Transportation Alta. carriers face new MVTA threshold February 1, 2006 EDMONTON, Alta. - As of Jan. 1, Alberta carriers operating outside the province must obtain a Safety Fitness Certificate (SFC) for vehicles exceeding 4,500 kgs....
Transportation Real-time road conditions available February 1, 2006 CALGARY, Alta. - A new Web site allows truckers to check real-time road conditions across Alberta and B.C....
Dog-gone it! preview image Transportation Dog-gone it! February 1, 2006 BELLEVILLE, Ont. - Dave Nixon has had a helluva year. On a personal level, he went through a bitter separation with his wife, his business went under and his father passed away. With no family save a...
Transportation Injured on the job…truckers ask “What’s Next” February 1, 2006 COOKSHIRE, Que. - Stewart Harrison's 40 years of truck driving all came crashing down on him at the side of the road Aug. 2 in an accident where he was just trying to play it safe....
Who are you going to call? preview image Transportation Who are you going to call? February 1, 2006 TORONTO, Ont. - You're a fleet manager and it's 5 a.m. One of your company's rigs just rolled over on a slick stretch of the 401 while trying to avoid a collision with a spun-out minivan....
Transportation Transcom offers supervisory course February 1, 2006 EDMONTON, Alta. - Transcom is once again offering its popular dispatch/supervisor training course in Edmonton. The latest course will begin Jan. 24, 2006 and wrap up Feb. 17. Only 10 students will be...
Transportation 6 Tax tips for truckers February 1, 2006 TORONTO, Ont. - Spring is just around the corner and with it comes the often onerous task of filing your taxes. Truck News spoke with two accounting firms which specialize in trucking to gather some t...
Transportation Kenworth takes MD awards February 1, 2006 KIRKLAND, Wash. - Kenworth has ranked highest in two categories of the J.D. Power and Associates Medium-Duty Truck Study. The company achieved the highest ranking in customer satisfaction among truck...
Trans+Plus teams up with CrimsonLogic for ACE solution preview image Transportation Trans+Plus teams up with CrimsonLogic for ACE solution February 1, 2006 GUELPH, Ont. - Trans+Plus Systems Corp. has announced that it is currently enhancing Fleet Manager Professional to provide an automatically generated e-manifest solution to help customers easily manag...
Regulations Drivers respond to OTA speed limiter policy February 1, 2006 TORONTO, Ont. - Owner/operator groups on both sides of the border have lashed out against the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) and its controversial speed limiter policy....
Transportation Introducing: Wabash Canada (February 01, 2006) February 1, 2006 KITCHENER, Ont. - Wabash National Trailer Centers has announced a change in its management as well as its name, following a purchase by Brent Larson late last year....
Best managed Canadian carriers honoured preview image Transportation Best managed Canadian carriers honoured February 1, 2006 TORONTO, Ont. - The best-managed Canadian transportation companies were acknowledged recently as inductees to Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Platinum Club....
Transportation Capacity solution starts with driver retention January 1, 2006 I just wanted to send you a quick note on your Viewpoint article from the November/ December issue, "Easing of truck capacity - reality or wishful thinking?" Very good article....
Transportation We who live in glass houses. . . January 1, 2006 While almost everyone on Bay Street hypes the income trusts, and the proponents of globalization continue to sing from their hymnbook, I have thought for a long time that the economy will suffer a gre...
Transportation e-logical? January 1, 2006 They are all names for the same rose: paperless driver logs, electronic logs, e-logs or even electronic on-board recorders (EOBR). Any fleet in Canada or the United States can legally replace their pa...
