Transportation

Operating for less

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - A research paper presented during this summer's Canadian Transportation Research Forum in Charlottetown, P.E.I. has concluded that many truckers are not finding the life they'r...

The stamp of approval

TORONTO, Ont. - Its stamp of approval appears on everything from hockey helmets to toasters, but now the Canadian Standards Association is looking to add Canadian trucks to the list.CSA International ...

Murder on Site, Part 4

The story so far ...Mark Dalton delivers the wind machines to the location shoot of Snowflake. In line behind another truck, when the line starts to move, the truck in front of him doesn't. When he op...

The arks of trucking

Doug Luckhart started running to the Toronto stockyards with his dad when he was four or five years old, along with about 30 hogs loaded on the back of their 14-foot flat deck. Doug got to know the ro...

Truck trivia

Pamela Wallin, eat your heart out.The host of Canada's version of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire game show may be ready to stump Canadian contestants with general trivia knowledge this year, but we...

The straight facts

Next to the brakes, there is probably no more important component on your truck than the steering system. When you get right down to it, the level of control that you have over that massive hulk of me...

The Sky Is the Limit

Entering its second decade since its revolutionary introduction to Canadian carriers, mobile communications has matured into an industry ready to move beyond its initial market of long-haul trucking f...

Cyber Solutions

While brazen e-mail "spammers" have been rightfully relegated to the status of Web pariahs, a number of Canadian carriers have quietly discovered a powerful fact about the medium. When leveraged artfu...

Canada’s safety goal falling short

OTTAWA, Ont. - The safety record of Canada's highways may be improving, but it looks like we'll fall short of a goal to have the safest roads in the world by 2001.For the second year in a row, Canada ...

Goodyear gets Truckwise

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 integrated network of ISO...

Another Year, Another Missed Deadline

This December the nation's provincial and territorial governments were supposed to have safety ratings systems in place for operators of commercial trucks and buses. While the deadline is more than tw...

Bandag increases its earnings

MUSCATINE, Iowa - A drop in new truck sales and low-priced tires from offshore manufacturers have dampened North American retread sales, says Bandag chairman Martin Carver. But his company has still m...

Rolling forward DECK:

As Canadian truckers hop behind the wheel of new tractor-trailers, they can finally bask in the bulb-checking glow of ABS warning lamps, each clicking off in their silent promise that wheels won't loc...

Read the fine print before you pay the fine

Working through several recent files, I felt that the following questions and answers would be of interest:Q. I received a citation that I chose to contest. I signed the back of the ticket and mailed ...

Consolidated Fastfrate, Clarke nearing deal

CONCORD, Ont. - Executives from Clarke and Consolidated Fastfrate have been in negotiations since early August, trying to close a deal that would see Clarke acquire Consolidated.Both companies have do...