How to position axles to stay legal: Driver’s Education

Cargo weight must be distributed evenly across all your axles. And sometimes you have to slide your axles or 5th wheel to redistribute the weight in the trailer. Here’s a…

Ontario aggregate haulers ending protest

MILTON, ON - Aggregate haulers who have been occupying Ontario Ministry of Transportation scales and the routes to Toronto-area gravel pits since Tuesday are ending their protest with the promise that a hard line on axle weights is -- at least temporarily -- coming to an end. "The strike is over now," Jagroop Singh Bangli, one of the key organizers of the strike action, told Today's Trucking.

Gravel haulers protest axle weight crackdown

MILTON, ON - A longstanding dispute around allowable axle weights has boiled to the surface, with dozens of aggregate haulers occupying three Ontario Ministry of Transportation scales in the Toronto area. The protesters began parking their equipment at 2 a.m. on September 20 in the facility adjacent to the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 near Trafalgar Road in Milton, Ontario. They returned on Wednesday and pledged to expand the protest at nearby quarries. Some had already been protesting around sites in Aberfoyle and Dundas, Ontario. "We just want a solution," said Jagroop Singh Bangli, a two-truck owner-operator who was involved in organizing the fight, as he divided his peers into teams for the next stage of the protest. "We don't want to take any more tickets."

Gravel haulers continue Ontario protest

MILTON, ON - Protesting gravel haulers continued their fight today against Ontario's hard line on axle weights, occupying three Toronto-area scales and focusing much of their attention at the Trafalgar facility on Highway 401, just west of the city.