Health & Safety 5 steps to avoid slips, trips and falls in a fleet yard August 9, 2022 More than 42,000 Canadian workers are annually injured in falls, and 67% of those are linked to slips and trips on the same level. As troubling as those statistics from…
Transportation GFL Environmental safety specialist recounts truck-motorcycle crash May 5, 2022 Kevin Jennings, a GFL Environmental transportation safety specialist, still doesn’t know how he survived. The odds when a speeding motorcycle crashes into a truck are not generally in a rider’s…
Business Management Competition Bureau steps in on GFL’s acquisition of Terrapure December 2, 2021 Competition Bureau Canada (CBC) has stepped in to potentially derail trash hauler GFL Environmental’s acquisition of rival Terrapure Environmental. The Bureau claims that prior to the $927-million acquisition, which closed…
Health & Safety GFL’s Unifor-represented drivers considering strike vote July 14, 2021 GFL Environmental’s drivers in the Hamilton and Brantford areas are considering a strike vote, according to the Unifor Local 4268 union representing them. “When GFL customers needed curbside and commercial…
Transportation Four-year-old’s birthday wish comes true November 15, 2019 MORINVILLE, Alta. – The trucking industry has a new recruit waiting in the wings, though it will be another 14 years before he can get behind the wheel. Celebrating his…