Equipment Heavy duty decisions: The right specs for your hardworking vocational truck August 6, 2014 Construction companies, typically, have to fill a variety of transportation needs. Even a small to medium-sized outfit usually contains a fleet of tandem and/or tri-axle dump trucks, a few tractors…
Equipment Three fleets share their effective maintenance strategies August 6, 2014 Trucking in Alberta's Oil Patch and construction sites is tough on tires. Three fleets share their tire maintenance strategies
Equipment Surviving tire hell: How to get the most life out of your tires in the most demanding duty cycles. August 6, 2014 Every time a truck ventures off-highway, the risk of tire failures increases exponentially. Scrap metal yards, landfills, the bush – these are places tires go to die. “Most guys, when…
How to maintain your HD engine coolant system preview image Equipment How to maintain your HD engine coolant system August 6, 2014 New colours and additives make choosing the right coolant confusing, but with some simple advice, you can keep your truck cool.
Business Management MIKE McCARRON BREAKS DOWN THE TRANSFORCE/CONTRANS DEAL August 4, 2014 Well, as I mentioned before, the story of the month – maybe the year – is TransForce’s bold bid to take over (in a friendly manner) Contrans. Mike McCarron, who…
Health & Safety THEY DID IT: HEALTHY FLEET CHALLENGE REACHES ITS GOAL August 4, 2014 In just 23.5 days, participants in the Healthy Trucker Healthy Fleet Challenge reached their goal by walking a total of 25,000 miles (the circumference of the globe). “Although the initial…
Business Management TRANSFORCE TO TAKE OVER CONTRANS IN BLOCKBUSTER DEAL August 4, 2014 Of course, the real biggest story, to those of us in the trucking industry, was TransForce’s surprise acquisition of Contrans. Of course we were the first to report on it…
DRIVING VOLVO’S VNX HEAVY-HAULER preview image DRIVING VOLVO’S VNX HEAVY-HAULER August 4, 2014 I love driving trucks and I’ll travel anywhere to do so, but there’s something special about driving them in your own neck of the woods over familiar roadways. I had…
AND DRIVING A GREAT BIG FREIGHTLINER preview image Equipment AND DRIVING A GREAT BIG FREIGHTLINER August 4, 2014 Next up was the Freightliner 122SD tri-drive heavy-haul tractor; a Canadian spec’ that will find a home in the Alberta oilfields. This beast featured a large classic-styled hood, a 70-inch…
DRIVING A LITTLE FREIGHTLINER preview image Equipment DRIVING A LITTLE FREIGHTLINER August 4, 2014 With the Freightliner business sessions behind us, it was time to hit the streets of Yountville, Calif. and surrounding highways in a variety of Freightliner trucks. I first opted for…
FREIGHTLINER’S VOCATIONAL FOCUS PAYING OFF preview image Business Management FREIGHTLINER’S VOCATIONAL FOCUS PAYING OFF August 4, 2014 Four years ago, at a press event in Napa Valley, Calif., Freightliner declared it was going to get serious about the vocational truck market. The company said it wouldn’t rest…
Health & Safety SOME (ALLEGEDLY) DRUNK GUY IN A TRUCK TAKES OUT BURLINGTON SKYWAY August 4, 2014 Well, unfortunately the biggest news concerning the trucking industry these days – if you’re to judge by column inches in the mainstream newspapers – was the guy who slammed a…
Tips on managing retreaded tires preview image Equipment Tips on managing retreaded tires July 24, 2014 Shredded truck tires, or ‘road gators’ spotted along the highway are usually the result of poor maintenance and carelessness, not retreading, according to a major Latin American retreader and several…
Transportation Terrance Smith: A driver worth noticing July 23, 2014 With millions of truck drivers across the US and Canada it’s pretty hard to stand out and be recognized by the Truckload Carriers Association, which gives out just a…
