NB ups speed limit for safety

FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick has implemented a handful of measures to increase safety in construction zones, including increasing speed limits.

Safety at the CORe of new B.C. program

LANGLEY, B.C. -- While many safety developments aim to protect drivers while out on the road, a new safety program in B.C. is planning to focus on everything else.

VanPort truck regulations up for review

VANCOUVER -- It's been relatively smooth sailing at Vancouver's ports since the summer of 2005, and now the feds are looking to make sure it stays that way.

Marsh Canada launches online driver program

TORONTO, Ont. -- Marsh Canada has unveiled an online driver training system designed to help fleets improve overall loss ratios

Insurer posts accident data online

LONDON, Ont. -- If you knew in advance what sorts of conditions led to accidents, you'd avoid them, right? Of course you would.

MTO to again use GPS-Satellite records for audit enforcement

TORONTO -- Beginning the first of July, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) will begin phasing in the use of satellite records for enforcement purposes, the Ontario Trucking Association reports.

Worth the Drive to Action: Halton crackdown precursor to CVSA blitz

MILTON, Ont. -- Attention, all truckers who haul in and around the Ontario towns of Oakville, Burlington, Milton, Acton, Georgetown, Halton Hill and all points in between: The local cops are cracking down on unfit rigs.

New Alta trucking regs around the calendar corner

EDMONTON -- Canada Day will be a celebration of new trucking regulations in Alberta, bringing the province in line with other jurisdictions in North America.

Down and out in Ontario

OTTAWA -- Never mind the fact that Ontario has been tagged as a "have-not province." Its economy, however sluggish, is big enough that when it goes sour, it drags everybody down with it.

Shipper-trucker group presses for higher truck weights

WASHINGTON -- More than 100 American industry associations and individual companies have launched a coalition asking Congress to raise the truck weight limit in the U.S.

Speed limiter debate heats up stateside

WASHINGTON -- Following in the tire treads of its Canadian cousins, leaders of the American Trucking Associations headed to Washington to tout the potential benefits of a national speed limiter mandate.

NB official confirms speed limiter planning

FREDERICTON -- A spokesperson for New Brunswick's Department of Public Safety told CBC that the province is working on adopting a mandatory speed rule similar to laws in Ontario and Quebec.

BC truckers most crash prone; still safer than car drivers

VANCOUVER -- Truckers in B.C. were almost two times as likely to be involved in a fatal collision than drivers from Ontario or Quebec, according to a 166-study commissioned by the BC Trucking Safety Council -- a industry co-op between the BC Trucking Association and WorkSafeBC.

Shipper group touts pro-LCV research

POTOMAC, Md. -- Canadian-style long combination vehicles (LCVs) would benefit American truckers if they were adopted there, says the Agricultural Transportation Efficiency Coalition (AgTEC) ag-haul.org.

Driver distraction has big impact on truck crashes

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Driver distraction - from cell phone use to dispatching devices - was involved in 100 percent of commercial vehicles crashes, according to a recent study.