AMTA  E-News

April  2010

New Member Benefit: Dental, Health &  Insurance Program for Lease Operators

The Alberta Motor Transport Association is pleased to announce the formation of a new affinity program, Truxplan, with Unigroup Inc. (www.unigroup.ca). Unigroup is a long time associate member of the AMTA and is well-known to many of the membership.

For years there has been a tendency for employers to add lease operators to corporate benefit plans as the only option for reasonable and affordable coverage. This is no longer wise due to the tightening of tax legislation. The AMTA has created along with Unigroup, a program for trucker groups of two or more to address this problem.

Coverages that are available include group life, AD&D, Dependent Life as well as optional short-and long-term disability plans.

Also contained in the plan is an extended health and dental program offering drug cards, vision care, an employee assistance program and out-of-Canada coverage. In addition, a Critical Illness program is included covering 21 diseases such as heart attack and cancer.
Truxplan will also offer traditional programs to fleets involving a variety of options including self-insurance on health and dental programs.

Watch AMTA’s web site in the weeks’ ahead for links to more detailed information about the new program offerings. In the meantime, should members wish more information about the program and how it might work for them, please call Carmen McCullough at 1-800-292-9066 for details.