Transportation

Management – Human Resources: Growing a better driver force

Part I of a SeriesAs the potential for the continued rapid growth of our industry remains hostage to the ever-tightening grip of the driver shortage, it's important to take a step back from the often ...

Federal Subsidies, Grants & Contributions by Mode

Highway ModeTIMEAtlantic Region FreightTransitionHighwayInfrastructureFixed linkOtherTotalFRAMEAssistance Prog...

News (July 01, 2000)

FCA calls on carriers to hike their rates by 5.5%Carriers will require a 5.5 per cent increase in their shipping rates to remain profitable, according to the Freight Carriers Association of Canada (FC...

Annual Growth in Transportation Employment

Source: Statistics Canada, Income and Expenditures Division and Transport Canada estimatesPERCENT, BASED ON THOUSANDS OF WORKERSTOTALAIRRAILWATERTRUCKOT...

Fueling concern

The threat of another massive spike in fuel prices looms despite the increase in crude supplies flowing from the Middle East.After successive weeks of price drops, crude oil prices started rising agai...

Freightliner, Praxair develop system to avert truck rollovers

Freightliner and Praxair have devised a new technology, Roll Advisor & Control, to alert truck drivers to potentially dangerous driving behaviors and to automatically slow the vehicle to help prevent ...

Carriers boost Q1 revenues

OTTAWA, Ont. - Canadas largest carriers boosted their revenues by an average of 14 per cent in the first quarter of 2000 compared to a year ago, according to Statistics Canada.The top 82 for-hire car...

No more horsing around

TORONTO, Ont. - Ed Dailous may raise horses and train truck drivers, but he's happy to use different equipment for each job, thank you very much.The vice-president and general manager of Markel Profes...

Protesters continue to organize

TORONTO, Ont. - Probably nobody pays more attention to the price of fuel at the pump than truck drivers. They hardly need to be told, then, that the price of diesel fuel has been inching up lately, to...

Canadian truck plants gear down for slowdown

CHATHAM, Ont. - Canada may not yet be feeling the drop in retail truck sales that are affecting the U.S., but truck plants located here are beginning to feel the affect of lagging Class 8 truck orders...

Couriers continue to benefit from E-conomy

TORONTO, Ont. - The Internet and the business that flows through it continues to drive more business to Canada's courier industry, a Canadian Courier Association conference was told on June 1."I belie...

Operating ratios hold steady (July 01, 2000)

OTTAWA, Ont. - Canada's largest truck fleets spent more on owner/operators and fuel in the last half of 1999 than they did in the last half of 1998, but still managed to maintain their operating profi...

Tetrault is Manitoba team champion

WINNIPEG, Man. - Tetrault Transport was the big winner at this weekend's Manitoba Driving Championships, garnering the coveted Team Champion title.The team, which included a combination of drivers fro...

Build it to last

Jack Neuman of Maynooth, Ont. is looking for a good heavy truck. "We're going to draw gravel and we're going to use it to draw logs," he says. It's the kind of work that requires robust equipment; som...

Mark Dalton: Owner/operator Murder on Site: Part 2

The interview room at the OPP Communication Centre in Barrie was small, cramped and surprisingly clean. Mark had expected something right out of NYPD Blue, but then this was rural Ontario and such roo...