Tremcar signs dealership deal with Stainless Steel OMC Custom Fabrication

Tremcar announced a new dealership agreement with Stainless Steel OMC Custom Fabrication, based in Turlock, Calif., for the sales of food-grade tanker trailers. Tremcar was impressed with the experience and…

Ontario pushes reset button on MELT for new truck drivers

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has hit the reset button on mandatory entry-level training (MELT) for commercial truck driver Class A licences. The MTO has ordered driver certification program…

Lion Electric lays off another 150 employees

Lion Electric, Quebec-based manufacturer of electric trucks, announced a reduction of its workforce through temporary layoffs of approximately 150 employees, in both Canada and the U.S., across all departments within the organization. Following…

Truck driver charged for replacing broken window with duct tape

Provincial police in Ontario charged a commercial vehicle driver after they were caught using duct tape as a makeshift replacement for a broken driver’s side window.  On Dec. 8, 2024,…

Federal government takes step to curb LMIA abuse

The federal government has removed one of the incentives that has been fueling the abuse of Canada’s labor market impact assessment (LMIA) program. As part of ongoing efforts to prevent…

U.S. officials nab truckers at Ontario border with 483 kg of cocaine in trailer

U.S. border officials arrested two truck drivers attempting to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Canada. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stopped a British Columbia-registered tractor hauling…

Bendix finalizes R.H. Sheppard sale to affiliate of Balmoral Funds

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, a North American subsidiary of Knorr-Bremse, announced the company finalized the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, commercial vehicle steering systems manufacturer R.H. Sheppard to an…

Scan Global Logistics to acquire ITN Logistics Group

Logistics provider Scan Global Logistics (SGL) has signed an agreement to acquire freight forwarder ITN Logistics Group in Canada. The acquisition of ITN will strengthen SGL’s Canadian operations by bringing…

FedEx to separate FedEx Freight, create new company

FedEx announced that its board of directors has concluded a comprehensive assessment of the role of FedEx Freight as part of its portfolio and has decided to pursue a full…

Two Canadians named finalists for TCA’s Highway Angels of the Year award

Two Canadian drivers – Daljit Sohi driving for Triple Eight Transport, Abbotsford, B.C., and Joseph Carroll driving for Elgin Motor Freight, London, Ont. – are among the five finalists for…

Mentorship, responsible practices could prevent trucks from hitting B.C. overpasses

Commercial vehicles have hit overpasses, bridges and infrastructure on 29 occasions in British Columbia this year. There was at least one incident a month, with March witnessing a whopping five…

Limit exposure to vicarious liability, carriers warned

Canadian carriers hauling freight in the United States should be aware that if their vehicle is involved in a crash, and during litigation a jury finds the trucking company 1%…

DAT Freight & Analytics acquires Trucker Tools’ operations

Truckload freight marketplace and freight data analytics service provider DAT Freight & Analytics has acquired the operations of Trucker Tools, a carrier-forward capacity sourcing and load-tracking solution. The acquisition will…

Lion Electric defaults on debt, plans to seek creditor protection

Lion Electric, a Quebec-based manufacturer of electric trucks and buses, says it expects to seek protection from creditors under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. The company says it has defaulted…

Greed driving truck training schools toward disaster

It’s pretty flat in Ontario’s trucking heartland, but it appears that some truck driving schools in the area are quickly sliding down a slippery slope to the murky bottom of…