APTA recognizes industry stars

MONCTON, N.B. -- Trucking industry workers in Atlantic Canada were honoured by the region's leading trucking association for outstanding contributions to the industry.

Maritime truckers throw down the gloves

DIEPPE, N.B. -- It's long been known that Maritimers are big-hearted folks not known for turning down a challenge.

Hard-driving heroes, truckstop women, and chicken guts

ORANGEVILLE, Ont. -- In the eyes of some unimaginative and downright lost souls, the people who drive your rigs are just truckers.

Inside baseball on ‘Truck Day’ haul

BOSTON, Mass. -- Never mind the fact that you're still ponying up for winter diesel and shoveling snow off your trailers. And who really cares what that diva rodent Wiarton Whatsisface had to say about our weather?

Trucking companies score 50 Best Managed awards

TORONTO -- Not at all surprisingly, trucking is very well represented once again on the prestigious list of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies.

Shipped Chips: Frito LCVs a success, hard work

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. -- Terry Naugler is looking forward to spring. That's when the traffic manager for Frito-Lay Canada can put his LCVs back on the road and continue his company's participation in Ontario's pilot project.

Playing the SMS card could help good truckers in court

SEATTLE, Wash. -- A transportation lawyer says a good safety record, as proven by the new Safety Measurement System (SMS) requirements of CSA 2010, could be useful in court to any trucking firm involved in a highway accident.

Innovative trucker Bill Buckham passes away

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. -- He was a family man, an adventurer and a well-respected friend of the Ontario trucking industry. And last Wednesday, he passed away at just 52, after a yearlong battle with cancer.

TransX named top Walmart trucker; consolidates Big Horn

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Walmart Canada has rewarded TransX for its 99.6 percent on-time record, delivering 89,000 shipments.

Safety program nets Erb prestigious TCA honor

LAS VEGAS -- Erb International of New Hamburg, Ont. has won another big international prize. This time, the 50-year-old family-owned fleet was the grand prize winner of the U.S.-based Truckload Carriers Association's 34th National Fleet Safety Awards.

Trucker Bob nabs civic honors

CORNWALL, Ont. -- Bob Gauthier's innovative Seaway Express has been named Business of The Year by the city of Cornwall.

Women can help shore up trucking’s HR holes

WINNIPEG -- From drivers to fleet owners and company chairs, more women than ever before are advancing up the career ladder in Canadian trucking.

Trucking to Office: Driver goes for governor

JUNEAU, Alaska -- He can't see Russia from his house, we're not sure how good of a shot he is, and he sure ain't a former beauty queen, but trucker 'Singin Sam' Little is hoping he still has what it takes to take Sarah Palin's former seat as Alaska's next governor.

Guilbault family story ‘all over the Internet’

BOUCHERVILLE -- Quick. Get into the time machine. Whip back to 1929. The onset of the Great Depression. Meet Paul Guilbault, a young man starting a trucking service between Grondines, Que., and Québec City.

Arrow puts struggling driver back on the road

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Trucker Robert Snyder is coming out of this recession intact. And he has his daughter to thank for it.