Transportation THE COST OF CHANGING JOBS May 1, 2000 It's well documented how driver churn hurts carriers. Now a Truckload Carriers Association study shows the effects of changing jobs on drivers. According to the U.S. study, a driver that changes jobs ...
Transportation People (May 01, 2000) May 1, 2000 Neil A. Schilke, general director of engineering and product planning for GM of Canada Ltd., has been named as president of the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) International for 2001. He was se...
Transportation College brings management program to Net May 1, 2000 SCARBOROUGH, Ont. - Centennial College has launched a new transportation management program that will be delivered exclusively on the Web through eCollege.com.The program has been designed specificall...
Transportation Meeting Driver Needs May 1, 2000 Drivers scored carriers best in making sure that equipment is safe, a statistic that indicates the message about the necessity to put safe iron on the road is sinking through. Unfortunately less than ...
Transportation GDP rise continues May 1, 2000 OTTAWA, Ont. - Gross domestic product (GDP) advanced 0.5 per cent in January, marking the 18th consecutive monthly increase for a booming Canadian economy enjoying its longest growth cycle since 1961,...
Transportation Happy Easter! May 1, 2000 MONTREAL, Que. - Quebec Trucking Association officials were a little embarrassed this month, as their 49th annual convention fell on Easter weekend. Such events are apparently planned so far in advanc...
Transportation Western Star officially opens new U.S. plant May 1, 2000 NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - Western Star Trucks officially opened its first U.S. plant in late March, launching a new life for the 285,000-square-foot facility that started production in November 1999."B...
Transportation A well-adjusted PLAN May 1, 2000 Nothing can tarnish a fleet's safety record faster than brake defects. Brake stroke and adjustment defects are the predominant problems uncovered during roadside inspections. Of the 19,775 truck brake...
Transportation PC*MILER 14 Web-enabled May 1, 2000 PRINCETON, N.J. - PC*Miler 14, the latest version of the routing software, has now merged with the information superhighway that is the Internet.Among the latest product lines are the Web-enabled PC*M...
Transportation Learning curves May 1, 2000 EDMONTON, Alta. - Mike Morigeau is probably the only trainer in Canada who's happy when his students roll a truck. It's specially equipped equipment, mind you, but he feels his company's Rollover Dyna...
Transportation Dead driver made several mistakes May 1, 2000 There's something to be learned from every accident scenario, and the following situation is no different.I was reviewing the death of an Ontario trucker who was killed after he was thrown from his tr...
Transportation Truck insurers will merge May 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - Truck insurers Hargraft Wood Fleming and Schofield Insurance Brokers have announced plans to merge into a firm to be known as Hargraft Schofield Inc., in a deal to close June 7.J. Ross...
Transportation It’s time to re-think transborder tax agreements May 1, 2000 The ideal of "free trade" in North America has clearly had a positive - albeit indirect - effect on the Canadian trucking industry. Truckers have seen an explosion of transborder freight. And in a rel...
Transportation Art will be missed May 1, 2000 Dear Editor,The trucking industry lost a good friend on April 7 when Arthur Joosse passed away. Art was an inspiration to many of us who worked side by side with him on any number of committees for th...
Transportation McCoy secures $1 million loan May 1, 2000 EDMONTON, Alta. - McCoy Bros. Inc. has snapped up a $1-million loan from its majority shareholder, the second such cash infusion from Foundation Equity Corp. in four months."We had a difficult year,''...
