ICBC cancels facility’s vehicle inspection licence

VICTORIA, B.C. - The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia has pulled the vehicle inspection licence from Wes-Can Trailer and Truck Repair in Surrey, B.C. after trucks certified by the company as ...

Ontario to get Great Dane plant

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Great Dane Trailers plans to build its first manufacturing plant in Canada, with a yet-to-be-unveiled operation in Ontario, Truck News has learned."We've been looking at several locati...

Trucks bettering cars in Ontario emission tests

TORONTO, Ont. - The vast majority of commercial vehicles are passing Ontario's Drive Clean emission control tests, and they're even bettering the records of tested cars.Emissions from more than 90,000...

Black boxes infringe on trucker rights

Never has talk on the CB been so alive with controversy, never has there been so much heated conversation around the coffee table in the all-night diner, and never has there been so much division betw...

The strength of a lightweight

You can be forgiven if you automatically assume that bigger and heavier equates to stronger and tougher. It's drilled into us from the time we're children, when we first see the comic strip with a bul...

AADCO, Volvo Toronto to salvage trucks

TORONTO, Ont. - It appears there is life after death for heavy trucks. A new strategic alliance between AADCO Industries and Volvo Trucks of Toronto will see old or written-off trucks pulled apart, an...

Huck models Japan

DON MILLS, Ont. - At a time when talk of Japanese management has fallen into relative obscurity, Huck International - the makers of the Huck bolts that hold truck equipment together - sees the approac...

Hotline hours are extended

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has increased the hours of its toll-free driver hotline (1-888-DOT-SAFT) for reporting carrier safety violations. The hotline will be...

MTO auditors play a key role in truck safety

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation's Mike McKay recently asked me if I'd be interested in speaking to a group of newly hired auditors, and I jumped at the chance.Mike now shares the responsibility...

Rail rates go up

SASKATOON, Sask. - The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has handed down a ruling that allows for an increase in rail freight rates to a maximum of 4.5 per cent. The ruling impacts Canadian Wheat B...

Kenworth offers instant savings

KIRKLAND, Wash. - For the fourth year in a row, Kenworth is offering a booklet containing discount coupon offers for trucking professionals. The Advantages Savings Book will be available June 1 and co...

Con-Way Canada Express expands

TORONTO, Ont. - Another big boy just got bigger in the Canadian LTL market.Con-Way Canada Express has announced that it is expanding its operations into five more provinces as part of the company's ov...

Volvo, Mack identities will remain after deal, says Gigou

HAGERSTOWN, Pa. - Mack trucks will continue to have a separate identity once Renault VI's truck business is sold to Volvo AB, Mack Trucks president and CEO Michel Gigou says. In fact, there are still ...

People (June 01, 2000)

McCoy Bros. will lose the last of its founding family members at the end of next month with the retirement of president and chief operating officer Terry McCoy. McCoy has worked since 1966 with the bu...

Newfoundland to the Max

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. - The HSC Max Mols, the fast ferry chartered by Marine Atlantic to meet the demands of this summer's peak season, has arrived in St. John's, Nfld. to prepare for service on the Port ...