Loblaw begins driverless grocery deliveries

Loblaw Companies is working with autonomous delivery tech company Gatik to deliver grocery orders without a driver. A fleet of multi-temperature autonomous box trucks is delivering select online grocery orders…

Loblaw takes to the road with zero emissions

Loblaw was quick to raise its hand to order some of North America’s first Freightliner eCascadias. Now Canada’s largest grocer has officially tested one of the first units on the…

Loblaw bringing Freightliner eCascadia to Canada

TORONTO, Ont. – Loblaw is scheduled to secure Canada’s first Freightliner eCascadia trucks, placing an order for five of the electric vehicles that will begin production in the first quarter…

President’s Choice: Loblaw prepares for a future with electric vehicles

TORONTO, Ont. — Canada’s largest grocer is shopping for something that doesn’t exist. Not yet. But that has hardly slowed Loblaw in a bid to electrify its private fleet within…

‘Reefer’ trucks to deliver groceries to GO stations in new program

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Refrigerated (“reefer”) trucks will soon be camped out at five Toronto-area GO Train stations to bring groceries to customers. Metrolinx, the Ontario agency responsible for providing transit…

Top Loblaw drivers crowned

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — Loblaw drivers working out of the Maple Grove Distribution Centre put their skills on display June 7, during the company’s third annual truck driving championship. The championships…

Tough talk on fuel efficiency

MT: I think the only thing that we can accurately predict about fuel pricing is that it is going to be volatile. When you look ahead with your own supply chain budgets, how do you factor that in? Where do you expect fuel pricing to go, and how...

here come the electrics

Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz are credited with introducing the first internal combustion vehicle in 1886. But Canadians were initially more interested in battery-powered trucks. In 1898, mercantile visionary Robert Simpson of Toronto, bought...