Health & Safety Wabco and CVSA join forces for Brake Safety Week September 1, 2015 ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – Wabco Holdings revealed today that it has joined forces with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) to help improve brake safety in time for the alliance’s 2015…
Business Management POORLY MAINTAINED TRAILER COSTS SWIFT MILLIONS September 1, 2015 There may not be any violation under the Highway Traffic Act that will net a multi-million-dollar fine, but Swift found out the hard way that a poorly maintained trailer can…
Business Management Entry Level Driver Training Will Ontario/US Get it Right? August 31, 2015 Entry level driver training, will they get it right, I believe the odds at this point are even, this an issue that I have personally been knee deep in for…
Health & Safety ATA pushes Congress to move forward with driver hair testing option August 25, 2015 ARLINGTON, Virg. — Earlier this week, the American Trucking Associations president and CEO Bill Graves wrote a letter to Congress asking them to move forward with legislation that would allow…
Equipment ‘White noise’ backup alarm adopted by municipal fleet August 18, 2015 COCHRANE, Alta. — Responding to noise complaints from local residents, the town of Cochrane, Alta. has equipped its trucks with ‘white noise’ backup alarms. The bbs-tek alarms, from Brigade Electronics,…
Health & Safety ONTARIO TRANSPORT ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AMONG THE BEST IN NORTH AMERICA August 18, 2015 Steve McPherson of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation has won first place for Level 1 inspections at the CVSA’s North American Inspectors Championship. Ontario tends to fare extremely well at…
Health & Safety HAS IT BECOME TOO DANGEROUS TO STOP AND HELP? August 18, 2015 Professional drivers have long been known as the Knights of the highway, always willing to pull over and help when they come across someone in distress. But recently a Good…
Health & Safety Sciatica: Getting on your nerves? August 17, 2015 Does lower back pain sometimes get on your nerves? If you have pain that shoots out from your lower back, travels to your buttock and then down the…
Health & Safety Cover all the BASICs with CSA scores August 17, 2015 Cross-border carriers will all be familiar with the Compliance, Safety and Accountability (CSA) ratings established by the US Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The related scores are based…
Health & Safety Take action on sleep apnea August 17, 2015 A few issues ago I wrote about (excuse the pun) waking up to the dangers of sleep apnea, thanks to a conference on the subject I moderated for…
Health & Safety PMTC to host seminar on medical marijuana and the workplace August 17, 2015 OAKVILLE, Ont. – The Private Motor Truck Council of Canada (PMTC) is hosting a seminar on October 22 on medical marijuana and the workplace. The seminar will be led by…
Health & Safety Next Healthy Fleet Challenge set for September 1 August 5, 2015 TORONTO, Ont. – The next Healthy Fleet Challenge has been scheduled. The three-month walking challenge is set to start on September 1 and unlike the last challenge, this one…
Equipment Brake blitz takes 14.2% of trucks off the road for brake-related issues July 22, 2015 GREENBELT, Md. — An unannounced brake check day held by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) in the US and Canada May 6 as part of Operation Airbrake placed 14.2%…
Tallman Truck Centre to host Meritor Driveforce Tour preview image Equipment Tallman Truck Centre to host Meritor Driveforce Tour July 22, 2015 MARKHAM, Ont. — Tallman Truck Centre will be hosting the Meritor Driveforce Tour at its Markham dealership July 23. The Meritor Driveforce trailer will be there from 11 a.m. till…
THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS preview image Business Management THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS July 21, 2015 On Saturday, July 11 I spent the day at the London Flying J for the Ontario Professional Truck Driving Championships. I won’t go into too much detail here, because I’ve…
