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BCTA warns rates must rise to keep pace with fuel costs

The B.C. Trucking Association has warned its customers that freight rates must increase to keep pace with rising fuel costs. The association, which represents more than 800 trucking and bus companies,...

fuel for thought

As Motortruck was going to press, independent truckers angry over the failure to strike an acceptable deal on fuel surcharges were blockading grocery terminals and gravel pits and threatening to shut ...

… but OTA has worries about IRP

TORONTO, Ont. - Fears about increases in registration fees for trucking companies have spurred the Ontario Trucking Association to call for a new official launch date for the implementation of the Int...

‘Dead angles’

MONTREAL, Que. - Quebec truckers frustrated with cars driving in their blind spots may see some relief this year thanks to a new "Watch the Blind Spots" campaign.Highway signs, radio and newspaper ads...

Quebec study finds:

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - In the battle for public acceptance, trucking appears to be gaining ground in the province of Quebec.Transports Quebec and the Quebec Trucking Association (QTA) sent out three surv...

Ontario extending 404

TORONTO, Ont. - Ontario will invest $37 million to extend and widen Hwy. 404, which links Eastern Toronto to some of its northern neighbors.The announcement includes an extension from Davis Drive to G...

OTA looking for fuel tax relief

TORONTO, Ont. - With crude oil prices hovering at a 10-year high, the Ontario Trucking Association has sent a formal request to the provincial government asking Premier Mike Harris to revisit the issu...

Highway officials want to re-locate elk

UNION BAY, B.C. - Highway's officials are trying to relocate about 45 Roosevelt elk who have found themselves on the wrong side of a fence lining the Vancouver Island Highway.Eight of the animals have...

Saskatchewan farmers urged to haul in winter

REGINA, Sask. - In an effort to reduce wear and tear on the province's highways, Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation is encouraging farmers to consider hauling their grain during the winter month...

Risky business?

WINNIPEG, Man. - If recent examples are anything to go by - such as the high profile case of a shipment of weapons grade plutonium to Chalk River, Ont. (see Truck News, January 2000) - the transportat...

U.S. House panel approves Customs cash

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House Treasury and Postal Subcommittee recently approved the long-awaited appropriations bill that includes funding for the U.S. Customs Service's Automated Commercial Envi...

Mullen acquires oilfield company

ALDERSYDE, Alta. - Mullen Transportation has purchased all of the shares in the E-Can Oilfield Services Group of Companies, in a deal that closed Aug. 31.E-Can, based in Elk Point, Alta., provides oil...

Trucks blamed for killer bee migration

GUELPH, Ont. - As if truckers aren't blamed for enough, they've now been targeted as a source of African killer bees.Medhat Nasr, a biologist with the University of Guelph, believes the bees are hitch...

Drivers need government help

Dear Editor,I am a trucker's wife and advocate for truckers' rights. I have written to various transport ministries regarding (a number of issues involving) unscrupulous companies out here.But if a dr...

Argument about hours is flawed

Dear Editor,We have read with some considerable interest, indeed amazement, your Editorial Comment in the July 2000 issue of Truck News (Teamsters campaign is misguided). While there are so many point...