Transportation DEFECTIVE BRAKES PLAGUE TRUCKING: EXPERT REPORTS March 16, 2001 MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Two reports just released by several trucking industry groups point to defective brakes as the...
Transportation TRUCKER STABBED BY HITCHHIKER March 16, 2001 CALGARY, Alta. -- A long-haul truck driver is fighting for his life at Foothills Hospital in Calgary, after he was...
Transportation MACK TO OPEN NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTER March 15, 2001 BALTIMORE, Md. -- Mack Trucks is opening a new, 314,025-sq.-ft. parts-distribution center in Elkridge, Md.
Transportation THROW AWAY CELL PHONES ARE HERE March 15, 2001 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Telespree Communications, a California company, has developed a partly disposable cell pho...
Transportation TORONTO MAYOR ASKS FOR HELP IN GARBAGE TRUCKING DISPUTE March 15, 2001 TORONTO, Ont. -- Mel Lastman, the mayor of Toronto, has asked George Bush, the U.S. President, to help force the St...
Transportation VANCOUVER’S TRANSLINK SLASHES COSTS March 15, 2001 VANCOUVER, B.C. -- TransLink has been forced to make massive cutbacks since the group's proposed vehicle levy was a...
Transportation OVERPASS CONSTRUCTION REDUCES CLEARANCE HEIGHT March 14, 2001 EDMONTON, Alta. -- Truckers driving tall rigs should expect some inconveniences on Highway 16 east, near Wabamun, a...
Transportation FORT MCMURRAY CONSIDERS INDUSTRIAL BYPASS March 14, 2001 FORT MCMURRAY, Alta -- Roads in the area of Fort McMurray, Alta. will be getting a facelift, but which projects com...
Transportation OTA GETS DEAL ON NEW YORK TOLL ROADS March 14, 2001 MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has secured a deal with the New York Motor Truck Associ...
Transportation FINES LEVIED OVER EMERGENCY WORKER PROTECTION LAW March 14, 2001 REGINA, Sask. -- A new Saskatchewan law requiring drivers to slow down when approaching emergency personnel is bein...
Transportation TRUCKING BOOMED IN U.S. OVER 30 YEARS: STUDY March 14, 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics says miles traveled...
Transportation MADDOCKS CELEBRATES IMPRESSIVE MILESTONE March 14, 2001 LANGLEY, B.C. -- Trucking-software provider Maddocks Systems is marking twenty years in business -- a great achieve...
Transportation NORTH VANCOUVER DISCOURAGES SHORTCUTS March 14, 2001 NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Drivers who take shortcuts through city streets are being targeted by a traffic calming pr...
Transportation HASSLES AT PACIFIC HIGHWAY BORDER CROSSING March 14, 2001 LANGLEY, B.C. -- Canadian truckers are being warned that they will face major hassles at the Pacific Highway border...
NEW VEHICLE SALES FALL IN JANUARY March 14, 2001 OTTAWA, Ont. -- Statistics Canada says sales of new vehicles in Canada fell 0.4 per cent in January compared with D...