Private or not, logging roads need controls (September 01, 2001)

KAPUSKASING, Ont. - A coroner's inquest in this northeastern Ontario town has suggested establishing speed limits and roving police patrols for logging roads.In addition, the jury ruled truckers must ...

Abitibi won’t close Iroquois Falls paper machine (September 01, 2001)

IROQUOIS FALLS, Ont. - Last month, Abitibi-Consolidateds announced its Number One paper machine located here will remain open.Official word came after the company reached an agreement with the four un...

Four-wheelers flop safety test (September 01, 2001)

BRAMPTON, Ont. - A safety blitz aimed at the weekend warriors who routinely clog the highways out of the Greater Toronto Area on their way to cottage country, nailed 212 of 237 passenger cars inspecte...

ICBC trims down in preparation for competition (September 01, 2001)

VICTORIA, B.C. - The Insurance Corp. of B.C. (ICBC) will be cutting up to 800 jobs by the end of the year, in a move that some observers expect to be in preparation for competition.The government-run ...

Drivers of the Purple Rage – Part 4

The story so far...After picking up a load of plastic pool toys headed for Halifax, Mark is cut off by a young man driving a 10 year-old Buick LeSabre. When Mark blasts his horn at the man, he gets a ...

Love on the run

ALBERTON, P.E.I. - Drivers pull into truck stops for food, fuel and sleep, but sometimes they get a little more than they were counting on.Art White, now 51, stopped at the Happy Landing Truck Stop ba...

Report indicates Manitoba closer to introducing photo radar

WINNIPEG, Man. - A confidential report obtained by local media indicates that Manitoba may be one step closer to implementing photo radar.The 100-page document - prepared by a panel of government, pol...

Vehicle levy still a possibility

VANCOUVER, B.C. - TransLink released a report recently that blasted the former B.C. NDP government for killing the vehicle levy it had promised to legislate.Now the transit agency is appealing to the ...

Roadblocks could hinder next year’s G-8

KANANASKIS, Alta. - Truckers may want to plan ahead - way ahead - and avoid driving through Calgary from June 26 to 28, of next year.That's because activists are already planning to block all major ro...

Shedding some light on the future

WATERLOO, Ont. - Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) aren't just for show trucks anymore.New technology is driving prices down and Truck-Lite mid-west regional manager, Andrew Willms, says more and more truc...

Improving safety on a WIM

SASKATOON, Sask. - In Colorado, a young truck driver faces his first drive through the Rockies, and before beginning down the long mountain grade ahead of him, a road sign lights up and tells him that...

The soldier, the preacher and the public reacher

BRAMPTON, Ont. - Jacob Froese says trucking saved his life - literally.Four and a half years ago he was a practicing Mennonite minister with a busy parish in Edmonton, Alta. But beneath a rock-like ex...

Natives plan to clog B.C. roads

VICTORIA, B.C. - West Coast native leaders are threatening to derail the provincial transportation network if the government doesn't put the brakes on a land-claims referendum that could come as early...

Carriers brace for longer-term impact of terrorist attacks At press time the transportation industry was still in a wait and see position with regard to the direction and impact of heightened border security following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the US. Also being called into question was the industry’s ability to service customers with JIT delivery if such heightened security were to continue.

"Right now, in the intermediate period, the JIT cycle has been impacted. But we've got to understand that JIT can be any length of time, as long as it arrives just in time," said George Kuhn, executiv...

OTA calls for increase to minimum liability insurance Transport Canada announces more funding for the NSC

The Ontario Trucking Association is making a series of recommendations to the provincial government to update the Truck Transportation Act (TTA). The TTA came into force in 1989, ushering in the econo...