Transportation Sustainable transportation practices: Are you ready to seize the opportunities? September 1, 2008 C anadian cities and resources are so geographically dispersed and we so dependent on trade that we demand a great deal from transportation. In fact, much of our country's success as a trading nation,...
Transportation Scoring with SmartWay September 1, 2008 The EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership has four categories of fuel efficiency/environmental performance scores. Higher scores could make carriers and logistics companies more attractive to a prospecti...
Transportation Greenovators September 1, 2008 Wal-Mart Canada - Lesley Smith, vice-president of supply chain
Transportation Hybrids come of age September 1, 2008 Record fuel prices and a greening of the trucking industry's collective consciousness are pushing hybrid commercial vehicles closer to the mainstream.
Transportation DRIVER SATISFACTION SURVEY: Can you piece it together? September 1, 2008 P eel your eyes away from the latest sobering reports about the North American economy's downward spiral. Set the disturbing data showing up in your own financial performance records aside for a minut...
Transportation Solve The Puzzle September 1, 2008 T hink of all the time and attention we focus on spec'ing new equipment for the fleet. Do we spend even half as much in "spec'ing" a new driver? That incisive question was posed years ago by an indust...
Transportation Profitability: What should I do now? September 1, 2008 What should I do now? This is a question that I hear a great deal these days from many Canadian motor carrier executives as they seek to refocus their companies' strategies away from the cross-border ...
Transportation Respondent Profile And Survey Methodology (September 01, 2008) September 1, 2008 Over the course of the past year, company drivers and owner/operators were invited to participate in our third annual national Driver Satisfaction Survey in a variety of ways. E-mail invites were sent...
Transportation Profitability: Surviving a recession September 1, 2008 Whether or not the US and Canadian economies are technically in recession has been the subject of much debate amongst economists. However, nobody that runs a trucking company needs an economist to tel...
Transportation “Doctors of iron” September 1, 2008 The reasons behind fleets' reluctance to shift to the new CJ-4 oils, concerns about replacing DPFs and the debate over the benefits of nitrogen inflation were some of the thorny subjects raised during...
Transportation Surcharge Raised to Cover Fuel Costs -Shipper Perceptions September 1, 2008 In their most recent quarterly reports, executives from some of North America's largest motor carriers lamented that their fuel surcharges are no longer covering the true cost of diesel for their oper...
Transportation Profitability: Wes Armour shares keys to success at CFMS September 1, 2008 Wesley Armour, president and CEO of Armour Transportation Systems, recounted his company's climb from a 12-truck fleet to a full-service transportation provider with 3,400 pieces of equipment during h...
Show stopper preview image Transportation Show stopper August 1, 2008 WALCOTT, Iowa - The 23-year-old Canadian truck driver was in no rush to enter the Shell Rotella SuperRigs competition, one of the most prestigious truck shows of the year, held last month.
Transportation Wheel polishing August 1, 2008 TORONTO, Ont. - Polishing. It's one of the most tedious tasks involved in getting a show truck ready to be judged. Especially when it comes to wheels, which aren't likely going to stay clean for very ...
Feds need to walk the talk on business input taxes preview image Transportation Feds need to walk the talk on business input taxes August 1, 2008 Diesel fuel has now overtaken labour as the number one operating cost for many - if not most - truck fleets. Fuel is also one of the most taxed commodities. My next two columns will focus on federal f...
