Transportation

The strength of a lightweight

You can be forgiven if you automatically assume that bigger and heavier equates to stronger and tougher. It's drilled into us from the time we're children, when we first see the comic strip with a bul...

Con-Way Canada Express expands

TORONTO, Ont. - Another big boy just got bigger in the Canadian LTL market.Con-Way Canada Express has announced that it is expanding its operations into five more provinces as part of the company's ov...

Survey says… driver job satisfaction dropping

DON MILLS, Ont. - Canada's truckers are slightly less satisfied with their jobs than they were last year, while carriers could do a better job in their day-to-day dealings with those behind the wheel ...

Q&A THE INTERVIEW

MONTREAL, Que. - As members of the Quebec Trucking Association (QTA) milled around him, at their annual convention, executive vice-president Claude Pigeon stopped to talk about several issues concerni...

Highway 59 work to include flood protection

WINNIPEG, Man. - The second phase of the Hwy. 59 expansion to four lanes will include better flood protection measures in the Grande Pointe area.The work involves the construction of four lanes along ...

The stop gaps

DON MILLS, Ont - Current brake technology is too labor intensive and not reliable enough to meet compliance and cost expectations, Frank Haselden of TST Overland Express told delegates attending the 3...

Rolling in the dough

DON MILLS, Ont. - Tires represent one of the largest costs for truckers, but that also means they offer one of the greatest opportunities for saving costs.The challenge is to work smarter - not harder...

Driving in red ink

Jim saw his financial life spiraling out of control.While he had made a decent living in the trucking industry for 10 years, the owner/operator found himself staring at a rent bill that he couldn't pa...

Author writes by the seat of his pants

Michael Perry is not a trucker. But you'd never know it by the way he writes."It's interesting what you feel up there," he writes, "with those 475 horses chooglin' along at your feet, the turbo holdin...

The ways to the roadway

Time is money, especially when you're delivering a load. And many truckers say it's high time something was done about our roads. Canada is one of a very few countries in the world without a national ...

Food industry plans its 10th championships

TORONTO, Ont. - Drivers in Canada's food industry will converge on the Toronto Congress Centre on Sept. 8 and 9 for the 10th annual Canadian Food Industry Truck Driving Championship.The three-part com...

Truck-Lite buys OEM mirror maker

FALCONER, N.Y. - Truck-Lite has purchased the assets of Raydyot Ltd. of Birmingham, England -- a maker of mirrors and lighting for the worldwide heavy-duty truck market.Terms of the deal have not been...

Q: Should black boxes be used to track hours of service in the U.S.?

REGINA, Sask. - With its proposals for new hours of service regulations, the U.S. has introduced the idea of legislating electronic monitoring devices that would take the place of traditional logbooks...

Forget the night moves

OTTAWA, Ont. - The Region of Ottawa will go ahead with a $13.6-million King Edward Avenue improvement project that could see trucks unwelcome in the capital of Canada's downtown core, and blocked from...

O/O protest blows over

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A planned protest that was to be mounted by owner/operators in Western Canada seems to have blown over before it began. Owner/operators were going to block fuel pumps at several card-...