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Trucking community salutes Vernon Erb

WILMOT TOWNSHIP, Ont. – Hundreds of vehicles descended on Wilmot, Ont., on Friday to honor its most famous resident, Vernon Erb. Erb, 84, founder of the Erb Group of Companies,…

CTA’s Laskowski named to Covid-19 Supply Council

OTTAWA, Ont. – The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) has been named to Canada’s Covid-19 Supply Council, which will advise the government on the procurement of critical goods and services during…

Remembering 25 years in the trucking press

Anniversaries can sneak up on you, or so it seems. As the calendar turned to May 1, it suddenly dawned on me that I began writing about the trucking industry…

FMCSA relaunches Crash Preventability Determination Program

WASHINGTON, D. C. – The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has relaunched an expanded Crash Preventability Determination Program (CPDP). Commercial drivers with an eligible crash that occurred…

Alberta commercial vehicle enforcement to get new look

RED DEER, Alta. – Commercial vehicle enforcement in Alberta has been moved to the Alberta Sheriffs department, within the province’s Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General. But truck drivers shouldn’t…

Ontario has temporary exemptions for truckers during Covid-19

Ontario issued a province-wide Declaration of Emergency on March 17 in response to Covid-19. Since then, the government has further extended the Declaration of Emergency until at least May 12.

Support your immune system

Supporting the immune system has been a big topic of conversation lately, given the Covid-19 pandemic, but there’s another important reason to support our body in being able to heal…

Should North America start its own oil cartel?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Today I’m going to change that to a thousand ships. That’s about how many there are out there carrying crude oil,…

TravelCenters revamps leadership

WESTLAKE, Ohio — TravelCenters of America announced Friday that it has launched a company-wide reorganization to improve its operational efficiency and profitability. The announcement came just weeks after the…

Bollinger to build Class 3 electric chassis cab

Michigan-based Bollinger Motors has announced plans to produce an all-electric Class 3 chassis-cab truck platform – the B2 Chassis Cab. Features include a 5,000-lb payload and 10 kw on-board…

Canadian technician among Penske’s best

Mark Parisotto has gone from tearing down lawnmower engines in his father’s garage, to being recognized as one of the best Penske technicians in North America

Continental dropping RoadLog ELD

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The market for electronic logging devices (ELD) is about to become one supplier smaller, as Continental discontinues new sales of the RoadLog ELD, effective today. Until…

Alberta truck fleets face double hit of Covid-19, low oil

EDMONTON, Alta. – Canada’s trucking industry was sent reeling by Covid-19, but the economic fallout of a pandemic has added insult to injury in Alberta. This year was supposed to…

Sikh truckers’ bid for helmet exemption fails   

OTTAWA, Ont. — Three Sikh truck drivers working at the Port of Montreal have effectively lost their bid for exemption from wearing hard hats after the Supreme Court of…

Ontario launches 511 app to inform truck drivers

TORONTO, Ont. – Ontario has established a free 511 app that provides truck drivers with some of the information needed to remain fed and rested while on the job…