35 years’ experience, or one year’s experience 35 times?

by Jim Park

Where I live, commercial drivers are required to rewrite their CDL test every five years in order to renew the licence. I wrote my renewal test today and aced it.

• Transportation

Nebulous is the perfect word to describe the future price of crude

by Roger McKnight

The word nebulous comes in handy when someone has no answer to a question, or needs to defend their answer with the most mysterious answer of all, “Well that’s…

• Transportation

Fast track your career by creating your own personal coaching staff

by Dan Goodwill

One of the business trends over the past couple of decades has been the employment of personal coaches to help key leaders and executives enhance their skill sets. These coaches…

• Transportation

The importance of credit checks

by Charles Sheppard

There is very little in the trucking business that is more frustrating than invoicing a customer for a delivered load and then not getting paid in time, or worse, not…

• Transportation

The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step

by Lou Smyrlis

A few issues ago I wrote about breaking the stereotype of the obese and unhealthy trucker. I said it’s time to throw out the excuses – too many hours behind…

Trust Your Co-pilot: Bendix Wingman Fusion keeps virtual eyes on the road, foot upon the brakes

by John G Smith

First, a confession. I am a terrible passenger. My right foot is always pumping against the floor mat whenever I find myself riding shotgun. A knot forms in my stomach when someone takes anything other than my favorite route. When the Today's Trucking team carpooled to a trade show earlier this year, I was quick to reach for the keys before anyone else had the chance.

• Transportation

What’s happening in the world of crude oil during these lazy, hazy days of summer?

by Roger McKnight

I understand that we are in the hazy mid-August days of summer, but from the questions I’ve been fielding recently (that is not a “dog day” baseball inference, and I…

• Transportation

Attention fossil fuel fighters — they are not a luxury in the winter months, they’re a life and death necessity

by Roger McKnight

I’ve got this thing about time lately. Yes, the accidental pun master strikes again! “They,” whoever they are, say that, “Timing is everything.” For politicians, this is…

Fuel for the Fire: Tax change fails to recognize how diesel is used

by John G Smith

A house is not a home -- and in the eyes of the taxman it appears your sleeper is no longer a house on wheels. How else can we explain the end of Federal Excise Tax (FET) exemptions that have long been applied to the diesel that pumps through Auxiliary Power Units and bunk heaters? The heating oil used to warm a house is exempt. Add a few working axles underneath that house and it's a different story.

• Transportation

Look at your cards

by Ray Haight

It’s funny how age effects your decision making. I recall being advised when I was a young lad that to further invest in the trucking industry by applying for operating authorities…

• Transportation

You can build a fence but everything still permeates it

by Roger McKnight

I am sure you will all be pleased and interested to know that I have added another pastime to my morning ritual. In addition to retrieving two newspapers from…

• Business Management

Make way for the quiet leader who listens

by Lou Smyrlis

The leaders that shaped the trucking industry of today were forged in the cauldron of deregulation in the late 1980s. At a time of regulatory upheaval which saw once…

New CEO at Purolator–and he’s a trucker!

by Harry Rudolfs

I’m reluctant to write about Purolator since I waxed poetic about the board unceremoniously dumping Tom Schmitt back in 2012. At the time I was (and still am) wearing the…

• Transportation

No normal in the abnormal world of energy

by Roger McKnight

Unlike the rest of the normal world where there is winter, spring, summer, and fall, as I have mentioned previously, with stuttering regularity I might add (now there’s an oxymoron…

Everything Sells: The Ritchie Bros. auction begins

by John G Smith

EDMONTON, AB - Everything sells. It's a firm rule at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, and there is plenty on hand for the highest bidder. About 10,600 pieces of equipment will move through the company's sprawling Edmonton complex this week, easily setting a sales record and eclipsing last April's numbers by about 35%. Trucks dominated most of the sales on Tuesday, when close to 10,000 bidders had already registered for a piece of the action. Equipment such as cranes, rock catchers, and trailers will follow.