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Garbage and cash should stay here

Dear editor,Regarding the complaints over Toronto's ongoing garbage issue, it just slays me that this garbage has been going past people's doorstep for the past four or five years without anyone notic...

Boat rates jump thanks to higher fuel costs

ST. JOHN'S Nfld. - Marine Atlantic, the Crown corporation that sails ferries to and from Newfoundland, has added an 8.5 per cent surcharge, which came into force Feb. 1According to the operator's spok...

New truck-friendly Hwy. 403 stop

BRANTFORD, Ont. - The first service centre on Hwy. 403 in the Brantford, Ont., region now has its pumps switched on and is open for business.Bikram Dhillon and his partner, Major Dhillon, say they've ...

Taking the wiggle out of the wagon

PORTLAND, Ore. - Doubles and triples are obviously more efficient than single trailers, they're simply bigger. (That is why they're called long combination vehicles [LCVs].) But under certain conditio...

NTA fights to get up off the canvas

OSHAWA, Ont. - It appears reports of the National Truckers Association's (NTA) death may have been premature.Not only is it alive, it's now armed with a strategy to become a truly national owner/opera...

Proposed second highway through Niagara Region farmland draws fire

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The mayor of Niagara Falls, Ont. is concerned that a proposed new highway tentatively planned to run parallel to the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) will hurt his city's tourist econo...

Minister to reject task force plan to delay new truckers

WINNIPEG, Man. - The Manitoba government says it will ignore its MLA task force on graduated licensing's recommendation that would extend the minimum age a person could get their commercial licence fr...

New Ont./Que. weights and dimensions

QUEEN'S PARK, Ont. - New weights and dimensions laws aimed at bringing Ontario and Quebec one step closer to harmonization officially came into effect as of the first of this year.According to officia...

B.C. group insures over the Web

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The B.C. Automobile Association has leapt into the millennium and on to the information highway as the first insurer in the western-most province to offer online real-time optional a...

Wabash National buys Breadner

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Wabash National has acquired the Breadner Group for undisclosed terms."It gives our customers access to broader, more innovative product lines" and allows Breadner to better serve ...

Truck Insurance specialists join forces

HARTLAND, N.B. - Two trucking-insurance specialists - Safety Insurance Service (1959) and Safety Insurance Services (Atlantic) - have joined to form an unbrella corporation, The Safety Group.Safety (1...

Revenue Canada’s price tag for lunch, and other unsettling issues

OK, time for some follow-up and then question and answers.First, the follow-up. Not surprisingly, I had several calls from surprised and somewhat angry drivers regarding federal government per-diem me...

Pete upgrades trannie spec’s

Denton, Tex. - Peterbilt has changed its transmission offerings in a bid to further the durability and performance of its product lines.The RT Series 10-speed transmission has been replaced with Eaton...

No shelter from the storm

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The failure rate of U.S. trucking firms with more than five trucks hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2000, according to data compiled by the St. Louis, Mo.-based consulting...

Hendrickson, Intl., and Delphi Auto develop bumper

WOODRIDGE, Ill. - Hendrickson International and Delphi Automotive Systems are developing a composite bumper for the bus and medium- and heavy-duty truck markets.The composites, originally developed fo...