Features

Did you know? (April 01, 2008)

The deep shipper concerns about capacity in trucking that first surfaced in the final quarter of 2003 and paved the way for some of the most significant rate hikes since deregulation now seem a distan...

New study says fatigue causes 18% of accidents

TORONTO, Ont. - The Highway Safety Roundtable has released a new study that shows 18% of fatal accidents are related to driver fatigue. The study suggests tired drivers are responsible for about 400 C...

Record spending on tap for Quebec road network

MONTREAL, Que. - Quebec has announced it will spend $3 billion on its road network this year and next, the first of a projected $12 billion it wants to spend between 2008 and 2012. Putting this in per...

Welcome to the new reality

B. C.'s carbon tax should serve as further warning to truckers across Canada, and in fact across North America, of things to come. Carbon taxes are certain to become a reality across the continent, as...

Is B. C.’s carbon tax little more than a thinly-veiled fuel tax?

While environmental groups laud B. C. for becoming the first North American jurisdiction to announce a full-fledged "carbon" tax, the trucking industry must feel like it will be shouldering an unfair ...

Not fit for the road? Here are your keys (April 01, 2008)

TORONTO, Ont. - A new study has found that hundreds of drivers that are medically unfit to drive remain on Canadian roads and that 37% of drivers involved in serious accidents had a reportable conditi...

Behind the headlines (April 01, 2008)

Editorial director Lou Smyrlis will be presenting the results of the annual report on Transportation Buying Trends at the upcoming Transpo 2008 in late March.

US truck tonnage reports second consecutive gain (April 01, 2008)

ARLINGTON, Va. - In stark defiance of the popular opinion that the US is on the brink of a recession, truck tonnage in the US made a modest increase for the second straight month in January.

Truck-involved fatal crash rate falls to all-time low in US

ARLINGTON, Va. - Three of the primary measures of large truck safety fell to record lows in 2006, according to figures released by the US Department of Transportation.

N. S. to enhance province’s Gateway

HALIFAX, N. S. - Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald has given a broad outline of the potential infrastructure projects that he says will help transform the province into the Atlantic Gateway of Nort...

Fergus Truck Show continues Top 100 streak

FERGUS, Ont. - For the fourth year in a row, the Fergus Truck Show has been named one of the Top 100 Ontario Festivals.

Court rules ETR to reimburse trailer owners

TORONTO, Ont. - An Ontario court has ruled that 407ETR operators cannot charge tolls based on photographs of trailer plates.

Trucker injured in high-profile rollover recovering

TORONTO, Ont. - Against all odds, the trucker who was seriously injured when his tractor-trailer carrying hot tar rolled over on the 401 last July is continuing to recover.

DoT roadblocks shop owner’s truck parking plan

CRESTON, B. C. - It's been three years since we first reported on the struggles of Dan and Bonnie Ward, owners of a mom-and-pop country store that wanted to convert their small diner into a 24-hour tr...

China replaces Canada as largest exporter to US (April 01, 2008)

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Canada has taken a back seat to China, which for the first time has cemented itself as the largest exporter into the US in 2007.While China's exports into the US have eclipsed Cana...