Industry Issues: It’s your chance to comment on speed limiters preview image Regulations Industry Issues: It’s your chance to comment on speed limiters September 1, 2005 By now, you will have read or heard that the OTA board of directors has endorsed a policy directive to make it mandatory for speed limiters to be activated on all trucks. This would be part of a compr...
Law and the Border: Criminal Code changes do affect waivers preview image Regulations Law and the Border: Criminal Code changes do affect waivers September 1, 2005 Not everyone with a criminal record needs a waiver, even if the person has multiple convictions. For example, offenses committed before the person was age 18, typically do not affect admissibility....
Regulations Montreal company puts moves on truck manifest market September 1, 2005 MONTREAL, Que. - A high-tech Montreal company wants to do for the trucking industry what it has already achieved for air and sea shippers....
Regulations Alberta Transportation to offer brake inspections next week August 26, 2005 CALGARY, Alta. -- Next week marks North American Brake Awareness Week and will include two educational brake mainte...
Regulations Feds ink fuel tax sharing plan with Saskatchewan August 24, 2005 SASKATOON, Sask. -- Prime Minister Paul Martin yesterday announced a fuel tax rebate program for Saskatchewan that ...
Regulations Canadian Cabinet ministers warn of trade war against U.S. August 24, 2005 REGINA, Sask. -- Canadian officials have suggested we could be in for a major trade war with the U.S. after it chos...
Regulations Illegal cows slip across border August 23, 2005 CALGARY, Alta. -- A cow that violates the new import rules set out by the U.S. has been trucked across the border, ...
Regulations FMCSA’s revised HOS released August 22, 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- FMCSA Administrator Annette Sandberg has presented the new hours of service regulations for th...
Regulations Cargo securement educational session slated for Alberta August 18, 2005 MEDICINE HAT, Alta. -- Alberta Transportation is hosting a town hall meeting regarding the new cargo securement reg...
Regulations Ontario loses another battle with 407 August 17, 2005 TORONTO, Ont. -- Ontario has lost another battle in its ongoing legal war with Hwy. 407 ETR.
Regulations MTO Phase 3 weights and dimensions seminar Oct. 21 August 15, 2005 TORONTO, Ont. -- The Ontario Trucking Alliance has added another date for its seminar on the new MTO weights and di...
Regulations Port’s back in business, but where are the trucks? August 12, 2005 VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The Vancouver Port Authority (VPA) says that despite extended hours, there are few trucks showin...
Regulations Canada wins another round in softwood lumber battle August 11, 2005 OTTAWA, Ont. -- Canada claims it has won another victory in the ongoing softwood lumber dispute with the U.S., and ...
Regulations BREAKING NEWS: BCTA gets sucked into container hauler strike August 10, 2005 VANCOUVER, B.C. -- There's been a new twist in the Vancouver container hauler strike, and it's not sitting well wit...
Regulations E-manifests coming to Canadian border August 9, 2005 TORONTO, Ont. -- U.S. Custom has announced it will open electronic filing of truck manifests at two of Canada's bus...
