Transportation Putting Things In Perspective (August 01, 2009) August 1, 2009 A few weeks ago, I had the misfortune of tearing the tendons in my right arm. It was a total fluke -I was golfing (or attempting to) and had just made one of my famous 23-yard drives off the tee block...
Tsq (August 01, 2009) preview image Transportation Tsq (August 01, 2009) August 1, 2009 BOWMANVILLE, Ont. -When it comes to getting food and exercise on the road, for truckers, sadly, the options are few. The sheer size of their equipment limits most truckers to fast food joints and truc...
No More Mr. Nice Guy preview image Transportation No More Mr. Nice Guy July 1, 2009 TORONTO, Ont. - Beginning July 1, truckers who don't have their speed limiter set at 105 km/h while travelling in Ontario can be fined $250 or more. In Quebec, the same law will carry fines of $350 or...
Big Interest In Big Trucks preview image Transportation Big Interest In Big Trucks July 1, 2009 TORONTO, Ont. - Interest in Ontario's Long Combination Vehicle (LCV) pilot project ran high at this year's Canadian Fleet Maintenance Seminars (CFMS).
Do LCVs Make Sense On Ontario’s Roads? preview image Transportation Do LCVs Make Sense On Ontario’s Roads? July 1, 2009 By the time you read this, you may have already seen the first of Ontario's long combination vehicles (LCVs) puttering down the 401. They'll be hard to miss.
Time To Step Up And Show Leadership preview image Transportation Time To Step Up And Show Leadership July 1, 2009 The news recently that the continent's largest trucking company, YRC Worldwide, would seek $1 billion in government bailout money, certainly places the depth of the economic downturn and its impact on...
Did You Know? (July 01, 2009) preview image Transportation Did You Know? (July 01, 2009) July 1, 2009 Rail acts as both a partner and a competitor for transborder freight as well as for freight intended for our ports to be shipped abroad. Almost half (47%) of the freight handled by the two Class 1 rai...
Transportation Trucknews.Com Named Top 5 Business Site For Fourth Year July 1, 2009 TORONTO, Ont. - Trucknews.com was named among Canada's top five best business Web sites at a ceremony in Toronto June 1.
Transportation Passports Now Required At US Border Crossings July 1, 2009 WASHINGTON, D. C. - US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now requires Canadians to carry a passport or an approved alternative if they plan to cross into the US by land. Since the June 1 implementio...
Transportation Earl Hardy Trucking Big Rig Nationals Drawing Near July 1, 2009 GRAND BEND, Ont. - Organizers of the Earl Hardy Trucking Big Rig Nationals are in the process of finalizing details for an expanded two-day celebration of chrome and speed. This year's show moves to J...
Transportation US Freight Recession Bottoming Out: FTR Associates July 1, 2009 NASHVILLE, Ind. - The current recession is U-shaped -not Vshaped -and we're now bouncing along the bottom of that U, according to the latest Current Freight Outlook Webinar hosted by transportation in...
Transportation US Truck Tonnage Continues Fall In April July 1, 2009 ARLINGTON, Va. -Truck tonnage in the US dropped 2.2% in April, after plummeting 4.5% in March and giving back early gains.
Transportation NSTSA Celebrates 10th Anniversary July 1, 2009 DARTMOUTH, N. S. - The Nova Scotia Trucking Safety Association (NSTSA) celebrated 10 years promoting safety excellence in the trucking industry at the group's annual general meeting this spring. The e...
Transportation Highway Heaven July 1, 2009 CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I. - With a $48-million road construction capital budget already in hand, and word of even more money to come, Prince Edward Island's aggregate haulers couldn't be happier, or mor...
Petro-T Comes To Kahnawake preview image Transportation Petro-T Comes To Kahnawake July 1, 2009 MONTREAL, Que. - Dust whipped up by rude gusts of wind sandblast the non-stop traffic on Highway 132 just inside the Kahnawake Indian Reserve. A tanned worker chains a fat girder to a front end loader...
