Canada’s Longest Road to Justice
Exploitation. Up to $5.2 billion in tax fraud. Dangerous roads.
This is what you get with Driver Inc.
Across Canada, rogue trucking companies break the law - misclassifying drivers, dodging taxes, and putting untrained, unpaid workers behind the wheel of 140,000-pound trucks.
Picture driving your kids to school. A huge truck swerves into your lane. The driver? On their second day, forced to train others, with no proper oversight.
This is real. It’s happening now. The federal government’s response? They refuse to take action to protect Canadians’ safety and jobs. They’ve had the evidence for years, ignored it, and now we’re all paying the price.
If the government won’t act, we must.
Join the campaign today and tell the Carney government to stop lawlessness!
The Cost of Inaction
$5.2 billion lost every year
That’s the estimated annual cost of Driver Inc. and the underground trucking economy - a system built on tax evasion, misclassification, and abuse. This is money meant for hospitals, schools, roads, and the public services we all rely on. Over the past decade, this may have cost the government up to $52 billion and if left unchecked, the losses could hit $120 billion by 2035.
A rigged system hurting everyone
Driver Inc. companies illegally pocket an average of $22,000 per misclassified driver every year - taxes they skip out on by dodging taxes and benefit contributions. Meanwhile, the average driver loses over $6,300 annually in wages and federally mandated benefits like employment insurance, paid leave, and CPP contributions. It’s a system where cheaters win and everyone else pays the price.
A safety crisis rolling down our highways
When untrained, unpaid workers are thrown behind the wheel of 140,000-pound trucks, we all face the consequences. Some of these drivers are on their first or second day, forced to train others with little to no formal instruction. Others are newcomers misled by fake promises, too afraid to speak out for fear of losing their immigration status.
The result: unqualified drivers behind the wheel of massive trucks, driving on the same roads as you and your family and no one held accountable.
Widespread abuse and no real enforcement
In some provinces, nearly 1 in 2 truck drivers are now demanding to work in the underground economy. Misclassification rates are surging, two-thirds of Personal Service Businesses (PSBs) classifications are applied illegally. And during enforcement blitzes, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has uncovered non-compliance rates as high as 50–60%. Yet the federal government continues to turn a blind eye.
This isn’t just a few bad apples.
It’s a crisis by design.
Honest Carriers Are Being Wiped Out
Legal trucking companies who follow the rules - paying their taxes, protecting their workers, and maintaining proper safety standards are being driven out of business.
Why? Because they’re forced to compete with carriers that break every rule in the book.
Driver Inc. operators dodge taxes, deny benefits, misclassify workers, and skip essential safety protocols. That lets them slash their operating costs by up to 30% and stack the deck against honest operators. .
It’s not a level playing field. It’s a race to the bottom.
The result? Good companies are shutting their doors. Family-run carriers with decades of experience are laying off staff. New Canadians trying to build legitimate businesses are told they won’t survive unless they “go underground” too.
When lawbreakers are rewarded, compliance becomes a disadvantage. The message to businesses is clear: Do the right thing, and you’ll end up having to close your doors for business.
Our federal government stands by, letting this happen, they’re not just failing the industry – they're failing every worker, every small business, and every Canadian who believes in having a fair shot at the Canadian dream.
In the News
Alberta Cracks Down on Unsafe Trucking: Schools Closed, Carriers Pulled Off the Road
Net News Ledger
Alberta has announced new rules, audits, investigations, and other measures to crack down on the transport truck sector, including driver training.
Truck driver industry crackdown coming in budget to target ‘Drivers Inc.’
Global News
The federal government is promising to crack down on allegations of widespread fraud in the trucking industry, a phenomenon that has become known as “Driver Inc.”
Federal budget promises to lift T4A moratorium in bid to stamp out Driver Inc.
Truck News
The federal government says it will lift the moratorium on T4A forms in an effort to stamp out the misclassification of truck drivers, a scheme labeled within the industry as Driver Inc.
If We Don’t Draw the Line Here, There May Be No Line Left to Draw
Join the campaign. Email your MP.
Demand enforcement. Demand fairness. Demand action.
Together, we can restore safety, justice, and pride to Canada’s roads and put an end to this national disgrace.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE STOP TAX AND LABOUR ABUSE CAMPAIGN, SUPPORTED BY THE CANADIAN TRUCKING ALLIANCE
