Ray Haight Author Gravatar Image What a long strange trip it been! by Ray Haight As the saying goes your nothing without your health, for most of you this is nothing but an old cliché and means nothing really, but to those of you who…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image Shipper-Carrier Collaboration – – one of the major themes at this year’s Transportation Summit by Dan Goodwill The 2012 Surface Transportation Summit held in Toronto last week attracted over 200 shippers, carriers and industry vendors. The speakers and panelists discussed a wide ranging array of topics but…
Mike McCarron Author Gravatar Image Lose the customer survey. An internal survey is simpler and far more accurate by Mike McCarron I cringe when I look at some of my older columns. Time has made some of my thoughts so contradicting, I wonder what song sheet I was singing from back…
Lou Smyrlis Author Gravatar Image Will we ever resolve the gridlock at the Detroit-Windsor trade corridor? by Lou Smyrlis Trade is like a river; it moves around all obstructions. For too many years now, the Windsor-Detroit corridor, which accounts for about 30% of Canada-US trade, has been viewed as…
James Menzies Author Gravatar Image Greed or desperation? What’s really behind Indo-Canadian truckers’ drug trade connection by James Menzies On Oct. 14, the Toronto Star published a feature article exploring the Indo-Canadian trucking community’s ties to the drug trade. The report indicated that Indo-Canadian gangs are preying…
Lou Smyrlis Author Gravatar Image Why rabid partisanship is not helping US trucking by Lou Smyrlis Just back from the annual American Trucking Associations Management Conference and must admit I’m left wondering if trucking executives – the ones in the US anyway — really get what…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image The envelope please: National Truck Driving Championships Winners by Harry Rudolfs No doubt you’ve all been waiting for results from the National Truck Driving Championships held in Moncton September 6-9. The Home Hardware team from Ontario was especially strong this year.
Lou Smyrlis Author Gravatar Image No limit to speed limiter craziness! by Lou Smyrlis Speed limiters is going to go down as the issue that just won’t go away, despite the fact it has been in the books in Ontario and Quebec for a…
Ray Haight Author Gravatar Image Listen to Henry by Ray Haight For years I have spoken to large and small groups about how destructive driver turnover or churn is to our industry. It wouldn’t bother me at all if those speeches…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image Integrating social media into your sales pipeline: Why you have to do it by Dan Goodwill A well-developed sales pipeline is a key component of any well managed sales management system. When properly utilized, the tool is an invaluable resource in measuring the number of quality…
Lou Smyrlis Author Gravatar Image ACI: Don’t get left behind by Lou Smyrlis Our cover story this month points out the date for Canada Border Service Agency’s Advanced Commercial Information (ACI) e-manifest requirements to go into effect is fast approaching and questions whether…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Was this the last Loggers Games in Maynooth? by Harry Rudolfs I await Labour Day in September knowing that the Maynooth Loggers Games are coming up. This might have been the best one ever, and the perhaps the last.
Mike McCarron Author Gravatar Image Understanding your company’s “Mickey Mouse” by Mike McCarron The day you become a parent is the day a trip to Disney gets automatically added to the family bucket list. These days, it’s almost mandatory that every kid feels…
Mike McCarron Author Gravatar Image Why I believe Twitter is the most powerful social media tool and the only one that can directly get you business by Mike McCarron Twitter is by far and away the fastest growing social media site (even more than Facebook). Two hundred and fifty million times a day, someone “tweets” a 140-character message telling…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image No Heroics Please, We’re Truck Drivers by Harry Rudolfs The term “hero” is greatly overused these days. The meaning has been watered down so that it no longer means an exceptional person who does a great deed while disregarding…
