Economy

Queen’s Park nixes TO’s highway toll wish

TORONTO -- Toronto Mayor David Miller may want highway drivers and truckers to dig the city out of its financial mess, but the province has other ideas.

Alberta installs over-height warning systems for truckers

EDMONTON -- In an effort to reduce the number and severity of over height collisions of trucks with highway overpasses, Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation has installed advance clearance warning signs and high load warning systems at a number of locations across the province.

Brown expands green fleet nation-wide

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- UPS Canada says it's rolling out 139 additional cleaner-burning, propane delivery trucks across the country.

PeopleNet wins prestigious telematics award

MINNEAPOLIS -- PeopleNet Communications has won Frost & Sullivan's 2007 North American Regional Fleet Telematics Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award.

Infrastructure, borders get big cash boost in budget

OTTAWA -- Canada's crumbling infrastructure got a $33 billion- cash infusion yesterday, making it, the government says, the largest single federal investment in public infrastructure since World War II.

Think tank recommends tolls on Quebec highways, bridges

MONTREAL -- Electronic tolls on all of Quebec's main highways would bring in up to $1.6 billion per year, according to an economic note published by the Montreal Economic Institute.

Battling the Blahs

How some guy's bad mood can be your corporate liability

Sask approves first leg on all-weather northern route

WOLLASTON LAKE, Sask. -- Initial clearing work is set to begin on the longest new road right-of-way in Saskatchewan

Crude hauler wins internal Mullen award

CALGARY -- The Mullen Group says its Heavy Crude Hauling L.P. division has won the company Grand Prize Safety Award (GPSA) for 2007.

Heavy-Duty OEM group appoints VP

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association (HDMA), a market segment association of the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA), has appointed Mark Iasiello to vice president, Member Development.

Canada-US surface trade edges higher Dec. 07

WASHINGTON -- Surface transportation trade between the U.S. and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners was 3.1 percent higher in December 2007 than in December 2006, reaching $60.9 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

School of Rot

LOS ANGELES - Where else but in La La Land would they transform an aging stinking eyesore into a truck school?

All aboard: eastern ports get new personnel

OTTAWA -- A handful of ports in Eastern Canada will have some new faces around the table the next time their Board of Directors sits down to meet.

Canadian to lead Kenworth 2008 Service Council

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Kenworth Truck Company has named its 2008 Kenworth Service Council which will be chaired by Frank Chiarizia of Inland Kenworth in Burnaby, B.C.

Goodyear gets Penske’s supplier award

AKRON, Ohio -- Penske Truck Leasing presented Goodyear Tire & Rubber with its Outstanding Achievement Award for 2007, a first for a tire supplier.