Trucking Rates Between U.S., Canada Soar on Trade Blockade

Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg

The trucker blockade at the U.S.-Canada border ended over the weekend but efforts to tally the economic costs are still under way.

Commercial traffic resumed late Sunday along the Ambassador Bridge after the week-long standoff. A larger protest against vaccine mandates for lorry drivers has been going on for two weeks in Ottawa, where hundreds of tractor-trailers blocked downtown streets.