Transportation Ferrography follow thru April 1, 2001 Dear Editor,Regarding an article on page 31 of the March 2001 issue of Truck News, about Ferrography, I can't find a way to locate the company involved, Munroe Equipment Sciences from Winnipeg. I woul...
Transportation Qualcomm buys Eaton’s Information Services Division April 1, 2001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions has purchased the assets of Eaton's Trucking Information Services business unit.The deal included Eaton's FleetAdvisor transportation-logistics...
Transportation Canada opts for U.S. air statutes April 1, 2001 OTTAWA, Ont. - The Canadian government has decided to mirror U.S. law makers and is imposing tight limits on emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM), in addition to calling f...
Transportation D-Day is here for IRP April 1, 2001 TORONTO, Ont. - The rollover by Canada's seven eastern-most provinces from the old Canadian Vehicle Registration system into the International Registration Plan (IRP) is Apr. 1.So far the only potenti...
Transportation Don’t lump all of us together April 1, 2001 Dear Editor,Regarding your story: Licence Mills Threaten Future of Trucking (Truck News, January 2001, p. 6).As an owner/instructor of a truck driver training school in Kamloops, B.C., I found John G....
Windfall from strike shrinks on the way to O/Os preview image Transportation Windfall from strike shrinks on the way to O/Os March 1, 2001 MONTREAL, Que. - Intermodal owner/operators are earning more cash as a result of the Montreal strike late last fall - just not as much as they'd hoped.Carriers applied a $50-per-container surcharge to...
Transportation Fergus divides truck show loot March 1, 2001 FERGUS, Ont. - All of the bills have been paid and the organizers of the 2000 Fergus Truck Show say $25,600 has officially been raised for the community groups assisting with last year's running of th...
Ambassadors to Quebec preview image Transportation Ambassadors to Quebec March 1, 2001 BOUCHERVILLE, Que. - The voice of trucking in Quebec just became a lot clearer, thanks to eight truckers who have been selected to spread the gospel of the industry.Chosen on Jan. 25, the company driv...
Transportation Toronto ponders one-day vehicle ban March 1, 2001 TORONTO, Ont. - The City of Toronto is considering banning vehicles for an entire day, in its efforts to reduce smog."Sure, we should try it for a day," says Betty Disero, chairwoman of Toronto's work...
Alta. study underway preview image Transportation Alta. study underway March 1, 2001 CALGARY, Alta. - Alberta's much anticipated Fatigue Management Program has begun examining the issue of truck-driver fatigue.Lane Kranenburg, general manager of the Alberta Trucking Industry Safety As...
The Dispatcher – Part 2 preview image Transportation The Dispatcher – Part 2 March 1, 2001 The story so far ...When Bud the dispatcher doesn't have a load ready, Mark gets on his case and ends up telling him that dispatching can't be all that hard. Bud suggests Mark take his place for a cou...
Clark is in, Turnbull moves preview image Transportation Clark is in, Turnbull moves March 1, 2001 QUEEN'S PARK, Ont. - Brad Clark, MPP Stoney Creek, has replaced David Turnbull as the new Minister of Transportation for Ontario after a cabinet shuffle that rewarded ultra-conservative members of cau...
Transportation Alta. slashes debt with oil cash March 1, 2001 EDMONTON, Alta. - Alberta's finance minister Steve West says his province is poised to cut its accumulated debt by $5.6 billion thanks to the booming oil-and -gas industry.In his third-quarter budget ...
Will the new Ontario finance minister hear us out? preview image Transportation Will the new Ontario finance minister hear us out? March 1, 2001 The departure of Ernie Eves, Ontario's finance minister and Premier Mike Harris' right-hand man for the past six years, creates a new dynamic in trucking tax issues.Eves, who has a family connection t...
It has been a great six years preview image Transportation It has been a great six years March 1, 2001 Spring has always been a benchmark for new things - a time to take stock in what you have done and what you have to do. It was in the spring of 1995 that I accepted this job.So it's fitting, perhaps, ...
