Freightliner aims to ease upfit process for its customers preview image Transportation Freightliner aims to ease upfit process for its customers March 14, 2017 LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Freightliner was showing off its 114SD, equipped with a 38-meter concrete Z-boom, at World of Concrete 2017 (WoC); a truck that highlights what the company can do…
Transportation Beep-beep! The fine print and ELDs March 13, 2017 Before Netflix and a thousand cable channels existed, there wasn’t a kid on the street whenever The Bugs Bunny Show came on TV. Who doesn’t remember poor old Wile E.
Transportation Leveling the playing field March 13, 2017 Truck Loggers Association optimistic government review will reveal forestry industry’s problems
Transportation New home on the way March 9, 2017 AMTA to open new office with test track at Edmonton airport
Transportation A truck driver’s best friend? March 9, 2017 Woman fired for bringing her service dog along for the ride
Easy as pie preview image Transportation Easy as pie March 9, 2017 Western Star ‘transformer’ so simple to operate even this editor could perform under pressure
Constructing a successful business preview image Transportation Constructing a successful business March 7, 2017 It’s the humble trucking story most are familiar with. Dad drives trucks, takes one truck and builds a business. That’s more or less how Joseph Haulage planted its roots in…
Trucking, and loving it preview image Transportation Trucking, and loving it March 7, 2017 Trucking gets a thumbs up from one of Quebec's youngest drivers
Transportation The Mark Dalton Project, Part 1 March 7, 2017 Mark had been spending much of the winter driving long-hauls between Toronto and Edmonton. When the weather was bad on the prairies, the drive could be a challenge, but with…
In the market for a used truck? preview image Transportation In the market for a used truck? March 5, 2017 A properly functioning emissions system should be on your checklist
Transportation Audits? Here’s what CRA is looking for March 5, 2017 We don’t see many full-blown audits anymore, where CRA goes rifling through receipts and statements for every single claim (although they do happen). Instead, the agency seems to be conducting…
Transportation The road ahead will be challenging, interesting March 5, 2017 The next few years are going to be a fun time in trucking. Okay, perhaps it depends on your definition of ‘fun’; interesting may be a more appropriate term. Either…
Transportation Drivers play a major role in reducing fuel mileage March 3, 2017 At the core of any training program for drivers is the need to repeat, repeat, and repeat. That repetition makes practice permanent, not necessarily perfect. So, the need to monitor,…
Regulations Why I embraced the switch to e-logs March 3, 2017 I’ve been running on electronic logs for a while now and I have to say, I’m sorry I didn’t get them sooner. Contrary to some of the fear mongering going…
Business Management Debunking the ‘economies of scale’ myth March 3, 2017 ‘Economies of scale’ is a phrase I hate. I don’t think it has any place in a service industry, especially ours. Obviously, it fits the manufacturing sector. Set up tooling…
