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Sudhanshu Malhotra
Riding High
By Abdul Latheef
BRAMPTON, Ontario
Sudhanshu Malhotra has an insatiable appetite for news, trucking industry news that is.
“My day starts with trucks and ends with trucks,” he said of his news-browsing habit during a chat with Road Today.
Just a few years ago, Malhotra knew nothing about the industry. Now, as the fleet manager at energy drink distrib- utor Powerbev, he is one of the few millennials who have whole-heartedly embraced trucking.
Malhotra’s journey began in 2014, when he arrived in Canada from India as an international student pursuing busi- ness management studies at Lambton College in Sarnia, Ont.
The business course made sense because he already had a bachelor’s degree in commerce, and both his father and grandfather were accountants in Ludhiana, a city in the northwestern state of Punjab.
An overwhelming majority of Indian immigrants in the North American trucking industry is from Punjab.
Malhotra, 31, got a big break soon after finishing school when he found a co-op position as a safety compliance admin- istrator with the trucking consulting firm ABS SafeCom in Mississauga, Ont.
Until then he had no interest in trucking, and unlike many of his compatriots, none of his relatives was in trucking.
“Nobody was in trucking, (I was) never asked to be in truck- ing, and I didn’t want to be in trucking at all at the beginning,” Malhotra said. In fact, he said he wasn’t even aware that the industry was “that big.”
“Now I love this thing. I cannot stay away from trucking.” Always itching for more knowledge, Malhotra attends mul-
tiple events each year and takes courses that helps improve his skills.
Last June, he was among the 12 young leaders graduating from the Driven to Lead Program, affiliated to the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada.
And later this year, he plans to take a course on risk man- agement at the University of Toronto.
At Powerbev, Malhotra manages fleet budgets, insurance, acquisition and maintenance. The company has a mixed fleet of more than 200 vehicles.
“Whatever happens to the fleet nationwide comes to me.” A regular in trucking’s social circuit, Malhotra volunteers
for several organizations.
He is also the only man on the board of the Women’s
Trucking Federation of Canada, an organization based
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