Business Management CUSMA review must consider trucking input by Stephen Laskowski Simply put, the trucking industry is a demand-derived service sector. The members of all three national North American trucking associations – the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), American Trucking Associations (ATA)…
Health & Safety This is the year to improve MELT by Mike Millian This year promises new and positive opportunities regarding mandatory entry-level training (MELT) in Canada. For starters, Newfoundland officially implemented its MELT program on Jan. 3. The other Atlantic provinces will…
Health & Safety Meet the most widely ridiculed company in trucking by James Menzies Chohan Freight Forwarders has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the most disliked and widely ridiculed trucking companies in all of Canada. This is an achievement not to…
Business Management A united trucking industry is a stronger trucking industry by Mike McCarron Making New Year’s resolutions is not my bag. Never had much interest in dealing with my most undesirable traits. This year, though, I’m making a resolution for the Canadian trucking…
Business Management What’s in store for 2024 by Angela Splinter The last three years have proven the need for a skilled, engaged, and productive trucking and logistics workforce, and 2024 will be no different. From drivers to warehouse workers, office…
Equipment A lifetime of tire talk provides valuable learnings by David Henry There’s something that I’ve found constantly tiring throughout my trucking career. Tires, and paying for more tires. Actually, my interest in tires took hold before I even got into trucking,…
Business Management Add your voice to help CTA pursue full 2024 agenda by Greg Munden It may be an inside baseball cliché to many of us in the industry, but I never tire of reminding people who I know that: “If you got it, it…
Regulations Do speed cameras impact CVOR safety ratings? by Noah Bonis Charancle Does this situation seem familiar? Long after what you remember as an uneventful drive, you receive a letter in the mail stating you were caught speeding by a speed camera…
Business Management OTA ready to take on key trucking issues in 2024 by James Steed The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has been the voice of trucking at Queen’s Park for close to 100 years. The nature of trucking has obviously changed over that time –…
Health & Safety Hopes for a healthy 2024 by David Henry Well, here we go barreling from one year to the next like a runaway truck on a 12% grade. As I get older, the days seem to accelerate exponentially. It’s…
Transportation Being humble doesn’t mean being weak by Rolf Lockwood After spending some 77 years on this sorry planet, 43 of them in trucking, I’ve learned some things. The value of humility was one of the first, and maybe the…
Business Management When shiny toys like Convoy don’t quite work by Mike McCarron Convoy, the darling digital broker that promised to disrupt the supply chain, has closed its doors. It looks like eliminating the middle man isn’t as easy in trucking as it…
Business Management Fuel fraud: The ‘silent epidemic’ facing the trucking industry by James Menzies Does it feel lately that, every time you turn around, someone’s trying to rip you off? I wouldn’t blame you. I’ve spent enough time lately writing about clever and highly…
Infrastructure Clogged highways come at a steep cost by John G Smith This column would have been completed sooner, but I was stuck in traffic. There’s nothing unusual about that. Not in the Greater Toronto Area. The commute from my home in…
Regulations New Ontario towing regulations coming in January by Conal Calvert The return of winter to Ontario brings with it the busy season for heavy towing on the province’s highways. Dangerous conditions bring with them certain tow truck operators who see…
