Transportation

Teamsters balk at 14-hour proposal

TORONTO, Ont. - Canada's Teamsters have launched a national campaign against a proposal that would allow truckers to work 14 hours per day, and are looking to the general public to help them in the fi...

Hitting the rails

MILTON, Ont. - Canadian Pacific Railway kicked off what it calls "the future of long-haul freight transportation" last month with the inauguration of its new Expressway intermodal service linking Mont...

Huron Church a top priority: Collenette

WINDSOR, Ont. - Clearing the bottleneck known as Huron Church Road is the "Number-one highway priority in Canada", federal Transport Minister David Collenette has proclaimed.The Windsor, Ont. link bet...

Honeymoon Capital looks to attract more trucks

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Plans to expand the Peace Bridge that links Ontario to New York State may have stalled, but one nearby community is looking to attract a greater share of the international truck ...

Quebec moves to outlaw highway blockades

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - If Transport Minister Guy Chevrette has his way, the kind of highway demonstrations Quebec has seen over the past two years will be forbidden after June 23.Bill 130, expected to pa...

Furniture cargo stolen

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Police in the Toronto area are looking for a trailer loaded with boxed furniture that was stolen between 5 p.m. on June 9 and 8 a.m. on June 12 from a furniture company on Orwell D...

Fleet manager leads safety league

TORONTO, Ont. - For the first time in more than two decades, a trucking industry executive has been elected as chairman of the board of the Ontario Safety League."Every day, I see drivers and pedestri...

Watch out for the dry roads

WINNIPEG, Man. - It seems that poor weather isn't a driver's worst enemy after all.At least, that's the picture painted by the Manitoba Highways and Transportation Department's study of 1998 traffic c...

Pride, polish & Paris

PARIS, Ont. - For Kevin Clarke, the Truckfest competition held here was a matter of pride."It's to show off what we do. We take real pride in our trucks," says the Hill Transport Driver from Cambridge...

Driver dies in QEW crash

"It looks like driver error," said Const. Betty Anne Martin of the OPP's Niagara Falls detachment. "Visibility was good, and it had nothing to do with road conditions."The accident occurred at about 4...

Alberta to get 24,000-lb. tridems, announcement coming within 90 days

WHISTLER, B.C. - After 18 months of lobbying, the Alberta government appears ready to approve 24,000-lb., medium-spread tridems, increasing allowable weights by 1,000 lb., says Jurgen Mantei, chairman...

Premier problems

When it comes to the world of enforcement, it's always been a balance between carrots and sticks. Do you entice truck owners with the proverbial carrot - incentives for doing a good job - or do you pu...

B.C. carriers cool to planned transit fee

WHISTLER, B.C. - The British Columbia Trucking Association (BCTA) has set its sights squarely against plans for a proposed $75-per-vehicle fee in the province's Lower Mainland, since truckers aren't e...

Canada’s minimum wheelbases need to be rethought

In the heavily regulated world of trucking in which we live, nothing is more bewildering than the regulations that surround the weights and dimensions of commercial vehicles.If there is any individual...

My name is Dave, and I am a Canadian trucker

One part of my job is to be a spokesman on behalf of the trucking industry in Canada. This means I do a lot of public speaking to industry, government and public groups. And after a while, I tend to g...