Transportation

DECISION 2002: TECHNOLOGY: Have exchanges evolved enough to help carriers survive the perfect cost storm?

The need for increased collaboration in transportation logistics may have become a certainty, but what does the buzzword 'collaboration' entail, and will exchanges help you achieve it?"Collaboration m...

Imperial Oil prepares to market Mobil-brand lubricants in Canada

Imperial Oil and Exxon Mobil Corporation have reached an agreement under which Imperial will become the exclusive marketer of Mobil-branded lubricants in Canada. These Mobil-brand products will comple...

DECISIONS 2002: SERVICE: Getting a grip on the potential for change in JIT delivery strategies

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery?The supply chain strategy designed to reduce inventory holding costs for the manufacturing sector has proved particularly bene...

MSM raises $108,000 for charity (November 01, 2001)

BOLTON, Ont. - MSM Transportation's ninth annual Charity Golf Tournament and Sports Memorabilia Auction raised $108,368 for the Stephanie Gaetz Keepsafe Foundation.The event, attended by MSM customers...

Day & Ross completes move to K-town

KINGSTON, Ont. - Day & Ross has relocated its Belleville, Ont. facility about 45 minutes down Hwy. 401 to a 5,511 square-foot terminal in Kingston."The new Kingston terminal will provide improved serv...

Totalline offers up TLC Logistics

DON MILLS, Ont. - Totalline Transport has launched a new division called TLC Logistics.According to Totalline president Uwe Petroschke, the mission of the new division will be to, "Outshine other tran...

BCTA scholarship winners receive $1,000

LANGLEY, B.C. - The B.C. Trucking Association (BCTA) is making the transition to post secondary school a little easier for two students, thanks to their annual scholarship program.Aaron Robert Rizzard...

trucks as tools of terrorism?

With all due respect to the US Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Administration (FMCSA), which believes the threat of trucks being used in future terrorist attacks is real, I think ...

DECISION 2002: SECURITY: Is your risk management plan capable of dealing with the terrorist threat?

Heading into 2002, with the shock of the September 11 terrorist attacks still reverberating through the North American transportation system, risk management is taking on a whole new meaning for Canad...

DECISIONS 2002: CUSTOMS: Bilateral approach to customs critical to security and econmic growth

Can a proposal to fundamentally rework the way Canada scrutinizes imports across the border with the US survive in the climate of elevated vigilance that follows the September 11 terrorist attacks?Ind...

Communication for hire

The trucking industry operates in an environment of rapid change but one thing remains constant: customer communication is and will always be a vital component to exceptional service.Continual dialogu...

Never Compromise

MT: Cancom has been selling mobile communications into the Canadian market since 1990. Can you relate some of the most important market changes and how they have impacted the products Cancom offers?HA...

I want my piece of the highway

MONTREAL, Que. - Maybe it is the security of working for a big carrier like Groupe Robert, or perhaps the pleasure of sleeping in his own bed most nights, but veteran Quebec driver Maurice Marcoux wou...

Unfit for Quebec highways

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - If you cross the line one time too many and are declared a road hazard in la Belle Province, and what worse if you're an O/O the whole world will know about it.The Commission des t...

Trade war stumps lumber fleets

GUELPH, Ont. - Once again, the Canadian lumber industry is holding its breath as its government battles the U.S. over the heavy-handed tariff on softwood lumber.What would normally have been a no-hold...