Transportation Preventive Maintenance: Setting your sights on Old Man Winter March 1, 2002 Winter! What a season for driving. There's slush, snow and sand building up on the windshield ... sopping up your windshield washer fluid and wearing out your wipers. What's worse than grinding dirt b...
Transportation Law and INS giveth and INS taketh away March 1, 2002 In two recent developments, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) made one for the better and one for the worse.On the positive side, it granted work privileges to the spouses of indiv...
Transportation Fiction: Death rides a semi – Part 2 March 1, 2002 The story so far...Mark delivers his load of carpet in Hamburg, New York and is happy to come back across the border empty to pick up a load of bulk rice headed for Calgary. In the Ravi Roadway office...
Transportation Products (March 01, 2002) March 1, 2002 Whitney Blake Company has introduced its rugged and durable truck cable as part of its electrical cord series. The new cable is an interconnect system designed to meet the rigorous, heavy-duty demands...
Transportation Mack boss to address HDMA March 1, 2002 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Paul Vikner, president and chief executive officer of Mack Trucks, will discuss his company's strategies for dealing with the current economic challenges.He will deliver...
Transportation Fort Garry to sell Lode-Kings March 1, 2002 WINNIPEG, Man. - Fort Garry Industries has a new business partnership with Lode-King Industries making it the exclusive Western Canadian distributor of Lode-King trailers.The vast majority of Lode-Kin...
Transportation Paccar profits, revenue down March 1, 2002 BELLEVUE, Wash. - Consolidated net sales and financial services revenues for the manufacturer in 2001 were US$6.1 billion, a decrease of 23 per cent from $7.9 billion in 2000."PACCAR earned $50.4 mill...
Transportation First Autocar rolls March 1, 2002 DUBLIN, Va. - Marked by the sights and sounds of cheering assembly line workers and a visibly proud management team, the first Autocar-badged Xpeditor truck rolled off the assembly line.The historic e...
Transportation Donaldson adds to exhaust line March 1, 2002 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Donaldson recently announced an expanded exhaust product line addressing the challenges faced by fleets, dealers and distributors who must meet the demand for increased variety fr...
Transportation Q: What are your thoughts on the current state of the industry? March 1, 2002 LONDON, Ont. - With the state of the economy, everybody seems to have concerns about the future. Prices keep going up while wages trail behind at a lesser pace.The trucking industry has not been left ...
Transportation Hey you there, stop thief! March 1, 2002 MONTREAL, Que. - Early morning last July 26 a driver pulls out from a Rothman's Montreal Island distribution centre with a load of cigarettes worth about $1.2 million.At 7:20 a.m. thieves hijack the t...
Transportation ICBC criticized for use of “hired guns” (March 01, 2002) March 1, 2002 VANCOUVER, B.C. - An investigation by The Vancouver Sun has revealed that the Insurance Corp. of B.C. (ICBC) has paid out more than $31 million to doctors since 1990 to avoid paying claims.That news h...
Transportation Upgrading of Hwy. 1 March 1, 2002 ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - Local Mayor Bob Brown says the gateway to the U.S. will be the bypass of New Brunswick if a new international bridge - and four-lane highway - aren't built soon.Brown is worried th...
Transportation WESTAC plans to host a second skills shortage powwow March 1, 2002 WINNIPEG, Man. - The Western Transportation Advisory Council (WESTAC) is following up its Skills for Transportation conference with a second conference aimed at developing solutions.The second confere...
Transportation A sorry state of affairs March 1, 2002 DON MILLS, Ont. - Truck News has tallied up the results from our first annual State of the Industry survey and on average our readers report they're not happy with the world of trucking.The survey res...