It’s time to warm up to the idea of MELT

Mandatory Entry-Level Training (MELT) has been a hot topic ever since Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca announced that his province was planning to introduce minimum training standards…

Running Start

For MacKinnon Transport, the difference between training and education is a more professional, productive new hire

Clearing a path to success

Back in 1995 I went through a career crisis. I had been driving for 18 years and the truck I owned was three years old, paid for, and primed for a lucrative trade-in. Trouble was,

For the Taking

The holidays are a time for giving-and for stealing. Protect yourself against cargo theft.

DRIVER RETENTION: LOSING THEIR WAY

How can you stem the exodus of truck drivers? Clear a path--a career path--that's easy to follow.

Hard Lessons

With qualified truck drivers in short supply, it's tempting to turn a blind eye to drivers who can't read or write

Losing their way

How can you stem the exodus of truck drivers? Clear a path-a career path-that's easy to follow.

LEADERS: Talking safety with Ryder’s Pushpa Poisson

TORONTO, Ont. -- Ryder Canada was recently presented with an Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA) safety achievement award, for recording an injury rate in its Canadian warehouses that was 25% lower than the industry average for...

A Driver’s Guide to Selecting the Right Trucking Company to Work For

Much has been written in recent years about the looming driver shortage in North America. While there are still millions of people unemployed in Canada and the United States, only…

Insurance telematics could ‘flip the underwriting model on its head’

Insurance brokers and providers may soon be asking fleets for access to their telematics data, in an effort to provide more accurate insurance pricing and to help fleets better utilize that data.

Ready and able

Call it demographics, or call it reality. In Canada, the percentage of disabled workers in the overall population, which currently stands near 15%, is expected to rise over the next 20 years.

AMTA awards its finest

BANFF, Alta. - A half-dozen longtime industry veterans were honoured for their body of work at the Alberta Motor Transport Association's annual Management Conference in Banff over the May 1 weekend.Safety Person of the YearThe first award - the...

Funding fracas

CASTLEGAR, B.C. - A British Columbia truck driving school operator is calling on governments to create a new, higher end EI training funding program so potential truck drivers can learn the skills the...

B.C. pilot project aims to churn out better drivers

LANGLEY, B.C. - If a pilot project getting under way in British Columbia works out as hoped, it could help lead to a steady stream of qualified new drivers taking to the province's roads in the future...

Driver Satisfaction Survey: What’s on his mind?

When it comes to a problem that has lingered as long and proven as difficult to solve as has the professional driver shortage, it's best to start with the good news. The fact the national driver turno...