Features

Truck Activity in Canada Takes Microscope to a Scrappy Industry

People involved in trucking know how important their jobs are, but for outsiders, trucks are either a nuisance or invisible.It takes an expert like Fred Nix to crunch the numbers and explain just how ...

Race a Factor in Hiring?

TORONTO, Ont. - Is the trucking industry guilty of racial profiling?Certainly it's an issue for the industry; hassle-free crossings are crucial to transborder carrier efficiency, and media reports of ...

Quebec: More Silliness in Year Ahead

MONTREAL, Que. - When the needs of the trucking industry rub up against the rest of the world, the sound can be like the squeals of a trailer load of hogs flying off a cliff.Take the recent announceme...

Worker Shortage Could Affect Canadian Economy: CME CEO

TORONTO, Ont. - The looming skills crisis in trucking could have a negative impact on the entire country's economy, said Perrin Beatty, president and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters associ...

Mattern takes Dispatcher of the Year

WINNIPEG, Man. - John Mattern was recently honoured with the Dispatcher of the Year award by the Saskatchewan Trucking Association.Mattern has been with Reimer Express Lines for 31 years as a driver, ...

Employee or Contractor?

TORONTO, Ont. - Tax time is creeping up, and just how you define yourself and/or your business has everything to do with what you end up having to pay.Needless to say, it's best to figure it out befor...

Black Gold, BIG Challenge

TORONTO, Ont. - Oil probably deserves its nickname of black gold. After all, truck engines would meet a quick end without this great defender of metal.But engines designed to meet ever-tightening emis...

Yellow Talks: CEO James Welch Discusses Merger

Yellow Transportation President and CEO James L. Welch on the impact of the Roadway deal in Canada, overcoming challenges at the border, and the need for a new shipper-carrier relationship.The followi...

Preventive Maintenance: Look Out for Your Eyes

Of your five senses: hearing, touch, sight, smell or taste, which one are you most afraid of losing? If you answered "sight," then you are among the majority. And, if you're like the rest of us, you p...

Private Links: Inadequate Hiring Standards Perpetuate Driver Shortage

Research conducted for the Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council reveals employers might be partly responsible for the shortage of qualified drivers.At a recent meeting with the Private Motor Truc...

Law and Border: The U.S. Fuel Tax Refund – There’s No Such Thing

All of us are guided by common sense, as well as some general principles, including the old adage that "If it seems too good to be true, than it probably is false."That certainly is the case for the r...

A Trucking Terrorist Among Us?

WINDSOR, Ont. - Is Jamal Akkal a wannabe trucker or a failed terrorist?The 23-year-old truck driving school grad was arrested in Israel in November on suspicion of terrorism.Just a few weeks prior to ...

Up in Smoke

VANCOUVER, B.C. - A softwood lumber deal with the U.S., which some industry reps said would return Canada's lumber industry to profitability overnight, was quashed just weeks after being hammered out ...

FDA Appears to Compromise on Cross-Docking

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears to be heeding the industry's criticism of rules which potentially required registration of cross-docking and courier terminals as food ...

FDA Rules Full of Holes: Carriers

TORONTO, Ont. - Carriers breathed a sigh of relief when the FDA announced a "soft enforcement" approach to the Dec. 12 implementation of its new rules governing prior notice and registration of food f...