Business Tips

Shell offers heavy-duty technician scholarships

CALGARY -- Shell Canada and the Heavy Duty Distributor Council of Canada (HDDC) are teaming up to help address the shortage of technical workers in the trucking industry with the introduction of the Heavy Duty Technician Scholarship.

Rocky Mountain trainer climbing higher peaks

CASTLEGAR, B.C. -- Mountain Transport Institute Ltd. has inked a driver training partnership with one of the more innovative carriers in Canada.

WSIB slashes trucking rates

TORONTO -- For the second straight year, Ontario's Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) has cut General Trucking rates.

New Saskatchewan pre-trip rules to take affect soon

REGINA -- In a few weeks, all commercial vehicles operating in Saskatchewan over 5,000 kg and any trailers in transit must be inspected by the driver or a qualified person every 24 hours.

PIC 2.0: Alberta re-launches improved carrier compliance program

EDMONTON -- It's back. And now that Alberta's one-of-a-kind Partners in Compliance (PIC) program has been given a real shot to succeed, its rescuers are already working on exporting it to the rest of Canada and the U.S.

BCTA inks deal with CTHRC for driver-technician training program

OTTAWA, Ont. -- Future truck drivers who earn a new $3,000 training award from the British Columbia Trucking Association (BCTA) will be required to take an industry-approved training program developed

U.S. driver turnstile keeps spinning: ATA

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The driver turnover rate for large truckload and less-than-truckload carriers increased again during the first quarter of 2007, marking their highest turnover rates since the end of 2005.

New regs to toughen VanPort licence program

VANCOUVER -- Drayage companies working the Port of Vancouver who complain that container truck licensing rules restrict free-market enterprise won't like what's next for the sector.

Alleged truck licence mill uncovered in B.C.

SURREY, B.C. -- Authorities are investigating a B.C. truck-driving school for allegedly dolling out forged class 1 licence documents to about 160 Indian immigrants, the Globe & Mail reported this weekend.

Thunder Bay, Kenora police launch truck enforcement taskforce

THUNDER BAY, Ont. -- If you're hauling in northwestern Ontario these days you may have noticed an increased number of Boys 'n Blue perched to the side of the road.

Canadian truckers perform well at ’07 Roadcheck blitz: OOS rate down

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) is the first NAFTA agency to reports this year's CVSA Roadcheck results. The verdict? The large majority of Canadian truckers passed inspections with flying colors.

Provinces look to hike vitamin LCV in highway diet

TORONTO -- According to many at the Center of the Universe (COU), Ontario is the shaggy dog that wags the Canadian tail.

BREAKING NEWS: Ontario to mandate speed limiters

QUEEN'S PARK, Ont. -- The Ontario Trucking Association's dream of having the speed of every truck that hauls within the province limited to 105 km/h may soon be a reality.

U.S. Roadcheck shows marginal advances in safety

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The U.S. trucking industry showed improvement in truck safety, including an increase in the number of drivers wearing their safety belts,

Que speed limiter rule picks up momentum; Province mulls photo radar

QUEBEC CITY -- A few days after the Ontario Liberals promised to cap the speed of all trucks in the province at 105 km/h, Quebec's Minister of Transport says she'll push a road safety bill that would do the same thing.