Transportation

Freightliner lends O/Os a hand

PORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner Trucks recently announced major enhancements to its Security Connection support program for owner/operators.Along with protection against accident-related downtime and ro...

Picking up the slack

GUELPH, Ont. - Every single year, CVSA inspectors write more tickets for "brakes out of adjustment" than for any other defect. Automatic slack adjusters are now state-of-the-industry, but the word "au...

A union blunder?

MONTREAL, Que. - Organizers with the Syndicat National du Transport Routier (SNTR) may have pushed too far, too soon in seeking better working conditions for their members who haul containers at the P...

Canada, Mexico kill some tariffs

TORONTO, Ont. - Canada and Mexico have eliminated a slew of nuisance tariffs that slow about $207 million in annual trade between the NAFTA partners, the two governments have announced.The accelerated...

Coalition wants to block Toronto trash

SUMPTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Trucks loaded with garbage from Canada's most populated city have begun dumping their loads at a landfill in Michigan - much to the chagrin of group of citizens from the stat...

Manitoba eyes Transportation Partnering Program

WINNIPEG, Man. - Manitoba fleets may get stuck with the tab for upgrading substandard routes and bridges if the province's Department of Highways and Government Services has its way.In an interview wi...

December brings freeze on car sales

OSHAWA, Ont. - North American auto sales in 2000 may have roared in like a Class 8, but they limped out with little more oomph than a scooter.In Canada, the December chill saw sales for new cars and l...

OTA delivers festive spirit

TORONTO, Ont. - Four Ontario cabinet members were on hand to help the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) and broadcaster CHUMCity deliver a tractor-trailer load of 7,000 toys to Queen's Park for Toron...

Weather or not

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - This winter won't be one trucker Bruce Hall will soon forget.Hall lost the match.Environment Canada later clocked winds at the Miramichi Airport at 56 knots-an-hour, or 104 km/hr.As ...

TransForce fleet set to become rolling billboards

SAINT-LAURENT, Que. - Everywhere you look fleets are trying to come up with new ways to make a profit.The trucks of TransForce Inc. will roll through Montreal and Toronto pulling trailers with ads emb...

Roll tarps get nod

WINNIPEG, Man. - Following a presentation made last month to a regional task force on weights and dimensions, the Manitoba Trucking Association says Manitoba will amend its regulations to allow the us...

Grimes set to regulate fuel prices on the Rock

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. - The front-runner in the campaign to replace Brian Tobin as Premier of Newfoundland has made a pledge to regulate the province's fuel prices within three months of taking office.In ...

TANS council wants a much higher profile

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - The Truckers Association of Nova Scotia's (TANS) Associated Trades Council is spearheading a drive to increase its profile and is open to new ideas.The council held a brainstorming s...

Distance ed. coming to O/Os, dispatchers

OTTAWA, Ont. - Over the next 18 months, the Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council (CTHRC) will be developing two new training programs aimed at the individuals who play a large part in keeping the...

The Dispatcher

After they dropped off the load of car parts at the GM plant, Johnny invited Mark home for supper."Are you sure your wife would appreciate you bringing a trucker home unannounced?" Mark asked. "Seeing...