Sonia Straface Author Gravatar Image Health & Safety What the drivers want by Sonia Straface Earlier this week I attended my first Best Fleets to Drive For seminar. For those who don’t know, Best Fleets to Drive For is a competition that highlights companies…
James Menzies Author Gravatar Image Medical marijuana and trucking by James Menzies You knew it would happen eventually. Since the federal government okayed the use of medicinal marijuana in about 2001, many Canadians have resorted to the treatment to ease the suffering…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image Transportation Registration is Now Open for the 2014 Surface Transportation Summit by Dan Goodwill For the sixth consecutive year, Dan Goodwill & Associates and the Business Information Group (publishers of Canadian Shipper and MotorTruck Fleet Executive)…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Are Temporary Foreign Truck Drivers Being Abused? Are Canadian Carriers Abusing the TFWP? by Harry Rudolfs More than one wheel seems to be coming off the Harper government after a series of failures and scandals: the nepotism and cronyism the prime minister has demonstrated by his…
Mike McCarron Author Gravatar Image CRM: Customers really matter by Mike McCarron If you’re in the transportation business you’re also in the acronym business. It’s amazing how many of them are part of our industry lingo. In fact, there are so many…
Ray Haight Author Gravatar Image Good Man Down by Ray Haight John Kaburick took Henderson Trucking from a small fleet of 30 trucks and grew that business into over 400 power units. That’s no easy feat, John had a great business…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image The “Virtual” Freight Broker has come to the Transportation Industry by Dan Goodwill This is the fourth in a series of blogs on Technology in Transportation. The three previous articles appeared in 2013 and featured 5 interesting companies, FreightSnap, Freightopolis, QuoteMyTruckload, BuyTruckload and…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Are Dash Cams a Good Idea? by Harry Rudolfs Art Ginter originally bought his dashcam so that he could show his family some of the places he goes and some of the sights he sees. He never thought it…
Ray Haight Author Gravatar Image Behavioural Modeling: New Tools for an Old Problem by Ray Haight How does a trucking company screen drivers and owner operators before recruiting them into their fleet? Some of the more progressive companies have started using social media. But, generally speaking,…
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image Canada is a commodity cornucopia for the U.S. and the rest the world by Roger McKnight A simple question at times requires a complicated answer. One way I learned to get around this problem was in Mrs. MacDonald’s Grade 6 math class; and was she ever…
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image Releasing crude from the SPR is not the answer by Roger McKnight The shortest distance between two points is a circle. “Proof”, you say? I’ll give you proof! The sooner you leave a place, the quicker you are right back where…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Into the Great White Open; navigating whiteouts and other seasonal nuances by Harry Rudolfs I wanted to skip talking about winter driving until next year, but another difficult week on the big road involving a slough of tractor trailer collisions has got me thinking.
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image Deflection is the word of the week when it comes to the situation between Russia and Ukraine by Roger McKnight The only word to describe all the media surrounding the strained situation between Russia and Ukraine over the last week is, “deflection,” which has significant meanings when used in sports,…
Roger McKnight Author Gravatar Image There have been 10 derailments in the last year involving Bakken crude and it’s got to stop by Roger McKnight We’ve all had those, ‘uh-oh’ moments. The thud that the now locked car door makes as you peer inside the window to see that the keys are laying right there…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image The Lockwood Report by Rolf Lockwood FUEL ECONOMY OR UPTIME? Let’s have a look at the Mid-America Trucking Show that drew thousands of folks to Louisville, Kentucky last week. I’ve been posting online some of…
