Let’s Talk Insurance: How Stable Is Your Insurance Provider?

One of your trucks is involved in an accident involving multiple third-party injuries and damages, resulting in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against you.

A Trucker’s Wife: Helpful Hints for a Wife’s Well Being

As a trucker's wife, many questions may come up. Questions concerning home life, meals, children, laundry, how we deal with being alone and even trucking questions.

Future Looking Bright for Canadian Inverter Manufacturer

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Xantrex Technology, a Canadian provider of inverter/chargers for heavy-duty trucks, recently completed its first quarter as a public company while continuing to double its OEM sales every year since it entered the business four y...

Is grease the new word?

Meyers Transport's Al Thompson is confident that 2,000 wheel ends will never spill a drop of oil under his watch. It's quite a claim, really, given the prevalence of leaking wheel seals throughout the trucking industry, but he can take the stance...

Sunoco revamps Gold Diesel for improved performance

Sunoco has re-formulated its Gold Diesel to enhance its performance characteristics.

How to make sales happen just a little faster

Building trust and creating a sense of urgency go a long way towards moving the sales cycle forward...

Tele Atlas and ProMiles partner on routing, logistics solutions

Tele Atlas, a provider of digital maps and location content, and ProMiles Software Development Corp. (PSDC), are collaborating to bring the power of ProMiles XF and TruckMiles truck routing applications and Tele Atlas' turn-by-turn map data to tru...

No Rest for the Weary

OTTAWA, Ont. - Difficulties finding a safe and legal haven to sleep are only going to get worse for truck drivers, according to the executive director of the Owner-Operators' Business Association of Canada (OBAC), Joanne Ritchie.

Alberta May Close Highways During Storms

EDMONTON, Alta. - Alberta Transportation is considering closing highways during severe winter weather for snow-clearing efforts and to deter motorists from driving when conditions are hazardous.

TransForce Continues Buying Spree With Highland Acquisition

TORONTO, Ont. - Ontario carriers beware - there's a new kid on the block.

Driver “Muskles” His Way Into the Hearts of All Who Know Him

OAKVILLE, Ont. - Come Sept. 10, Denne Kornechuk will be trading his truck driving clothes for the starched white navy outfit of Popeye the Sailor Man.

On-Road Editor: Becoming a Successful Owner/Operator

TORONTO, Ont. - Becoming an owner/operator is as easy as eating apple pie, right? There seems to be plenty of work out there, truck dealers have parking lots full of bargains, and carriers are competing to attract independent contractors.

Tips on Running Veggie Oil

DRURY, Mo. - If the idea of free fuel appeals to you and you wish to explore the idea further, here are a few tips on how to do it from www.greasel.com:...

Life-Saving Winterization Tactics for Your Truck

TORONTO, Ont. - This is Canada, eh? We're supposed to be tough. A little thing like winter? Break out the skates. A wind chill? Bring it on. We can use it to chill our beer.

18 Wheels, 23 Discs: Good Nutrition: Premium Fuel for Your Engine

Well, here we are, it's October already and those cool fall days are upon us and that innate mechanism which causes many of us to "conserve" our calories is revving up.