Sask Special Olympics Convoy a rolling success

SASKATOON -- Joining several other Canadian provinces for the first time, Saskatchewan held its Special Olympics Truck Convoy recently. And now that the numbers are in, organizers can boast of its huge success.

TCA and CarriersEdge kick off Best Employer Survey

WASHINGTON, D.C. / MARKHAM, ON -- The Truckload Carriers Association, a truckload carrier interest group, and CarriersEdge, an industry leader in online driver improvement programs, today announced the launch of the first annual Best Fleets to Drive For survey.

National Trucking Week set to kick off

OTTAWA -- More than 400,000 Canadian trucking professionals will be saluted across the country next week during annual National Trucking Week events.

Bison prez recognized for industry contributions

WINNIPEG -- Don Streuber has accomplished quite a bit since taking the lead at Bison Transport and his Manitoba peers have acknowledged his work.

Michaelle Jean, meet Doug Smith

OTTAWA -- Just shy of a year after he was informed that he was going to be given Canada's highest civilian honor, The Manitoulin Group's founder Douglas Smith of Gore Bay, Ont., will officially enter the Order of Canada, this week, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

ATA sounds alarm on ‘hypermiling’

ARLINGTON, Va. -- More media are giving car drivers dangerous advice on how to save fuel dollars in these tough times, and the American Trucking Associations is trying to put a stop to it.

QuikX employee to get Bravery Medal

TORONTO -- QuikX sales employee Tony Tingskou is the newest addition to Governor General Michaelle Jean's list of heroes that will be presented with the Medal of Bravery.

Truck show curries favor with industry

BRAMPTON, Ont. -- In spite of high winds, unseasonably cold temperatures and an early evening rainstorm Saturday, organizers of the first ever Road Today Truck Show have deemed the event an unqualified success.

Reg barriers block greening of trucking industry: OTA

TORONTO -- Times may be tough, but that doesn't mean that truckers aren't seeing green of another shade.

Truck drivers not healthy? Throw the book at ’em

CHICAGO -- Just file this story under A, as in "about time somebody did this."

Truckers back anti-texting law; teaching four-wheelers about trucks

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Their agendas aren't always in line, but America's largest carrier group and its most influential owner-op organization both agree that texting while operating a truck should be illegal.

Trucking, good deeds, wrestling and all that Jazz

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- If you're in the States any time over the next few months and spot a 16-year-old blonde in sunglasses, sneakers, and headset trotting alongside the highway, you should know that what you're looking at is simply goodness in motion.

TransX named top Walmart trucker; consolidates Big Horn

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Walmart Canada has rewarded TransX for its 99.6 percent on-time record, delivering 89,000 shipments.

highwaySTAR of the Year spent life helping people, on and off road

TORONTO -- Growing up in a boy's home in Montreal, alongside about 200 other young guys with equally unenviable childhoods, the two constants in Cliff Lammeren's youth were fighting and alcohol.

Manitoba trucking assoc. taps new president

WINNIPEG -- Tom Payne, Jr, of Payne Transportation has been elected the new president of the Manitoba Trucking Association.