Transportation

N.S. hands out $20,000 unsafe-truck fine

HALIFAX, N.S. - A.W. Leil Cranes and Equipment, a Thorburn, N.S. company, has been fined under the province's Occupational Health and Safety Act for failure to maintain a motor vehicle.In early Februa...

New diodes LED the way

FALCONER, N.Y. - The trend of the last few years with trailer lighting has been the push to light emitting diode (LED) systems, which means to the illumination industry what cellular means to communic...

Reimer, parent expand PAPS use

AKRON, Ohio - Reimer Express Lines has expanded its participation in the U.S. Customs' Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS). Reimer drivers forward export documents to a broker, who presents the paper...

Safety audits can be scary, but they aren’t a crap shoot

Much of the time I've spent with trucking companies has been to assist them with government safety audits. While many carriers have been audited several times, one never quite gets used to them.For th...

It’s the same old waiver, just a few new rules

I've heard rumors from truckers lately about the fact the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is changing the waiver rules and doing away with the old border crossing cards.I have writte...

Nova Permits bolsters customer service

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - Nova Permits has now made its permit and pilot car services available to Canadian and American customers 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week.Established in 1992 with only four employ...

Diesel sales jump

OTTAWA, Ont. - Statistics Canada says diesel-fuel sales reached 23.5 million cubic metres last year, a rise of 5.6 per cent over 1999.The statistics tracker also said demand increased due to greater n...

Volvo boss resigns

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Volvo Trucks North America president and chief executive officer Marc Gustafson has quit.Former-president, Karl-Erling Trogen, returned from a senior vice-president position at Volv...

Kudos to Calgary

CALGARY, Alta. - PacLease Calgary, which offers medium- and heavy-duty Kenworths for rental or leasing, has been named Paccar Leasing's Canadian Region Franchise of the Year.The full-service operation...

Navistar takeover?

The company's call options were trading about normal in early February and it wouldn't explain why. Call options are agreements for a company's shares."I don't know what is going on," said one America...

More work in transport

OTTAWA, Ont. - Statistics Canada reports employment in the transportation and warehousing sector increased from 787,800 in December to 788,100 in January. Overall, the employment rate was essentially ...

Things that go “bump” on the road

It is frost-heave season once again - those nasty old bumps that seem to come out of nowhere only to disappear again a month or two down the road.Recently I was traveling at a high rate of fuel consum...

A Knights tale

TORONTO, Ont. - Around the Ontario Trucking Association's (OTA) main boardroom 12 eager men sit, faces transfixed in almost trance-like concentration.All eyes face front, glued to the television and a...

Mack ups market share for 8th year

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. - Mack Trucks closed 2000 with 28,210 U.S. Class 8 retail sales, snatching 13.3 per cent of the market.That was up from 13.1 per cent in 1999, making Mack the only U.S. maker of Cla...

Freightliner targets O/Os to save used trucks

PORTLAND, Ore. - North America's largest truck manufacturers says it is time somebody did something to prop-up used-truck prices, and the company's president and chief executive officer Jim Hebe says ...