Transportation P.E.I. ROADS DUG OUT OF RECORD SNOWFALL January 9, 2001 CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. -- Despite the near-record snowfall which blanketed the Island on the weekend, motorists can...
Transportation BREADNER, WABASH CLOSE TO FINALIZING DEAL January 9, 2001 MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Truck News has learned that Breadner Trailer Sales and Wabash National are very close to final...
Transportation B.C. GROUP INSURES ON-LINE January 8, 2001 VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The B.C. Automobile Association has leapt into the millennium and on to the information highway...
Transportation COALITION WANTS TO STOP TORONTO’S TRASH January 8, 2001 SUMPTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Trucks loaded with garbage from Canada's most populated city have begun dumping their lo...
Transportation FLEET RISES FROM THE ASHES January 8, 2001 EDMONTON, Alta. -- As the people at Rosenau Transport prepared for their Christmas party last month a fire, likely...
Transportation ALBERTA PROBES UNSAFE CARRIERS January 8, 2001 CALGARY, Alta. -- Between April and October of last year, 409 different trucking firms either received warning lett...
Transportation CANADA, MEXICO SCRAP SOME NAFTA TARIFFS January 3, 2001 TORONTO, Ont. -- Canada and Mexico have eliminated a slew of nuisance tariffs that slow about $207 million in annua...
Transportation CANADA USES NAFTA TO CHALLENGE U.S. POTATO BAN January 3, 2001 CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. -- Malpeque MP Wayne Easter says Canada's decision to challenge the U.S. ban on P.E.I. potato...
NEW ONT.-QUE. WEIGHTS AND DIMENSIONS NOW IN EFFECT January 3, 2001 QUEEN'S PARK, Ont. -- New weights and dimensions laws aimed at bringing Ontario and Quebec one step closer to harmo...
Transportation WATCH FOR FALLING OBJECTS IN B.C. January 2, 2001 CHILLIWACK, B.C. -- RCMP in Chilliwack are warning motorists that someone is throwing objects off the Gibson Road o...
MANAC ACQUIRES SEMITRAILER MANUFACTURER FABREX January 2, 2001 BOUCHERVILLE, Que. -- Canadian semitrailer manufacturer Manac has spent $9 million to acquire various assets of Tro...
Transportation Trucknews.com initiates new email news service (January 01, 2001) January 1, 2001 DON MILLS, Ont. -- The trucking industry's leading information-based Web site, trucknews.com, has launched the firs...
Transportation SMART SPEC: fifth wheels January 1, 2001 Call them the Rodney Dangerfields of the trucking world. When it's time to spec a new truck, fifth wheels get no respect. While hours are spent going over the smallest of details for more glamorous co...
Transportation Tire Speak January 1, 2001 Ever wonder how they come up with the names for the various truck tire models?Unlike car tires, which often go by catchy descriptive names like Tiger Paw and Wilderness, truck tires usually wear handl...
Transportation PeopleNet Communications developing vehicle performance monitoring product January 1, 2001 PeopleNet Communications, a vehicle locating and mobile communications solutions provider, is beta testing PerformX, a new vehicle diagnostics product it claims will give fleet managers the informatio...