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Saskatchewan trucking advisory forum created

REGINA, Sask. - Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation has created a Trucking Advisory Forum to get broad input from the public, shippers, business, carriers and industry on provincial trucking issu...

Diehl takes over STA

SASKATOON, Sask. - The owner of Ray's Transport has been elected to a two-year term as Saskatchewan Trucking Association president. Dennis Diehl, who succeeded his father as the owner of the Saskatoon...

The Negotiator

WHITBY, Ont. - Bill Wellman was quietly voted president of the National Truckers Association last April at a meeting in a mostly empty hockey rink in Whitby, Ont. His trucking career began at age 18 w...

Strength in numbers

DON MILLS, Ont. - You can pick any industry you choose and there is probably a better-than-even chance it has some kind of association linked to it. From flower store owners to building contractors, i...

Mark Dalton: Owner/Operator Just in Time – Part 3

- The story so far...Mark Dalton returns to Toronto and checks up on his post office box where he receives his bills and checks. Everything is in order, but when he drops into a nearby coffee shop he ...

U.S. truck cops are people, too (December 01, 2000)

A few years back I was doing a "milk run" across the Eastern U.S. After delivering in Arkansas, I picked up an LTL load in Memphis, Tenn. and then scooted over to a little hick town on the northwest s...

Century S/T sheds weight

DALLAS, Tex. - Designed specifically for the weight-sensitive needs of dry and liquid bulk haulers, Freightliner has shed approximately 1,200 lb. in the design of its new lightweight Century Class S/T...

The need for speed:

TORONTO, Ont. - Truck engines are getting more powerful, highways are getting more crowded, and deadlines are getting tighter. So exactly what speed is considered safe?At the same time, what makes the...

Getting the record straight

There are a number of areas under the Highway Traffic Act where carriers may be charged along with the driver for offences that take place on the road.A general offense description reads that, "the op...

Dana Spicer Tire unit for trailers

DALLAS, Tex. - The Dana Spicer Heavy Axle and Brake unit has added a trailer-tire maintenance system to its line up.The system ensures that tire pressure is kept to a pre-set minimum, preventing tire ...

100 years of truck making

DON MILLS, Ont. - At the beginning of the 20th Century entrepreneurs like Gottlieb Daimler and Rudolf Diesel had already laid the first bricks in the foundation of truck building. In 1899, Monsieur Fe...

Trucking industry’s ups and downs will continue in 2001

The trucking industry can be excused for asking "what's next?" as the last year of the 20th century, or the first year of the new millennium, comes to an end.The last year has been tumultuous: sky-roc...

U.S. law to mandate tire monitoring devices

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Out-going U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a bill into law last month that calls for legislation within three years to mandate tire inflation monitoring devices on all new motor v...

Transport exec makes top 100

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - Lori Van Opstal, founder and president of Cambridge, Ont.-based transportation service company Your Advantage Staffing Consultants Inc., has been named number 69 on Profit and Chatel...

Planting roots:

QUINTE WEST, Ont. - At a ceremony held in the former municipality of Trenton, Ont., dignitaries from Great Dane Trailers officially "turned the sod" in advance of construction on the company's first C...