Transportation Decisions 2003: Customs November 1, 2002 With the looming threat of terrorists transporting bio and nuclear weapons across the border, delays at Canada-U.S. crossings are an increasing but understandable nuisance. Still, with close to 50% of...
Transportation Decisions 2003: Rates November 1, 2002 Traditionally, trucking companies have geared their prices to what the market could bear. Since deregulation, that market has been lean.StatsCan reports show just how depressed trucking rates have bee...
Transportation Decisions 2003: Shipments November 1, 2002 Carriers whose client mix is heavily reliant on manufacturing shipments should be thankful their hauls start on this side of the 49th. Canadian manufacturers appear headed into the new year on much fi...
Transportation Take this to heart November 1, 2002 There are a few things that have come up recently that I would like to share with readers. First, a situation regarding an Ontario resident truck driver and health insurance coverage. This particular ...
Transportation Technology Watch (November 01, 2002) November 1, 2002 GEOCOMtms and Maddocks integrate fleet managementGEOCOMtms, a provider of tracking, monitoring and messaging solutions and Maddocks Systems, a supplier of enterprise-wide trucking software, have annou...
Transportation Promise Land Revisited November 1, 2002 There is trouble in paradise. For Canada's for-hire carriers, paradise for the last decade has been the U.S. Hauls into and out of the U.S. have been the undisputed engine of growth for carriers mid-s...
Transportation O/O of the year: Cream of the crop – Hank Rensink named Canada’s top owner/operator November 1, 2002 TORONTO, Ont. - For Hank Rensink, 1974 was a pivotal year of his life. He had recently moved away from his hometown of Picton, Ont. and admittedly had a bit of an attitude at the time.With hardly any ...
Transportation Operation corridor targets bad drivers November 1, 2002 TORONTO, Ont. - The Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) were out in full force recently to crack down on unsafe drivers travelling the busiest highway in Canada.The two-day Operation Corridor saw more ...
Transportation No documents, please November 1, 2002 CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - Making documents and shipping information more visible to customers is great, but sometimes everyone would like nothing better than to move the paperwork that drives commerce out of ...
Transportation Doing time November 1, 2002 'Hurry up to wait!' We've all heard that expression...you're loaded and ready to put down the miles. The shipper took his time getting that last pallet stretch-wrapped, the office took even longer to ...
Transportation Tire tracking goes high-tech November 1, 2002 ORLANDO, Fla. - Michelin has developed a new tire tracking and monitoring system the company says can save fleets hundreds of thousands of dollars.The eTire system was recently unveiled in Orlando, Fl...
Transportation Digi-Boost delivers more juice November 1, 2002 ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Eee Tee Digital Design has developed a digital fuel supplement system aimed at delivering that extra bit of juice when required.The Digi-Boost system, which was showcased for the fi...
Regulations O/Os protest treatment from railways November 1, 2002 BRAMPTON, Ont. - At 6 a.m. on Sept. 25 owner/operators in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) parked their trucks at the Brampton Intermodal Terminal (BIT) in an attempt to garner attention about O/O rates...
Regulations Deadline nears for class action lawsuit November 1, 2002 SUMMERLAND, B.C. - A class action lawsuit against the federal government over meal allowances for truckers is already in the works, but the deadline for joining has been extended to give interested tr...
Transportation Trucking industry feeds the hungry November 1, 2002 TORONTO, Ont. - The Canadian Association of Food Banks (CAFB) took the opportunity to extend thanks to the trucking industry at Truck World 2002.Food bank shelves coast-to-coast are stocked because of...