The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers
Oct 19, 2026 · 13 min · 13 segments
 **Highlights from PTTAC 2026 in Saskatoon…
Bruce OutridgeHost
They actually started a couple years ago, but they kind of launched a year ago, helping... wanting to improve the training side of the industry, and Red Seal was the way to go.

It was a one-day conference with lots of other things going on and some really interesting panels, which you're going to see here and in some of the episodes we've got coming up this week.

They started right off the bat with opening remarks from Chairman Don McDonald, but then they went into probably the most, I'm going to say the most important conversation, and that was the one from Scott Thomas.

Now, his son was killed in the Humboldt bus crash, and I've seen Scott do this story a few times, and and uh it was it was really well so he was one of the favorites they actually gave him an award uh this year for what he's doing to change the industry because i think i'm not sure it would have been impactful without him uh so uh that was uh very very cool to do that um then they uh they had an industry leadership panel the value of association so this is a lot of the associations that work with ptac and if you're not sure who ptac is it's the professional truck training alliance of canada They had, let's see, they had Curry Shimron is what they called him.

And they had Chris McGee, who is with the Atlantic Provinces Association, Trucking Association.

So they were on a panel talking about how training and how the Red Seal and how all of that is going to affect parts of the industry and the future of it.

Great leadership fireside chat talking about changing mindset and changing management.

They actually started a couple years ago, but they kind of launched a year ago, helping... wanting to improve the training side of the industry, and Red Seal was the way to go.

It was a one-day conference with lots of other things going on and some really interesting panels, which you're going to see here and in some of the episodes we've got coming up this week.

They started right off the bat with opening remarks from Chairman Don McDonald, but then they went into probably the most, I'm going to say the most important conversation, and that was the one from Scott Thomas.

Now, his son was killed in the Humboldt bus crash, and I've seen Scott do this story a few times, and and uh it was it was really well so he was one of the favorites they actually gave him an award uh this year for what he's doing to change the industry because i think i'm not sure it would have been impactful without him uh so uh that was uh very very cool to do that um then they uh they had an industry leadership panel the value of association so this is a lot of the associations that work with ptac and if you're not sure who ptac is it's the professional truck training alliance of canada They had, let's see, they had Curry Shimron is what they called him.

And they had Chris McGee, who is with the Atlantic Provinces Association, Trucking Association.

So they were on a panel talking about how training and how the Red Seal and how all of that is going to affect parts of the industry and the future of it.

Great leadership fireside chat talking about changing mindset and changing management.
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