Sask fleet shuttered one year after hitting the road

REGINA — The ever-weakening economy has taken out yet another trucking company — this time, one of the bigger carriers in Saskatchewan.

SynLogistics — created just one year ago when Regina-based carriers, the Schneider Group and beverage hauler Prudhomme Trucks, agreed to merge — has shut its doors, according to a CBC report.

Following the merger, SynLogistics had about 200 power units and 275 employees. The company combined dry van services from Prudhomme and mainly flatdeck and warehousing operations from Schneider.

A message left today for company officials by todaystrucking.com was not returned.

Prudhomme, whose president Denis Prudhomme was president of the Saskatchewan Trucking Association last year, had been one of the more active companies involved in recruiting foreign drivers through the provincial nominee program.

Interviewed last year by Today’s Trucking for a feature on foreign drivers, Prudhomme said he routinely brought truckers to Saskatchewan from the Ukraine.

One of those drivers, Alex Nazim, told the CBC that he and other drivers hadn’t gotten paid in three weeks. He said he was told Wednesday the company was shut down, with no explanation as to why.

The next day, Yanke Transport — arguably Canada’s most experienced foreign driver recruiter — offered to take on some of the former SynLogistics truckers.