Transportation

Customs seminar set for Oct. 24

TORONTO, Ont. - Carriers who deal with Customs agencies in the U.S. or Canada and want to help expedite international shipments have the opportunity on Oct. 24 to learn some tricks of the trade.Semina...

Invest more in people: CTHRC

TORONTO, Ont. - Investment in technology has allowed the trucking industry to firmly plant one foot in the 21st century, but its archaic human resources practices means the other foot is stuck back in...

The time to shine

TORONTO, Ont. - Brent Kurtz is fussing over an immaculate 1968 Kenworth. By the look of the thing, you'd think this truck's hardly seen a day on the road, let alone floundered in a scrap yard for who-...

Unplugged: Wireless devices offer more than a phone

The days of clunky, wheel-chock-sized cellular telephones that were the tools of mobile communications in the mid-80s are long behind us. Mobile phones, first introduced in Canada in 1985, now fit in ...

Public shouldn’t buy government line on photo radar

If you were to talk to any truck driver - either rookies or the experienced among us - and ask them what some of their beefs are, you would soon realize that the poor quality of drivers is a top conce...

O/Os twice as likely to measure brake stroke

TORONTO, Ont. - When it comes time to crawling under a truck to mark and measure brake stroke, owner/operators are two times more likely than drivers to do the job, according to results from a survey ...

Cabotage changes are not likely to come before 2001

A year ago, I was quite optimistic about the chances for new cabotage rules. The proper forces seemed to be aligned, with an agenda in place. A couple of meetings had taken place between industry repr...

NTA doesn’t represent me

Dear Editor,Who is the National Truckers Association? Is this the group of people trying to have owner/operators classed as "employees"? If it is, they certainly do not represent me or anyone I know i...

Goodyear launches tire service

ETOBICOKE, Ont. - Goodyear Canada has officially launched Truckwise, an extensive re-branding initiative aiming to turn registered Goodyear dealers across the country into the industry's first integra...

Q: How do you keep in touchwhen you’re out on the road?

TORONTO, Ont. - This is a big country, which explains why Canadians are known for impressive advances in communication technology - after all, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, did a l...

CN extends Roadrailer intermodal service

TORONTO, Ont. - Canadian National announced in late September that it plans to extend its RoadRailer intermodal service in the Toronto-Chicago corridor.The railway will acquire 200 of the specially-eq...

Improve your efficiency

Even if fuel prices begin to drop, it's unlikely that they'll hit the 10-year low that we were enjoying prior to last winter. So unless you want your money to go up in smoke, you should try to adhere ...

Government to help Newfoundland truckers

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. - They may not have found the cash they were looking for, but a group of Newfoundland and Labrador truckers walked away last month with promises of other help from their provincial g...

Quebec looks for team of highway ‘ambassadeurs’

MONTREAL, Que. - The Quebec Trucking Association is launching a new program to heighten understanding between the province's road-using public and professional truck drivers, and is looking for a few ...

Bendix ECU at heart of brake recall

PORTLAND, Ore. - It started off as a simple letter; an update that school boards should check the Bendix-made anti-lock braking systems on Thomas Built school buses. With the warning of a potential sa...