Wheels for Your Wagon: The choices in trailer axles

It's probably good that buyers are not usually directly involved in spec'ing trailer axles and suspensions. They make recommendations and requests, sure, but the heavy lifting usually goes on between the trailer manufacturer and supplier of axles and suspensions. Calculating ride height, ensuring frame clearance for all the bits that attach to the axle, and in some cases working out steering geometry is not for the technically challenged.

Laskowski to lead Canadian Trucking Alliance

VANCOUVER, BC - Stephen Laskowski will lead the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) as president and Chief Executive Officer when David Bradley retires from the positions on January 1, 2018. Laskowski, who was recently named Bradley's successor at the Ontario Trucking Association, is currently CTA's senior vice president and second in command. "It's a great honor to represent this industry and do it on a national basis," he told a room full of CTA board members in Vancouver, after being named to the role. "I love this industry. The CTA staff and I are very privileged to represent you. Moving forward, the staff and I are eager to work together as an alliance, with the provincial associations, and with each provincial board to represent carriers from coast to coast."

Who needs a driver?

ATA stresses importance of dialogue in advance of looming autonomous technology

Doing their part

Manitoba leads the way in Western Canada truck convoy fundraising efforts for Special Olympics

ATA raises concerns with US speed limiter proposal

ARLINGTON, Va. – The American Trucking Associations (ATA), a proponent of legislation requiring heavy trucks to be speed-limited, has told the US Department of Transportation it will not endorse the…

Laskowski to succeed Bradley as head of CTA in 2018

VANCOUVER, B.C.– Stephen Laskowski is set to succeed David Bradley, who is retiring at the end of 2017, as president and CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance beginning on January 1,…

Detroit teams up with AT&T, Microsoft to provide enhanced connectivity

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Detroit Diesel Corporation announced recently that it is collaborating with AT&T and Microsoft to deliver enhancements to its Detroit Connect suite of connected vehicle services. AT&T will…

Paccar recognizes Canadian dealers

RENTON, Wash. — Paccar announced the winners of its Parts Dealers awards at its 2016 Parts and Service Meeting in Orlando, Fla this week and among them were some Canadian Peterbilt…

Daimler CEO talks growing share, struggling market

LAS VEGAS, NV - It's a tough market for truck sales these days, but Daimler Trucks North America president and Chief Executive Officer Martin Daum still sees a "light at the end of the tunnel" - and is setting firm goals for the year to come. Where Canadian Class 8 sales were up 6% in 2014 and 3% in 2015, they are down 24% this year. Daum expects 360,000 Class 6-8 trucks to be sold in the NAFTA region this year, down dramatically from 424,000 units last year, and even the 384,000 in 2014.

Canadian dealers win PACCAR Parts awards

ORLANDO, FL - Canadian Peterbilt and Kenworth dealers were counted among those honored during the 2016 Parts and Service Meeting for PACCAR parts, service and executive managers in Orlando, Florida.

Mack, Volvo use Geotab to bring telematics to older trucks

LAS VEGAS, NV – Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America have signed Memorandums of Understanding with Geotab, opening the option of telematics for older vehicles that are not…

Feds approve longer tractor wheelbases

OTTAWA, ON – Canada’s transport ministers have approved plans to allow tractors with longer wheelbases. The amendments to the federal Memorandum of Understanding, which governs weights and dimensions, will see…

Eberspaecher opens new expanded Brighton facility

BRIGHTON, Mich. — Eberspaecher officially opened its expanded location in Brighton, Mich. this week. The facility more than tripled to 340,000 square-feet. It will produce Eberspaecher’s heavy-duty exhaust after-treatment systems…

Stoughton Trailers names new v.p. of purchasing

STOUGHTON, Wisc. — Stoughton Trailers today named a new vice-president of purchasing. John Payne John Payne, who was most recently vice-president of operations at the Lang Companies, will be…

New ATA president puts trucking’s enemies on notice

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – In his first American Trucking Associations (ATA) Management Conference & Exhibition speech as president and CEO of the organization, Chris Spear put the trucking industry’s enemies…