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Insurance: Insurance Crisis Looming

As if escalating fuel costs, dimmer prospects for freight volumes and worsening labor relations were not enough to worry about, now there are indications the trucking industry could be facing an insur...

Freightliner unveils innovations for lighter and safer trucks

Freightliner used the Great American Trucking Show as the platform for a number of new product announcements, including a lighter Century Class S/T, tubular side air bags, dry van offerings and a new ...

CTA urges Ottawa to get more involved in trucking

The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) wants Ottawa to take a more active role "in promoting a safe, competitive, viable and environmentally sustainable transportation and trucking industry."Speaking to...

Freightliner ready to take on dot.coms over parts business

Freightliner LLC is launching a suite of customer Internet sites to meet carrier demands for conducting business online, including a site that will compete with current dot.coms in allowing truckers t...

DEAL MAKER?

For months now the renewed fuel crisis has placed National Truckers Association president Bill Wellman at the centre of a media firestorm, high-level negotiations and angry trucker protests. Wellman, ...

Fuel for Thought column was thought provoking

Your Viewpoint column, "Fuel for Thought" in the September/ October issue was an excellent one. It was thought provoking and clear in its recommendations.I have been an owner/operator and have over th...

Quebec police target vandals

MONTREAL, Que. - Police in Quebec are searching for the culprits in a series of highway rock-throwing incidents.Since Sept. 30, four vehicles have been struck by rocks hurled from the Notre Dame overp...

QTA endorses four more Expocams

MONTREAL, Que. - The Quebec Trucking Association has renewed its support for the Expocam truck show for the next eight years, covering four of the biannual events.The next installment of the three-day...

Illegal smokes are seized at weigh station

WINNIPEG, Man. - A weigh station inspection in southeastern Manitoba has netted one of the provincial tax department's largest seizures of illegal cigarettes.More than 6,500 cartons of the Ontario smo...

Exploding tire may have killed

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Police believe that a 39-year-old member of a road repair crew in Thunder Bay, Ont. was killed by an exploding truck tire.John Kornylo was found face down on the ground on Oct. 16,...

STA hands out scholarships

REGINA, Sask. - The Saskatchewan Trucking Associa-tion's Associate Trades has handed out a series of scholarships - three worth $1,000 each.Jason Kachur was awarded the 2000 Highway Agencies' $1,000 s...

Mark Dalton: Owner/Operator Just in Time – Part 2

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

Oil upgrades by the letters and numbers

Say what you will about the technological marvel that is a modern engine, but they all require motor oil as their first line of defence. And at no time has the quality of your oil been more important ...

U.S. truck cops are people, too (November 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...

Just a call away

So it's good to know that there are lifelines available. Just about every North American truck manufacturer and engine builder offers toll-free 800 numbers for support.Humans that field calls from str...