“By 2020, it will be crazy. Don’t expect to get anywhere near a city,” expert warns
REXDALE, Ont. -- North American shippers have enjoyed a 30-year run of declining logistics costs but that is about to change, according to George Stalk, senior advisor with Boston Consulting Group, and lingering unwillingness to deal with a...
OTA rejects TV ads labelling proposed Windsor-Detroit bridge ‘road to nowhere’
TORONTO, Ont. -- Ontario Trucking Association president David Bradley has criticized recent television advertisements which attack Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty over monies allocated to building a freeway link to the proposed new,...
Manitoba to explore future all-weather roads to northern remote communities
WINNIPEG, Man. -- The province of Manitoba is launching an engineering study to look at potential routes for future all-weather roads to remote communities in northern Manitoba, according to an announcement from Infrastructure and...
New ExpressPass unveiled for trucks crossing Lewiston-Queenston bridge
LEWISTON, N.Y. -- The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, operator of three of the four Niagara River bridges between Western New York and Southern Ontario, has unveiled its new ExpressPass for trucks crossing the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge to help...
Changes at Port of Montreal will improve container flow
MONTREAL, Que. - By late February, a good percentage of the container trucks entering the Port of Montreal will be using an automated system that should replace paperwork and line-ups of drivers at the guard shacks when they come in to pick up...
Michigan Senate delays Windsor-Detroit bridge construction
TORONTO, Ont. -- The Michigan Senate has rejected a last-minute attempt to secure passage of the legislation which would have enabled the construction of a new bridge between Windsor and Detroit as proposed by the Detroit River International...
New B.C. commercial vehicle inspection station now open
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. -- A new, state-of-the-art, commercial vehicle inspection station and Weigh-in-Motion weigh scale is now open to truck traffic in B.C. The station - officially named the Red Rock Inspection Station - is located on Highway 97...
