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N.B. eliminates general freight quad permits

MONCTON, N.B. - The New Brunswick government has stopped its quiet program of issuing permits authorizing the use of quad-axles to haul general freight at weights of up to 28,000 kilograms, 2,000 kg h...

NSTSA launches OHS training

TRURO, N.S. - The Nova Scotia Trucking Safety Association (NSTSA) has launched an occupational health and safety training program to help reverse the skyrocketing increase in workers' compensation cla...

Cat gets nod from J. D. Power

DALLAS, Tex. - J.D. Power and Associates has handed Caterpillar heavy-duty diesel two top customer-satisfaction awards.The international marketing firm says the famous yellow power plants captured the...

Teleflex takes aim at the idle

DALLAS, Tex. - Teleflex says an idling truck wastes more than $350 of fuel every month while also needlessly increasing the stress placed on key engine components. As a result the company has introduc...

New X-One tire lightens the load

DALLAS, Tex. - Michelin launched a new tire design at the Great American Truck Show in Dallas, Texas last month. The X-One is being marketed as a more fuel-efficient alternative to traditional dual ti...

Freightliner issues brake recall

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Freightliner LLC has recalled about 133,000 of its air-brake equiped medium-duty and heavy-duty Business Class trucks built since May 1991.Trucks with hydraulic brakes and school bus...

Nabbed truck carried $14 million in hash

KINGSTON, Ont. - A multi-force police operation seized more than $14 million worth of hashish from a transport truck at a Mallorytown, Ont. gas station in early October.The hashish - weighing 572 kilo...

Windsor cracks down on truck- caused gridlock

WINDSOR, Ont. - Windsor police plan to clamp down on truckers who block Huron Church Road intersections, in response to concerns expressed by the city's fire chief.Windsor Fire and Rescue Service Chie...

Trucker acquitted in fatal crash

CALGARY, Alta. - A trucker involved in a fatal crash on Macleod Trail two years ago has been acquitted of criminal negligence and dangerous driving.Justice Patricia Rowbotham concluded that there was ...

Northern program certified by PTDI

NEW LISKEARD, Ont. - The Fifth Wheel Training Institute here has become the first school in Northern Ontario to be accredited by the Professional Truck Driver Institute for its AZ training program."It...

Calgary workers can’t call at wheel

CALGARY, Alta. - The City of Calgary is now prohibiting its workers from using cell phones when they're at the wheel.An estimated 1,500 workers - driving everything from pick-ups to garbage trucks - a...

Private Executive of the Year honored

TORONTO, Ont. - George Iacono, vice-president of Global Driver Services, has been named Executive of the Year for 2000 by the Private Motor Truck Council.Iacono was honured for his outstanding perform...

Ontario trucker heralded for saving lives

WALTON, Ky. - He may have been taking the only option he thought was open to him, but an Ontario trucker is being credited for saving lives in an accident on Interstate 75 in Kentucky.William Shields ...

Appeal tribunal created

OTTAWA, Ont. - Transport Canada has announced plans to draft legislation to create the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada, a quasi-judicial tribunal that would review enforcement actions taken a...

Government help isn’t the solution to fuel situation

It's the transportation columnist's curse: there's simply a never-ending array of issues to rant and rave about.In the past I have focused on a number of the issues I feel are important to the industr...