Industry Issues: Workers compensation covenant with employers broken

Recently, the Ontario Worker Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) announced its new 2006 rates charged to employers. While the average rate has been increased by three per cent, trucking and related ra...

An O/O’s view on speed limiters

The following is an open letter to Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) president, David Bradley:...

Safety spec’s that save – money and lives

TORONTO, Ont. - With the media often portraying both trucks and trucking in an exaggerated, negative light, each new rollover or head-on collision seems to threaten the public's already tarnished view...

OTA president slams proposed WSIB hike

TORONTO, Ont. - With the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) Board of Directors poised to approve a rate hike at its board meeting tomorrow (July 20) OTA President David Bradley wrote to WSIB...

Private Links: Meeting the mandate – delivering value

The principle mandates of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada are to promote safety; to help member fleets improve productivity; to support and promote compliance with existing regulations, and...

Arrow celebrates 55th with plans to double trailer sales

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Arrow Truck Sales was launched in April 1950 on a small lot in Kansas City, Mo. by Jerry Nerman and the late Melvin Spitcaufsky....

Out go the lights

TORONTO, Ont. - Those trailer lights look good. But are they safe and compliant?...

Get paid

TORONTO, Ont. - For most carriers, it's not at all hard to imagine not getting paid by a load broker. Many claim it happens all the time. But getting a manufacturer to pay the bill when he's already p...

Viewpoint: One step forward, two steps back

Welcome to the recruitment dance for professional drivers. It's quite the popular number these days, although it's performed more out of desperation than celebration....

Industry Issues: Shipper responsibility and liability: It’s a matter of time

There are few things more maddening for the responsible carrier than to see rates being cut by and business going to carriers that do not make the necessary investment in safety and maintenance and pa...

Arrow intros new insurance program

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Arrow Truck Sales, Inc. (ATS) has teamed up with Lockton Risk Services to offer the new "Arrow Insurance Advantage" program....

Hitting the road; Seminar has received rave reviews

EDMONTON, Alta. - After receiving rave reviews for two transportation management seminars delivered last year, Roy Craigen and TRANSCOM are taking their show on the road....

New law makes fleet managers, dispatchers more accountable

OTTAWA, Ont. - Trucking company administrators may not know it yet, but a new corporate liability law, passed earlier this year, could severely punish a fleet manager and/or dispatcher for putting a d...

Industry Forecast

TORONTO, Ont. -Will a rising loonie continue to hinder Canadian truckers in 2005? How about the driver shortage? And what about border problems, hours of service, new rules about truck safety, and whatever else the new year has up its sleeves?

Industry forecast: Education, infrastructure keys to success

DIEPPE, N.B. - The trucking community in the northeast corner of North America is big enough to keep the regional economy rolling yet small enough to be one big family. And the goal for the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association (APTA) in 2005 wi...