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Preventive Maintenance: Avoiding skin cancer

Summertime and the living is easy - it's easy to understand why most people look forward to this time of year. After a tough week, there's nothing like enjoying a relaxing day in the sun to recharge y...

Industry Issues: Political temperatures rising over environment, energy

The environment and the associated issue of energy conservation, whether out of concern over the increasing levels of smog that overhang our major cities, climate change, or the simple desire to reduc...

Voice of the O/O: Two in a tango – Part 1

"Do you know any good carriers?" That's a question I get asked a lot when I pick up the phone these days. More often than not, it's a driver who's been left sitting somewhere over a weekend with promi...

Private Links: Recruiting help is on the way

There are several schools of thought to explain why there appears to be a shortage of qualified drivers for the trucking industry.

Law and the Border: Don’t play games with FAST card application

There is a little game that has been going on for as long as there have been border inspections. A person has a potential problem regarding admissibility to the United States - an arrest, a conviction...

A trucker’s wife: Feeling lonely and homesick

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Sticking up for truckers

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Clarifying some points about Boomerang

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Hats off to a top instructor

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From one runner to another

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Where are the jobs?

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Don’t get left out in the cold

CALGARY, Alta. - Guiding a fully loaded truck across iced asphalt and blanketing snowfall is all a part of doing business in a country affectionately known as the Great White North.

Cash Only: PART 2

The story so far...

Worried about ’07?

KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Eaton revealed that it is neither shaken nor stirred over the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) looming '007 deadline that will require manufacturers to meet strict emissio...

History book blazes trail into the dusty roads of Alberta trucking

CALGARY, Alta. - For nearly five decades Paul Rubak etched out an existence as an employee of the trucking industry, spending the majority of his tenure with Canadian Freightways.