Transportation

Trucker helps put out car lot fire

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - A passing truck driver is being commended for preventing a disaster after he helped extinguish a fire at a Ford dealership here on Aug. 10.An electrical fire began behind a sig...

Make no mistake; Customs, Immigration are different

I often hear the process of entry to the U.S. referred to as "going through Customs." Less frequently, I hear it referred to as "going through Immigration."The fact is that they are two separate funct...

Forging new links

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Link Logistics has been acquired by U.S.-based TransCore in a deal both companies say creates the single largest Internet freight exchange in the continent.Link will now work side-...

Trailmobile cash

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Trailmobile Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturers of semi trailers, says it intends to proceed with a rights offering to raise up to $1 million. Shareholders of record on Aug. 10 we...

Maxim grows

WINNIPEG, Man. - The intersection of Inkster Blvd. and Route 90 in Winnipeg has seen the completion of another stage in the development of the Maxim corner.Maxim International Trucks and Maxim Interna...

Magna to grow

MILTON, Ont. - Magna International says it will build a $150 million, 450,000-square-foot plant in Ontario's Halton Region.Located near the intersection of Hwy.s 401 and 25, the facility will churn ou...

Markham expands

BELLEVILLE, Ont. - Markham Equipment Sales is expanding its presence in the Ontario transportation market with the creation of two new facilities in Belleville, Ont. and Kitchener.The plan is to open ...

Pete rolls out new color codes (September 01, 2001)

DENTON, Tex. - Peterbilt trucks are now available in highly stylized colors of DuPont Imron paint. The choices include many new custom schemes, including Imron 5000, Imron 6000, Imron 6000 Pearls and ...

Livestock group looks to find legs

CONSORT, Alta. - Some would say they're the red-headed stepchildren of the trucking industry.Animal haulers are among the most regulated truckers on the highway, and they face a series of unique chall...

Trans-Canada movie shoot (September 01, 2001)

CALGARY, Alta. - Despite the millions of people who see stretches of it every day, two Canadian filmmakers plan to show the Trans-Canada Highway from a new perspective.The pair aim to bring the Trans-...

Overpass blame falls on previous gov’t: Grit MNA

LAVAL, Que. - Two former top Bloc members must be held at least partially responsible for the collapse of a Laval overpass that claimed the life of one man last summer, says Liberal MNA Thomas Mulcair...

Traffic stalls due to decay

ST-CUTHBERT, Que. - Traffic was snarled for hours near here after several chunks of concrete tumbled from a Quebec highway into a river below.The result was a 30 cm hole in the roadway that, which alt...

Truck show takes on Mother Nature – and wins

FERGUS, Ont. - The weather may have been a little temperamental, but organizers still considered the 16th annual Fergus Truck Show a success."It was an awesome weekend," claims Sherry Clarke, the admi...

From gear-jamming to number-crunching

OSHAWA, Ont. - Her deep understanding of the needs of a trucker is one of the reasons Maria Fotheringham has shifted gears from driving to running her own accounting firm.Fotheringham Bookkeeping/Acco...

Truckers protest airport project

MONCTON, N.B. - About 100 members of the Tri-County Truckers Association gathered in late July at the Moncton airport to protest what they consider unfair treatment.At the heart of the protest is the ...