Are You Ready for the Big Chair?

TORONTO - Would you like to play a bigger role with your company, maybe even leading it one day, and do you believe your ideas can help shape its future? If so, mark your calendar, because the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) has an event in less months to provide up-and-coming managers and executives an exclusive chance to hear from those who already answered those questions and made their way to the top of the trucking industry.

Annual Truck Beauty Contest Dates, Venue Set

JOPLIN, MO - Although it's still about nine months away, organizers have set the dates for one of the biggest truck beauty contests in North America and this time its not quite as far from Canada.

Dynamite Oilfield aims to outlast competitors in downturn

LLOYDMINSTER, Alta. – Dynamite Oilfield Services, based in Alberta, is operating in survival mode hoping to be rescued by higher oil and gas prices and an end to…

No turning back

TNT Tank & Trailer Repair isn’t hunkering down, it’s expanding its business despite stubbornly low oil prices

Saskatchewan’s doors are open to oil and gas producers

REGINA, Sask. – No one should be surprised that the current low price of petroleum products has cast a pall over the western Canadian economy, but even in the…

Alberta’s oilpatch facing a rough, wild ride

EDMONTON, Alta. – The fact that global oil prices are down should surprise no one who’s been paying attention to the news over the past year or…

Education over experience

Ever heard of Pete Seeger? You probably know a few of his songs. “This Land Is Your Land.” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” “We Shall Overcome.”…

MTA wins round in biodiesel battle

WINNIPEG, Man. – A government listens to the people? Since when? Since 2015, apparently, if you live in Manitoba and represent the province’s trucking industry. That’s…

Tandet Logistics: Embracing generation X/Y

They say there’s always one man behind the curtain. For the Tandet Group, that man is Scott Tilley and he’s not really behind the curtain of the company, but…

Not his first rodeo

After making a mid-week delivery in Brandon, Man., Mark headed west into Saskatchewan because his dispatcher Bud had told him his next load would be coming out of Regina…

Talking shop – and taxes

You love working on your truck but you’ve had it with dropping greasy tools onto a dirty driveway. Changing out filters and adjusting brakes would be a lot…

Apnea screening helps in the fatigue fight

The trucking industry spends plenty of time tracking the hours that drivers work. Every line recorded in a logbook is carefully scrutinized to ensure no one…

Get proactive about reactive arthritis

Similar to other forms of arthritis, reactive arthritis causes painful and inflamed joints. What makes reactive arthritis unique is that it is triggered by an infection in another…

Why you should sleep on it

How much sleep did you get last week? You probably don’t remember the last time you got seven to nine hours of sleep every night for a week.

Why small carriers are shrinking

Smaller trucking companies are shrinking. I’m not referring to our waistlines, despite Karen Bowen’s health advice, but rather the number of trucks we operate. I…