Snow angels

SARNIA, Ont. - A major winter snowstorm hammered southwestern Ontario in mid-December, stranding more than 300 motorists overnight in frigid, blustery conditions and leaving one truck driver dead.

Trucking: An industry that solves its own problems

When people - outsiders, of course - ask me how it is I don't get bored covering the trucking industry, I'm never short for an answer. Of course, there's the usual rant about how the industry is constantly evolving, my fascination with the...

Beware the Wreckhouse winds

CAPE RAY, Nfld. - Electronic warning signs, installed at both ends of a notorious stretch of Newfoundland highway in the Wreckhouse region of the province, seem to have done little to prevent truck rollovers.

Relics of trucking industry’s past may soon be homeless

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - If you've built it, there's a historical society that just might want to come - especially if you make them an offer they can't refuse.

Recessions can’t stop all the good news

'While everyone in the trucking community is concentrating on keeping things afloat these days, here's a vote for taking time to acknowledge excellence.'

Box on wheels, no more

TORONTO, Ont. - The trailer business, says Conny Weyers, president of Trailers Canada, hasn't been a whole lot of fun over the past few years.

Twinkle, twinkle little Star

DENVER, Col. - The demise of Sterling and GM's withdrawal from the medium-duty truck market created a gaping void in the Class 4/5 arena; a void that Navistar International hopes to fill with its new International TerraStar.

In Europe, children dream of driving the classic-styled conventional

Many years ago as a small boy, I used to push my toy trucks around the floor, dreaming of the day I would become a trucker myself. Model trucks were my only toys, I wasn't interested in anything else and there was one truck in particular that...

Training for a marriage

Truck driver training schools are a lot like a marriage. Sometimes you get a great one, sometimes not.

An eye for an eye: Part 1

Mark was driving westward through Saskatchewan when his cell phone rang. He checked the number on his phone, saw that it was Bud calling and put the call onto his hands-free device.

Entering the smart phone era

I've never been one to rush into anything. Traditionally, I won't make any major buying decision without researching the ying-yang out of it.

COMPETITION WATCH: ITS acquires CSI Logistics

BELLEVILLE, Ont. -- International Truckload Services (ITS) has announced it has acquired Cornwall-based CSI Logistics.

Halifax bridge tolls set to rise

DARTMOUTH, N.S. -- Crossing the Halifax Harbour will soon cost truckers more, after Halifax Harbour Bridges' was granted permission to raise tolls.

TransCore index shows spot market freight volumes were strong in 2010

TORONTO, Ont. -- TransCore's Canadian Freight Index ended 2010 with a bang, posting the highest ever load volumes for the month of December.

More improvements made to Queenston-Lewiston crossing

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. -- Work has been finished on a new central plaza building that will house Canada Border Services Agency and Canadian Food Inspection Agency functions at the Queenston-Lewiston International Bridge, expediting the flow of...