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Freightliner Introduces Vocational Coronado

PORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner has introduced a new severe-service version of its Coronado truck.

Convoy Crusaders

PARIS, Ont. - Talk about Long Combination Vehicles (LCVs) -or long vehicles combining their efforts, anyway. While these particular vehicles weren't exactly the type of LCV you see on some highways...

Closed For Business

TORONTO, Ont. - Drivers looking for a restaurant and a place to buy fuel on Ontario's 400-series highways will find slim pickings the next few years. Twenty of the 23 sites are closing while they are ...

Truckers Fume Over Smoking Fine

When an OPP officer pulled over a truck driver near Windsor recently and fined him for smoking a cigarette in his rig, he couldn't possibly have known the firestorm he'd ignite. Or maybe he did.

Take This Job And…

There are many depressing numbers I've had to look at this year. Class 8 truck sales, for example, are down 46% year-to-date compared to the same time last year and off an incredible 65% from their pe...

Did You Know? (November 01, 2009)

For a good decade now, motor carriers have been trying to expand their service offerings to provide a wider service portfolio for their customers. It's a smart move considering large shippers are look...

Behind The Headlines (November 01, 2009)

Trucknews.com has been named a finalist for best overall magazine Web site and best video awards in the first-ever Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Trucknews.com was the only transportation magazine...

Federal Funding For Fuel-Saving Devices

SASKATOON, Sask. - The Government of Canada is offering to pick up the tab for a million bucks in environmental upgrades for the heavy-duty trucking industry.

CSA 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Are Canadian truckers ready for the FMCSA's new safety rating system, slated to kick off in July 2010? Or are they being caught with their pants down, yet again?

Disharmonious Quartet

DIEPPE, N.B. - Queer as it sounds, New Brunswick and Ontario have managed to come up with dead opposite conclusions on the use of high-mounted lights on the rear trailers of their long combination veh...

Turn Onto 105

LAVAL, Que. - It is show time at a check station on the southbound A-13 in Laval, just north of Montreal. A Controle routier Quebec carrier enforcement officer wriggles a little cube, barely an inch a...

Hybrid Or Hype-Brid? PIT Plans To Find Out

SAINTE-THERESE, Que. - FPInnovations, Feric Division, whose claim to fame is putting fuelsaving devices to the test during its now twice-annual Energotest, is launching two new projects to validate th...

Ontario Launches Used Tire Program

TORONTO, Ont. - The Province of Ontario has launched an ambitious tire stewardship program which will ultimately clean up massive stockpiles of tires from landfill sites and direct all future scrap ti...

DriveTest Strike Tests Ontario Trucking Industry’s Patience

TORONTO, Ont. - As a strike by DriveTest employees -including driver examiners -entered its second month, the toll on the trucking industry has continued to mount. Instructors at many truck training f...

Ontario Announces Oct. 26 Enforcement Date For Cell Phone Ban

TORONTO, Ont. - Ontario's cell phone ban for drivers will kick in Oct. 26, with fines of up to $500 for offenders beginning Feb. 1, 2010 the province has announced.