WHAT’S HAPPENED TO CANADIAN TRUCKERS’ EQUITY?

Avatar photo

Volume 1 Number 1

Ever wonder what bits of gold don’t make it into a Today’s Trucking
feature story? Space constraints limit what we can convey in print.
That’s not the case here. These feature-length audio interviews take you
beyond the printed page. Join Today’s Trucking contributor and
columnist, Jim Park, for frank and informative audio interviews with
people behind the headlines in Canada’s top trucking publication,
Today’s Trucking.

Listen to this audio feed while you go about your business, or download
the MP3 file to your desktop and listen at your leisure. Give us 10
minutes; we’ll give you all the gold.


Today’s Trucking Beyond Words –
January 23, 2008

WHAT’S HAPPENED TO CANADIAN TRUCKERS’ EQUITY?
There was a time when a small fleet or owner-operator could grow equity
in a trucking business by managing trade cycles to increase the value of
their assets. That theory went out the window when our dollar hit par
with the U.S. dollar. John Nelligan of Harper Ontario Truck Centres and
Jim Mickey of Coastal Pacific Express explain what happened, and what it
might mean for Canadian fleets.

Click here to listen. (9.5 MB, 10:19)

Avatar photo

Jim Park was a CDL driver and owner-operator from 1978 until 1998, when he began his second career as a trucking journalist. During that career transition, he hosted an overnight radio show on a Hamilton, Ontario radio station and later went on to anchor the trucking news in SiriusXM's Road Dog Trucking channel. Jim is a regular contributor to Today's Trucking and Trucknews.com, and produces Focus On and On the Spot test drive videos.


Have your say


This is a moderated forum. Comments will no longer be published unless they are accompanied by a first and last name and a verifiable email address. (Today's Trucking will not publish or share the email address.) Profane language and content deemed to be libelous, racist, or threatening in nature will not be published under any circumstances.

*