Women can help shore up trucking’s HR holes

WINNIPEG -- From drivers to fleet owners and company chairs, more women than ever before are advancing up the career ladder in Canadian trucking.

Trucking to Office: Driver goes for governor

JUNEAU, Alaska -- He can't see Russia from his house, we're not sure how good of a shot he is, and he sure ain't a former beauty queen, but trucker 'Singin Sam' Little is hoping he still has what it takes to take Sarah Palin's former seat as Alaska's next governor.

Guilbault family story ‘all over the Internet’

BOUCHERVILLE -- Quick. Get into the time machine. Whip back to 1929. The onset of the Great Depression. Meet Paul Guilbault, a young man starting a trucking service between Grondines, Que., and Québec City.

Arrow puts struggling driver back on the road

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Trucker Robert Snyder is coming out of this recession intact. And he has his daughter to thank for it.

Ice-road mushers face tough sledding

NOME, Alaska -- The 2010 edition of the 1,150-mile Iditarod dog-sled race is history.

Family praises trucker for heroics

ARLINGTON, Va. -- A Werner Enterprises truck driver is being praised for saving the life of a 7-year-old girl.

TOP 100: Industry snapshot shows fleets getting fit

TORONTO -- We were putting the finishing touches on this year's Top 100 For-Hire carrier charts when into our inbox dropped another chart -- this one from Nulogx Transportation Management. They're the rate-tracking people who produce the monthly Canadian General Freight Index (CGFI).

Your kids’ tuition bill? There’s an app for that

TORONTO -- Got a bright young'un or two headed to post-secondary school? Would you like a little something to help offset those ungainly education costs?

Trucker’s widow campaigns for more safe places to park

WASHINGTON -- Hope Rivenburg was pregnant with twins the night her truck-driver husband Jason was killed.

Hero Chuck Sibley does Navistar proud

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Engine maker Navistar prides itself on innovation and performance. But it wasn't just horsepower or torque that the folks around head office were boasting about last month,

Lousy roads contest rewards best of the worst

HOUSTON -- Got a tale to tell about a particularly nasty stretch of highway? And do you like NASCAR racing?

Goodbye recession, hello Truck World

TORONTO -- Wandering amidst more than 300 exhibitors spread around 300,000 square feet of exhibition space, visitors to last week's Truck World 2010 show seemed like a pretty happy bunch. There was an upbeat buzz in the air.

Mechanic Class: There’s an APPS for that

TORONTO -- APPS Transport driver and Ontario Road Knight Guy Broderick dusted off his urban-driving skills this week delivering a load of 16 V6 and V8 engines to Toronto's Central Tech High School, part of a donation of some 128 motors from General Motors

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.

Ice Road Truckers leaves viewers frozen in seats

ALASKA -- Never mind worrying about whether the Lost crew will ever make it off that island for good.