Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image Crude and gasoline prices about to go for a serious nosedive by Roger McKnight Late yesterday afternoon the American Petroleum Institute (API) released their U.S. inventory viewpoint saying that national U.S. crude levels increased by 12.0 million bbls for the week…
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image The financials of opting for rail to move Alberta crude to tidewater markets by Roger McKnight It happened again – Every February ends up being the shortest month of the year that seems to take two months to end! So I cashed in all of my…
Jimmy Sandhu Author Gravatar Image Health & Safety Work safely near forklifts by Jimmy Sandhu A 36-year-old man died of his injuries after being hit by a forklift in Delta, BC on January 20, 2015. “Emergency responders were not able to help the man, who…
Ray Haight Author Gravatar Image Don’t confuse working in your business with working on your business? by Ray Haight I know from personal experience and talking to many business owners in trucking that they work very hard within their businesses and they find it hard to find enough time…
Jim Park Author Gravatar Image Industry Voices: What trucking can learn from the airlines by Jim Park For-hire trucking could learn a few things from the airlines, because they have finally figured out how to make money in a deregulated environment. Love ’em or hate ’em, commercial…
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image The veto of Keystone XL Pipeline is short sighted and egocentric and a perfect example of someone who can, and has, excelled in rhetoric but failed in reality by Roger McKnight One of the more memorable lines in TV commercial antiquity comes when the question is posed to an actor depicting an aging life insurance applicant why a certain insurance company’s…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Purolator Trucker Remains Critical After Being Rear-Ended by (allegedly) Impaired SUV Driver by Harry Rudolfs I work with 200 other tractor trailer drivers at the Metro West facility in Etobicoke, Ont. After ten years you get to know one another and we watch as kids…
Earl Galavan Author Gravatar Image Equipment Slip Sliding Along by Earl Galavan It’s amazing how we come up with answers when we don’t have any data to support them. I suppose it’s a human condition to want an answer, and so many…
Jim Park Author Gravatar Image Industry Voices: What happened to brotherhood? by Jim Park KINGSTON, ON – It’s not enough that drivers need to watch out for downright lousy car drivers, overly enthusiastic creeper-cops and dispatchers that don’t know the meaning of ‘tomorrow,’ they…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image Mike’s Rule by Rolf Lockwood One of my very best friends died in early December. He should have lived forever, because that’s what ought to happen with good guys. We need their example, their inspiration.
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image It’s All In The Delivery by Rolf Lockwood Talk about a lot of buzz. The idea of autonomously driven cars is getting an absolute ton of air play these days. Really, I can’t open my e-mail inbox without…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image More on “Uber” for trucks, and Phil Cahley gazes into the (near) future by Harry Rudolfs While Uber and its competitors are battling the taxi industry world-wide, I’m wondering how technology like this will impact the trucking industry in the very near future. As I’ve been…
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image How low will prices go? North American crude production is being maintained but tanks are filling up rapidly by Roger McKnight I am only too pleased to vocalize, and even writerize, on the foggy Bermuda Triangle of day-to-day language and how it may or may not apply to the mystifying scrambled…
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image The drop off in rig counts is the litmus test for the health of North American crude production by Roger McKnight If one train is travelling at 80 mph from one direction, and another is traveling at 100 mph from a different direction, which one gets to Albuquerque first? I remember…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Four Strong Winds….or better still oil patch blues by Harry Rudolfs How things have changed! I wrote about 10 years ago, and at the time I thought $40 barrel was ridiculous–how would that be possible? But what’s that biblical reference, turn,…
