Truck drivers roll, even as other Canadians face new Covid-19 restrictions

HALIFAX, N.S. — Truck wheels continue to roll while non-essential travelers across several Canadian regions face tighter restrictions in the fight against Covid-19.  But that hardly means truck drivers have…

Coronavirus Chronicles: Richard Joules, Eassons Transportation

Families at home are separated from truck-driving loved ones at the best of times. Rion Joules, who has been a trucker’s wife for over 16 years, doesn’t feel her husband…

Truck drivers face added sense of isolation during Covid-19

EDWARDSVILLE, N.S. — John Mulrooney, also known as Papa John, has been on the road in all kinds of weather and has seen it all in his 40 years behind…

Eassons adjusting to changing freight, Covid-19 practices

KENTVILLE, N.S. – The nature of the loads has been changing. The volumes, too. “Volume was up and all lanes [seemed] to be steady last week. Things have softened…

A growing family

Despite its beginnings as a family business, Eassons management says it has grown beyond that, thanks to its people

Eassons using performance management technology

BERWICK, N.S. -- Who wants to write company policies and procedures, only to have them ignored? Who wants to do their job well, yet see low performers get the same pay? A tool called performance management solves these problems. Its premise is...

Eassons Transport founder laid to rest

BERWICK, N.S. -- William Parker Easson, one of the founding partners of Eassons Transport, will be laid to res...