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COVID-19, Finances and Budgets, Taxation and Finance, Tourism, Transportation
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To promote measures that are good for the environment in support of CleanBC by such means as accelerating the turnover of heavy-duty commercial vehicles, incenting/allowing for the use of greenhouse gas (GHG) reducing technology, driver training for improved fuel efficiency, and advocating for infrastructure upgrades that reduce traffic congestion and stop-and-go traffic movements, and advising on the development and implementation of land based spill response regulations (Environmental Management Act, Spill Preparedness, Response and Recovery Regulations, Spill Reporting Regulations, Spill Contingency Planning Regulations, etc.)
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly, Awarding, amendment or termination of any contract, grant or financial benefit by or on behalf of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Employment and Training, Environment, Finances and Budgets, Infrastructure, Transportation
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