Brampton trucker hits lotto payday

BRAMPTON, Ont. -- Like many Ontario truckers, Brampton truck driver Adelino De-Sousa was dealing with adverse weather on Dec. 11 and likely dreaming of someplace warm when he checked a print-out of the winning Lotto 6/49 numbers in the cab of...

CarriersEdge turns five, continues to grow through recession

MARKHAM, Ont. -- CarriersEdge turned five today, having provided more than 100,000 training modules to Canadian drivers.

Cummins Canada promotes Whitney to national role

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Cummins Canada has named Adam Whitney its new national account executive.

CTHRC’s expertise sought by European trucking industry

OTTAWA, Ont. -- European professional drivers will be receiving some improved training, thanks in part to work done on this side of the pond by the Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council (CTHRC).

Emerging leaders to discuss future of road transportation

BRAMPTON, Ont. -- How will road transportation change in the years to come? What will drive the change? Come and hear from the future leaders who will be impacted by and shape that change at the Future Leaders 2010 Roundtable being held...

BEYOND THE WHEEL: The human resource challenges extend to non-driving positions

When the industry speaks of human resource issues, the talk is almost always centred around the need for drivers. Yet, trucking is experiencing difficulties recruiting and retaining many other key non...

Decisions 2011

The recession was brutal and deep. The recovery is bumpy and slow. Rising above it all is the greatest challenge our industry has to face. Prepare your company for the storms and opportunities ahead w...

Rise above it all

We can't say we weren't warned. Most economists forecasted a slow and volatile recovery through 2010 and that's exactly what we're getting now that the initial economic boom of the first quarter has f...

The driver shortage is the industry’s best friend?

The driver shortage, which is expected to get much worse in the years ahead, could prove a vital aid in helping trucking companies improve their profitability and find a way to pay their drivers bette...

My HR Space: Inside the Numbers

It may seem sometimes like the trucking industry gets little respect, whether it's from the general public, the mainstream media or legislators. But by its sheer size alone, the trucking industry commands respect. Statistics Canada is five...

data driven decisions

Trucks may be powered by burning diesel, but the successful business plans behind them require fuel of another sort - and it comes in the form of accurate data.

Are you meeting their needs?

Last year, we were alarmed to find that job satisfaction had dropped to its lowest level since the start of the survey, with the national job satisfaction level calculated at a mere 3.13 out of 5. That's barely a C grade. Even more alarming was...

Can you meet their needs?

Sometimes the most pleasant of surprises come during the most dire of circumstances. When we wrote last year that human resource management in 2010 would not be for the faint of heart, we were in the midst of the worst recession of the post-War...

Driver Satisfaction Survey

Over the course of the past year, company drivers and owner/operators were invited to participate in our fifth annual national Driver Satisfaction Survey in a variety of ways. E-mail invites were sent to a subset of the circulation of Truck...

Driver shortage, HoS reduction keeping US fleet execs up at night

DALLAS, Texas - There are several issues weighing heavily on the minds of US fleet executives who were speaking at the Commercial Vehicle Outlook last month in Dallas, and they may not be what you'd e...