Insurance: Look in the mirror for lower premiums

If you run trucks, then, you face two basic realities today with respect to insurance. First, no one's saying that rates will go down any time soon. Second, the days of lax underwr

CTA takes trucking message to top legislators

OTTAWA -- Parliament Hill got a big dose of trucking this week as the Canadian Trucking Alliance continued to drive home its message of the economic importance of trucking.

Paccar has best Q in its history

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Paccar, parent company of Kenworth and Peterbilt Trucks, has just complated its best quarter in the company's 100-year history.

Customer service? Who cares?

It still surprises me how much junk e-mail I get. I delete most of the messages in my in-box without ever reading them, but recently, for some reason, I opened up an untitled e-mai

Fortress Trucking moves into new castle

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - Ontario bulk liquid carrier Fortress Trucking has grown out of its current location in Cambridge, Ont. and will move its operations to a new state-of-the-art facility just down Hwy. 401 in Guelph.

Truckers still dodging bullets on Iraq

After years of unsuccessfully trying to squeeze himself into a number of tailored legacies, Prime Minister Jean Chretien may have just stumbled into something that actually fits.

Marine Atlantic needs to improve safety: Transportation board

NORTH SYDNEY, N.S. -- A new Transportation Safety Board report says that Crown corp. Marine Atlantic must step-up safety aboard its ferry service.

New Canadian HOS regime around the corner

OTTAWA - Canada's new hours-of-service rules have been formally approved and will be published in the Canada Gazette Part II in mid-November, Transport Minister Jean-C. Lapierre announced.

PIC, RIP: A requiem for enlightened transport policy

I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised in April when I heard that the Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) pulled the plug on its support for Partners In Compliance. The

Markel taps new president

TORONTO -- Markel Insurance Company of Canada has named Silvy Wright as the new president of the company.

Spanning the globe for a ‘world truck’

Five years ago, at the height of his presidency at Freightliner LLC, Jim Hebe pledged that the company would never produce a totally vertically integrated truck in North America-at

Special FX: 5 foreign exchange strategies

Don't feel bad. You weren't the only one caught off guard by the unprecedented drop of the U.S. greenback. I attended an out-of-town soiree recently and was raising a glass with a

CTA applauds HOS announcement

OTTAWA - After 12 years of meetings and negotiations with elected officials and bureaucrats, the Canadian Trucking Alliance will finally see a new hours-of-service regime in place in Canada.

Mugs? I’ve had my fill

I turn heads when I stroll into a meeting with coffee cup in hand. I like coffee, and I drink a lot of the stuff, so my mug is an ample one. Park's fuel tank, they call it. Stands

Clarke to sell remaining interest in ATS Andlauer

HALIFAX, -- Clarke Inc., one of Canada's largest for-hire carriers, announced it that has received a notice of exercise from Andlauer Management Group that requires Clarke to sell to AMG all of the shares that Clarke holds in ATS Andlauer Transportation Services Inc.