Tweaking your body machine

BRAMPTON, Ont. - So this year, your New Year's resolutions consisted of getting into shape and shedding a couple of pounds?Still waiting for Santa to drop off a miracle cure? Well, considering it's no...

Help your body grease itself from the inside-out

When the joints start to stiffen up on your truck, you grab your grease gun, find the grease nipple, and inject some grease. Problem solved. Unfortunately, our stiff joints don't come with grease nipp...

A PM cycle for your bod

The Fitness Connection's Jason Wiebe insists you don't need to hit the gym to work out.The following five tips are for truck drivers who want to maintain a proper exercise program despite the fact the...

In for the long haul

With the downward pressure on rates likely to remain a long-term reality, fleet managers must remain vigilant for improved ways to reduce their own operating costs. One of the most significant areas w...

Designing for a Growing Need

InternationalInternational Truck and Engine Corporation's 8500 regional haul tractor is equipped with International's new HT 530 engine. Its release follows the February 2001 launch of the high perfor...

Kenworth offers Hendrickson vocational steerable lift axles

Kenworth Truck Company is now offering the new Hendrickson HLUS-2 ParaLift Ultra steerable lift axles for vocational applications.Single HLUS-2 ParaLift Ultra steerable lift axles are now available on...

Justice denied

This month we reach into the mailbag for some head-scratching issues regarding the CVOR.Q: My driver was involved in an accident in Toronto. What really bugs me is the accident report, and the way the...

Here to Stay

MT: There has been speculation in the industry about the Chapter 11 filing of Trailmobile Trailer in the U.S. and its impact on the Canadian operation. Here's your opportunity to set the record straig...

A chilling reality

One thing that has always struck me about this industry over the decade or so that I've been part of it, is that "advice" -- whether coming from the manufacturers, the carriers or us, the media -- is ...

Spin headaches into pure gold

Thinking back to my high school days, I remember sitting around a camp fire one night with a buddy chatting about a great product idea we could sell to golfers, who as you know buy anything and everyt...

Special Report: Looming Crisis

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Attracting and retaining drivers is proving to be a double-edged sword for fleets.Driver turnover is increasing, and new drivers aren't exactly breaking down cab doors to fill seats....

Stock haulers taking shape

RED DEER, Alta. - The first North America-wide livestock transportation association is starting to come together, under the guidance of humane transportation expert Tim O'Byrne.The Livestock Transport...

Rage lands trucker in jail (February 01, 2002)

WINDSOR, Ont. - A Quebec transport driver who pushed a pickup truck into a busy intersection has been sentenced to four months in jail.Real Vaillancourt, 51, also had his licence suspended for 12 mont...

Replacing B.C.’s failing ferries

VICTORIA, B.C. - Transportation Minister, Judith Reid, suggests a mega-bridge be built to link B.C.'s Lower Mainland with Vancouver Island in order to alleviate ferry traffic.It's not a new idea, a fo...

Special Report: Excerpts from “Asleep at the Wheel” that pose ethical problems according to Bob Rupert:

The first line from an article "How Irving Fueled Highway Fatigue" on page A1, June 25 reads "Irving Oil's truckers were tired.""Truckers are so maligned by this," says Rupert. "This is a generaliza...