Transportation

Dot-com frenzy out of control: Hebe

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As a growing number of Internet-based businesses emerge to capture a share of the business-to-business E-commerce market, they've found a frustrated industry leader. Freightliner Cor...

Solidarity soon?

PICKERING, Ont. - There is a scene in the movie Hoffa when Jack Nicolson, playing the late (we think) founder of the Teamsters, storms around a Depression-era loading dock, urging the drivers to drop ...

Trucker’s vigil comes to an end

SUDBURY, Ont. - Dennis Cleary's 1999 Century Class became a fixture on the shoulder of Hwy. 69 as he protested the high fuel costs that were putting him out of business. Now they have.His truck is bei...

Crude economics

TORONTO, Ont. - Over the past few months, there's been quite a furor over the price of fuel. There's also been a lot of rhetoric. Depending on what camp you're in, and how the rising price of fuel has...

Fuel spikes go west

VANCOUVER, B.C. - While Western truckers were spared dramatic diesel price increases that gripped Eastern Canada early this year, they're now in the midst of fuel price increases of their own.Where th...

Oh deer! Bad time for N.B. roadkills

FREDERICTON, N.B. - New Brunswick's Natural Resources Ministry is noting that it's a stressful time of year for deer populations, which face the threat of oncoming traffic. Right now, the problem area...

More carriers join millionaires club

OTTAWA, Ont. - The number of for-hire carriers making more than $1 million in revenue per year is on the rise. Where 2,500 fell into that category in the first half of 1999, only 2,200 made the millio...

Hwy. 101 twinning being put on hold

HALIFAX, N.S. - Nova Scotia Transportation Minister Ron Russell said he is scrapping plans to extend Hwy. 101."The province still plans to twin the highway when the money is available,'' he stated in ...

24-hour scales aren’t the answer to safety

For most Canadians, British Columbia is known for its natural beauty; the scenery that is fodder for postcards. Truck drivers might come to know it for its illogical approach to scale hours.The provin...

The trucking industry needs a unified voice

I don't know anyone that has a crystal ball that can predict what will happen with fuel prices in the weeks and months ahead. There has been some recent moderation in rack prices, but not enough to of...

In for ‘ripair’, Part 3

After eating breakfast in the hotel coffee shop, Mark spent the morning doing a load of laundry at the laundromat near the hotel. When all his clothes were dry, neatly folded and back into his overnig...

Together for the long haul

Two years ago, Susan and Juan Groening were stuck in dead-end jobs. The young Leamington, Ont. couple (she's 25 and he's 26) were making house payments on credit cards and the future looked bleak."He ...

Bighorns find life in Manitoba

EDDYSTONE, Man. - Dodge hasn't made a heavy truck since 1975, but five Bighorns are still carrying farm goods in Eddystone, Man. And they look as good as new."The truck used to run for the Calgary and...

Let EBS stand alone: Kenworth

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - If it's good enough for Europe, it should be good enough for North America.That's the message Kenworth is taking to the U.S. Department of Transportation as it tries to convince regu...

Toronto trailer thieves sought

TORONTO, Ont. - Toronto police are looking for a utility trailer loaded with assorted chairs, cloth, vinyl and leather. When the staff of Apex Furniture arrived at their Steeles Avenue site on Feb. 29...