Transportation

Get a grip, winter’s coming

When inclement weather approaches, particularly when you're driving through hilly terrain, improved traction on split road surfaces can mean the difference between keeping on track and wildly spinning...

Protesting O/Os win promises of fuel help

TORONTO, Ont. - After more than a month of failed negotiations, blockades and highway protests, Ontario truckers appear to have succeeded in winning at least the promise of relief from sky-high fuel p...

Trimac board approves move to private ownership

CALGARY, Alta. - Trimac Corporation's board of directors has approved the previously announced proposal to privatize Trimac.In a press release, the company also said Trimac, one of Canada's largest tr...

TransForce plans on more growth

MONTREAL, Que. - TransForce plans on more takeovers next year, after it digests its $85-million acquisition of TST solutions that was announced last March, chief executive Alain Bedard said Oct. 4."TS...

A month of NTA’s sound and fury

OSHAWA, Ont. - Between blockades, convoys, closed-door bargaining sessions and Queen's Park press conferences throughout October, it was as though the clock had been turned back eight months to the la...

Push for ratings continues: ‘Devil’s in the details’

OTTAWA, Ont. - After being slammed in a recent report for failing once again to meet a self-imposed deadline to adopt a Canada-wide safety ratings system for commercial vehicle operators, many jurisdi...

NAFTA means more Canada-Mexico freight: study

TORONTO, Ont. - While most border-bound truckers are hauling freight to and from the U.S., a growing amount of cargo is traveling across the entire continent, thanks to the North American Free Trade A...

Could it float?

BELLEDUNE, N.B. - There may yet be a new freight ferry service between the port of Belledune, N.B. and Corner Brook, Nfld.A nine-person committee struck in August to advance the project has received p...

Trucker killed setting flares

MONTREAL, Que. - A 50-year-old Montreal trucker was run over by a car and killed Oct. 4 while he was setting up road flares on the Decarie Expressway.Ibrahim Omar Bachache's tractor-trailer had stalle...

E-logs

MONTREAL, Que. - If a Quebec pilot project works out, on-board computers could be the logbooks of the future, and electronic pre-trip inspection reports may not be far behind.When Dominic Joly, a driv...

Ontario to widen QEW

TORONTO, Ont. - The Government of Ontario is going to spend more than $100 million to widen the Queen Elizabeth Way highway between Guelph Line, in Burlington, and Highway 403, in Oakville, as well as...

Ontario pushes back IRP implementation date

TORONTO, Ont. - After much lobbying by the Ontario Trucking Association and other industry groups, Ontario has decided not to implement the International Registration Plan (IRP) until April 1, 2001.Th...

Trucker awarded medal of bravery

OTTAWA, Ont. - The Canadian government is giving a Medal of Bravery, posthumously, to Mandeep Singh Dhillon, a trucker from Brampton, Ont. who died trying to save a fellow trucker in a 1998 accident.A...

Assignment: Tokyo

For one memorable week in early November I and a handful of U.S. trade magazine editors were the guests of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of North America (MFTA) in Japan. Meetings with top management official...

OUTLOOK 2001: Inside the Numbers

Crossborder trucking is the industtry's engine of growth, but what the latest statistics reveal about some truck traffic patterns and which geographic regions are profiting the most may prove surprisi...