Transportation The Lac-Megantic Effect March 1, 2014 When an unmanned 74-car freight train carrying crude oil careened into the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic July 6, burning much of it to the ground and killing 47 people, it was easy to dismiss it as a rail issue. After all, though transport...
Transportation Whose loss is it anyway? February 1, 2013 Imagine a carrier who dispatches a tractor to pick up a trailer at a shipper’s loading dock. The trailer is sealed for security reasons and the driver merely hooks on and proceeds towards the delivery point. Happens thousands of times a...
Business Management Law needed to protect carriers from shipper indemnification clauses in freight contracts October 1, 2011 There has been a growing trend, particularly amongst large shippers, to include an indemnification clause in their freight contracts with carriers.