Blue collar workers migrating to Alberta’s patch: Stats Can

OTTAWA -- Freight carriers who assume that recent manufacturing plant closures in Canada may spark an exodus of potential truck drivers to their companies should get in line for skilled help.

Stats Can publishes truck driver shortage study

OTTAWA -- For the first time, truckers 55 years-old and over outnumbered those under 30 last year, confirming that the gap in the so-called driver shortage is going to get a whole lot wider in the next few years, says a new Statistics Canada study.

Private fleets pass on speed limiters: Say no proof speeding is a problem

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- The Private Motor Truck Council of Canada is the latest transport group to weigh in on the controversial speed limiter proposal currently before the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Its answer? No thanks.

Michigan on verge of increasing truck speed limit

LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will review a bill that allows commercial trucks to go 5 mph faster on state highways.

Clarke Transport union workers locked out

CONCORD, Ont. -- Halifax-based Clarke Inc. has locked out about 66 unionized dock workers from a Concord, Ont. trucking terminal after the employees voted to reject a final labour contract offered by the company.

BREAKING NEWS: American carriers launch their own speed limiter campaign

TAMPA, Fla. -- The American Trucking Associations, the U.S.'s largest trucking industry trade group, has followed the lead of their Canadian brethren and endorsed a move to limit the maximum speed of large trucks, at the time of manufacture, to no more than 68 mph.

Shades of Gray: Mandatory retirement law may be a double-edged reg

Ontario's mandatory retesting of older drivers could soon be stricken from the books

Where have all the workers gone? West, of course

OTTAWA -- 2005 was another banner year for the resource sector in attracting Canadian workers says a new Stats Canada report released today in the Canadian Economic Observer.

CTHRC program offers subsidies to employers that hire trucker grads

TORONTO -- The Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council (CTHRC) launched a Youth Employment Strategy (YES) program to help the trucking industry hire more young people.

OTA says 70 percent of Ontarians support speed limiters; Critic says group exploiting uninformed public

TORONTO -- The Ontario Trucking Association has released a poll to drum up support for its controversial speed limiter proposal that shows over 70 percent of Ontarians support the idea of capping speed on truckers' engines.

ATA clarifies speed limiter policy; Group not supporting mandated rule

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. -- American fleet owners aren't exactly following suit with their Canadian neighbours in giving the thumbs-up to a proposal that would legislate speed limiters on all trucks.

BREAKING NEWS: CTA member carriers united on speed limiters

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Trucking Alliance has won the support of the last remaining provincial trucking association to join the campaign for coast-to-coast speed limiter adoption in Canada.

CTA officially launches national limiter campaign; O-O group calls carriers hypocritical

OTTAWA -- Canada's provincial transportation ministries should get ready to deal with the most controversial issue to hit the trucking industry since deregulation.

New brake adjustment system to have RFID technology

TORONTO -- Brake problems on trucks and buses could be spotted and fixed sooner with a radio frequency identification (RFID) inspection system being developed by Zonar Systems and Canadian firm Spectra Inc.

Mad at Hat Rule: Sikh port truckers may challenge hardhat policy

MONTREAL - Canadian Sikh truck drivers are preparing to once again fight workplace safety rules requiring hardhats to be worn on the job -- this time in Quebec.