Transportation

Optimistic forecasts for early 2000

OTTAWA, Ont. - Statistics Canada's short-term economic forecast for the national economy is on the optimistic side, with slightly higher economic growth and international trade, a key component of car...

Legalities aren’t your only worry at the border

I often write about the legalities and practicalities of entering the U.S. And by legality, I mean the laws, rules and regulations governing the situation. But practicalities are more elusive, and may...

Sunbury has flat-rate program

FREDERICTON, N.B. - In an attempt to entice new drivers to its fold, Sunbury Transport Ltd. has introduced a one mile-one rate program.The program pays drivers the same rate regardless of whether they...

DaimlerCrysler, Nissan reported back at talks

DUSSELDORF, Germany - Freightliner and Sterling parent DaimlerChrysler is again negotiating a possible takeover of Japan's Diesel Motor Co.'s commercial vehicle business, a German newspaper reports.Th...

TAC elects board

The Transportation Association of Canada has elected its 1999-2000 board of directors. Ed Stelmach, Alberta's minister of infrastructure, has been appointed chairman of the board. Blair Redline, presi...

Nova Scotia names new

HALIFAX, N.S. - Following Premier John Hamm's recent cabinet shuffle, there is a new minister holding the Transportation and Public Works portfolio in Nova Scotia.Ron Russell becomes the new transport...

Nova Scotia tendering under review

HALIFAX, N.S. - An overall review of Nova Scotia's government programs is raising questions about whether roadwork should be divvied up under a so-called 80-20 rule or thrown open to tenders.The decad...

French truckers end crippling blockade

PARIS, France - French trucking companies returned to work on Jan. 13 after blockading border crossings and highways throughout the country for three days, and they have a new deal in hand.The comprom...

Shippers cool to idea of CN-IC merger

OTTAWA, Ont. - December's announcement by Canadian National and Burlington Northern Sante Fe of their proposed merger gave shipper groups on both sides of the issue something to stew over heading into...

Hot load moves by air instead of truck

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - The federal government has bypassed threats of protests and roadblocks around a shipment of nuclear fuel by keeping off the highway ... and flying it overhead.The mixed oxide ...

CRASH dodges censure

OTTAWA, Ont. - Canadians for Responsible and Safe Highways (CRASH), has survived a bid to censure its involvement in the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) - the group that hel...

BC Rail off track, say truckers

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - The British Columbia Trucking Association has gone on the offensive against BC Rail, accusing the railway of undercutting the rates charged by for-hire truckers."In a free marke...

ECL, Yanke on top 50 list

TORONTO, Ont. -The Financial Post's annual hunt for Canada's 50 best-managed private companies is over and two Prairies-based carriers - Calgary's ECL Group of Companies and Saskatoon's Yanke Group - ...

Clarke, CN launch logistics joint venture

TORONTO, Ont. - Clarke Inc. and Canadian National (CN) have launched a new third-party logistics joint venture they claim offers shippers seamless rail and over-the-road freight transportation and log...

SAE elects first female president

WARRENDALE, Pa. - The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has elected its first woman president in Rodica Baranescu, currently the chief engineer at Navistar International.Baranescu first joined SAE...