Transportation Navistar takeover? March 1, 2001 The company's call options were trading about normal in early February and it wouldn't explain why. Call options are agreements for a company's shares."I don't know what is going on," said one America...
Transportation More work in transport March 1, 2001 OTTAWA, Ont. - Statistics Canada reports employment in the transportation and warehousing sector increased from 787,800 in December to 788,100 in January. Overall, the employment rate was essentially ...
Things that go “bump” on the road preview image Transportation Things that go “bump” on the road March 1, 2001 It is frost-heave season once again - those nasty old bumps that seem to come out of nowhere only to disappear again a month or two down the road.Recently I was traveling at a high rate of fuel consum...
A Knights tale preview image Transportation A Knights tale March 1, 2001 TORONTO, Ont. - Around the Ontario Trucking Association's (OTA) main boardroom 12 eager men sit, faces transfixed in almost trance-like concentration.All eyes face front, glued to the television and a...
Mack ups market share for 8th year preview image Transportation Mack ups market share for 8th year March 1, 2001 LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. - Mack Trucks closed 2000 with 28,210 U.S. Class 8 retail sales, snatching 13.3 per cent of the market.That was up from 13.1 per cent in 1999, making Mack the only U.S. maker of Cla...
Freightliner targets O/Os to save used trucks preview image Transportation Freightliner targets O/Os to save used trucks March 1, 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. - North America's largest truck manufacturers says it is time somebody did something to prop-up used-truck prices, and the company's president and chief executive officer Jim Hebe says ...
Transportation Caring for coolant is like found money March 1, 2001 There are a wide variety of antifreezes out there today formulated to offer the safety of "long-life," "extended" or "fill-for-life" protection.Properly used, these mean substantial savings in prevent...
Transportation Truckers fume after NTA’s Wellman calls for audits March 1, 2001 BELLEVILLE, Ont. - When Bill Wellman stood in front of the national news media complaining that tired truckers threaten public safety, he certainly didn't win over any new names for his association's ...
Feds move to update MVTA preview image Transportation Feds move to update MVTA March 1, 2001 OTTAWA, Ont. - Federal Transport Minister David Collenette has reintroduced a series of amendments to the Motor Vehicle Transport Act, 1987, (MVTA) in the Senate."These amendments establish carrier sa...
Transportation Petro-Can faces impending strike March 1, 2001 CALGARY, Alta. - Petro-Canada has been served with a strike notice by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEPU).Petro-Canada and the union are negotiating the renewal of colle...
Transportation Road rage survival guide March 1, 2001 1. Stay calm.2. Avoid eye contact.3. Don't make hand gestures.4. If you think you're being followed, drive to a police station or crowded public place - but never to your home. At night, drive to a we...
Transportation Rage amongst the machines March 1, 2001 DRYDEN, Ont. - It can happen to any of us at any time, but for two truck drivers running through northwestern Ontario, road rage struck the night of Jan. 13.According to the OPP detachment in Dryden, ...
Transportation N.B. spells out IRP March 1, 2001 MONCTON, N.B. - New Brunswick in February held a series of information sessions to help the province's trucking industry get a handle on the International Registration Plan (IRP).The province, along w...
Transportation Record intermodal traffic at Halifax Port March 1, 2001 HALIFAX, N.S. - More than 500,000 intermodal cans moved through the Port of Halifax last year - a double-digit percentage increase over 1999's totals.Year-end figures were recently released and the po...
Transportation Take it easy passing ploughs March 1, 2001 ST. JOHN'S Nfld. - The RCMP and Newfoundland's Department of Works, Services and Transportation are advising truckers to use caution when passing ploughs on the right.The Rock's record snowfall this w...
