Groupe Robert opens new food distribution center

Groupe Robert’s automated food distribution center in Varennes is now ready to receive pallets of fresh and frozen foods from customers. “It took almost three years to the day to build…

Groupe Robert forced to reinstate truck driver fired for drinking and driving

A Quebec trucking company has been ordered to reinstate a driver who was fired after she drank at least nine beers before she lost control of her truck on a Pennsylvania highway. The driver’s…

Quebec fleets now losing business to ‘Driver Inc’

Fleets that misclassify employed truck drivers as independent contractors – a model often referred to as “Driver Inc.” – was once seen as a phenomenon mainly affecting Ontario. But the…

Can the owner-operator business model survive?

I know better than to predict the death of the owner-operator. The business model has been declared dead many times before, but that resilient bunch keeps proving the naysayers wrong.

Owner-operators at greatest risk as trucking demand slows, costs surge

A slowing economy and deteriorating freight conditions are already “baked in the cake,” according to Mullen Group senior executive officer Murray Mullen. But it’s small operators who’ll face the greatest…

Trucks for Change delivers for food banks

Trucks for Change (T4C) carrier partners will deliver nearly 1 million pounds of food to 46 food banks across Canada, helping The For Good Foundation deliver cases of shelf-stable products.

Groupe Robert distribution center taking shape

Groupe Robert’s future distribution center is taking shape on Highway 30 near Varennes, Que., establishing what the company says will become one of the most automated facilities of its kind…

Could natural gas be the answer to decarbonizing trucking?

With all the buzz surrounding battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell-electric trucks as the best ways to slash transport emissions, natural gas is once again emerging as a significant challenger to the clean…