Business Tips

B.C. gravel haulers waiting for New Year to take action

VANCOUVER -- Disgruntled gravel truck owner-operators in B.C.'s Lower Mainland have decided not to play Scrooge during the holiday season and will until the New Year to decide how to deal with declining hauling rates.

New England states LCV pilot closer to reality

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. bill that includes establishing long combination vehicle (LCV) pilot projects in two northeast border states could be approved as early as this weekend.

End truck-killing RR crossings: TSB

MALLORYTOWN, Ont. -- There are thousands of potentially deadly railway crossings in Canada and they should be fixed as soon as possible.

Drug-testing rules for domestic truckers relaxed

TORONTO -- Reefer screening (and no, we don't mean refrigerated trailers) for domestic truck drivers may be acceptable in some circumstances under human rights rules.

Strike Over: DriveTest centers to reopen in Jan

TORONTO -- The strike by Ontario's 590 driving examiners at 93 drive-test sites is over and they'll be back to work in the New Year, but the crippling effects of the four-and-a-half-month dispute will be felt for a long time to come.

DRIVER MANAGEMENT

Tenstreet introduces software to enhance driver communication and compliance

CVSA’s safe driver campaign has mixed results

WASHINGTON -- The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's (CVSA) annual Operation Safe Driver education and enforcement blitz last year saw improvements in both drivers and vehicles regarding the number of out-of-service (OOS) violations and citations issued per roadside commercial vehicle safety inspection.

Truckers’ meal tax break almost fully restored

OTTAWA -- The Ministry of Finance continued serving up its meal tax allowance recipe for truck drivers this New Year.

Education period kicks in for new cargo securement rules

OTTAWA -- Two new cargo securement rules kicked in on Jan. 1, but truckers will be given a 12-month educational period before official enforcement begins.

Backlog expected as Ontario test centres reopen

TORONTO -- After a four-month deadlock, the labour dispute at Ontario's DriveTest Centres ended with services resuming yesterday.

Truckers confer on apnea nightmare

ARLINGTON, Va. -- This is one conference you won't want to doze through.

AVATRUCK: Scientists working on vehicles that change themselves

BOSTON, Mass. -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working with the Ford Motor Company to see if it's possible to produce vehicles smart enough to measure a driver's emotional state and react accordingly.

Driver blames trucker for flying ice injuries

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- A passenger car driver in the Chicago area is lucky to be alive after a large chunk of snow and ice dislodged from the top of a moving tractor-trailer and slammed through his windshield.

ATA outlines safety priorities

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The American Trucking Associations encouraged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to focus on driver behavior as a top safety priority in its 2010-2015 Strategic Plan.

Transport sector still leads Canada job losses

OTTAWA -- Transportation and warehousing were two sectors of the Canadian economy to see job losses in December, according to Statistics Canada.