Features

Allied Trades golf tourney set for Sept.

TORONTO, Ont. - The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) Allied Trades Division will be holding its 36th annual fall golf tournament at the Glen Eagle and Bolton Golf Clubs.The tournament will take plac...

Cramer joins Truck News

DON MILLS, Ont. - The ever growing editorial team at Truck News has added Brandi Cramer as its new assistant editor.Most recently she held the dual position of reporter and photographer with The Hanov...

A piece of history up for sale

FREDERICTON, N.B. - A Dartmouth, N.S., firm is selling a little piece of New Brunswick history by auctioning off toll booths removed from the new Moncton-Fredericton highway.The buildings once used to...

Exploring a N.B.-Nfld. freight ferry

BELLEDUNE, N.B. - The possibility of setting up a truck ferry between northern New Brunswick and western Newfoundland is one step closer to becoming reality.The Belledune Port Authority has asked for ...

Ontario carriers can now request abstracts on the Net

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The province's carriers can now start the ball rolling to get a copy of their Level 2 2001 Carrier Abstract over the Web quickly and efficiently. Available through www.carriersa...

Private or not, logging roads need controls (September 01, 2001)

KAPUSKASING, Ont. - A coroner's inquest in this northeastern Ontario town has suggested establishing speed limits and roving police patrols for logging roads.In addition, the jury ruled truckers must ...

Abitibi won’t close Iroquois Falls paper machine (September 01, 2001)

IROQUOIS FALLS, Ont. - Last month, Abitibi-Consolidateds announced its Number One paper machine located here will remain open.Official word came after the company reached an agreement with the four un...

Four-wheelers flop safety test (September 01, 2001)

BRAMPTON, Ont. - A safety blitz aimed at the weekend warriors who routinely clog the highways out of the Greater Toronto Area on their way to cottage country, nailed 212 of 237 passenger cars inspecte...

ICBC trims down in preparation for competition (September 01, 2001)

VICTORIA, B.C. - The Insurance Corp. of B.C. (ICBC) will be cutting up to 800 jobs by the end of the year, in a move that some observers expect to be in preparation for competition.The government-run ...

Drivers of the Purple Rage – Part 4

The story so far...After picking up a load of plastic pool toys headed for Halifax, Mark is cut off by a young man driving a 10 year-old Buick LeSabre. When Mark blasts his horn at the man, he gets a ...

Love on the run

ALBERTON, P.E.I. - Drivers pull into truck stops for food, fuel and sleep, but sometimes they get a little more than they were counting on.Art White, now 51, stopped at the Happy Landing Truck Stop ba...

Report indicates Manitoba closer to introducing photo radar

WINNIPEG, Man. - A confidential report obtained by local media indicates that Manitoba may be one step closer to implementing photo radar.The 100-page document - prepared by a panel of government, pol...

Vehicle levy still a possibility

VANCOUVER, B.C. - TransLink released a report recently that blasted the former B.C. NDP government for killing the vehicle levy it had promised to legislate.Now the transit agency is appealing to the ...

Roadblocks could hinder next year’s G-8

KANANASKIS, Alta. - Truckers may want to plan ahead - way ahead - and avoid driving through Calgary from June 26 to 28, of next year.That's because activists are already planning to block all major ro...

Shedding some light on the future

WATERLOO, Ont. - Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) aren't just for show trucks anymore.New technology is driving prices down and Truck-Lite mid-west regional manager, Andrew Willms, says more and more truc...