Feature Stories
TORONTO, Ont. -- "Trucking driving: a great job for people who hate people." While you probably won't see this slogan included on the cover of a trucking company's recruitment brochure any time soon, this was the argument made in a recent...
Dec 22, 2010
TORONTO, Ont. -- By chance, I landed a week-long city run with a leased International ProStar+ paired with a production model EPA2010-compliant MaxxForce 13 engine. I've been anxious to try this engine because there's quite a bit of buzz about...
Dec 12, 2010
AYR, Ont. -- Brian Taylor, founder and president of Liberty Linehaul, was elected chairman of the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) in November - a lofty chair indeed, which has been traditionally occupied by an industry leader with far more...
Dec 10, 2010
Packaging optimization is an area of the supply chain that has long received too little attention. But its benefits are becoming more and more known, not only to consumers fed up with extra garbage, but to the transportation industry too.
Dec 6, 2010
MT: I think the only thing that we can accurately predict about fuel pricing is that it is going to be volatile. When you look ahead with your own supply chain budgets, how do you factor that in? Where do you expect fuel pricing to go, and how...
Nov 29, 2010
GUELPH, Ont. -- Long-haul trucking is a physically demanding job. Not in the same way that, say, construction work is physically demanding, but by spending the bulk of your shift parked on your keister, spending your nights cramped in your...
Nov 17, 2010
TORONTO, Ont. -- When passing time on a recent drive between Boise, Id. and Seattle, Wash., Sean Graham noticed a surprising number of trailers with side fairings, and so he decided to keep count. The final tally revealed more than 10% of the...
Nov 15, 2010
If you're like most fleet managers, you are constantly looking for ways to improve the quality and productivity of your work trucks, while at the same time reducing your maintenance and operating costs. One of the best strategies to accomplish...
Nov 1, 2010
Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz are credited with introducing the first internal combustion vehicle in 1886. But Canadians were initially more interested in battery-powered trucks. In 1898, mercantile visionary Robert Simpson of Toronto, bought...
Oct 27, 2010
Wind turbines, perched on faraway hilltops, with their skinny little blades and pencil-thin towers, are bigger than they look. But 700,000 pounds apiece bigger?
Oct 19, 2010
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