Transportation Are you ready to team up with your mate? April 1, 2000 1. Are you compatible?This is the key question. You have to enjoy spending time together - a lot of time. And you have to both like driving- a lot of driving.There's no use imagining that life on the ...
Transportation Through their looking glass March 1, 2000 Students of the photojournalism program at Loyalist College are taught to look at the world as a series of captive moments, as the images seen through the viewfinders of their cameras.The program was ...
Transportation Writer worried about training (March 01, 2000) March 1, 2000 Dear Editor,I am writing to express my concerns about truck training schools that do and don't provide quality training. I have recently obtained my AZ drivers' license through a truck driving school....
Transportation In for ‘ripair’, Part 2 March 1, 2000 "Are you Rick?" asked Mark."Rick's Rigs," said the man. "That's me." He was wearing a clean pair of jeans and a heavy, light blue sweater. The collar of the shirt under the sweater was crisp and clean...
Transportation Rolling arks March 1, 2000 Harvey Cheney isn't about to fall asleep at the wheel. Sentry would never let him.Cheney's Kenworth needs only to kiss the edge of a rumble strip to send the little Lhasa Apso into a barking frenzy. H...
Transportation Protests banned March 1, 2000 VANCOUVER, B.C. - Owner/operators working at the Port of Vancouver may have lost their ability to shut down or picket the facility, meaning a possible end to some of the labor strife that has plagued ...
Transportation Connecting the dot coms March 1, 2000 In the sexy world of E-commerce, you can sit in the glow of a home computer and order up a storm on the Internet. Or, if you run a business, you can sell your goods in markets you never dreamed you'd ...
Transportation Freightliner announces product plans March 1, 2000 PORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner is working on everything from a heavy-duty refuse truck, to a new entertainment/communication system and a Class 3/4 truck, president Jim Hebe has announced.In a briefing...
Transportation HOSED! March 1, 2000 MATTAWA, Ont. - Gyslain LeMelin is staring at a harsh economic reality.Fuel prices have taken such a dramatic jump in recent weeks that he actually loses money whenever he takes a load. And while his ...
Transportation Sunshine offered Christmas lights March 1, 2000 Dear Editor,The Sunshine Parade of Lights made its second annual presentation Dec. 18, 1999 at 7 p.m. in the city of Thunder Bay, Ont. This is a totally unique event and was started and dedicated to c...
Transportation Problem-plagued March 1, 2000 MONTREAL, Que. - Ninety-six percent of surveyed truckers are dissatisfied with their work, according to results found in a report on the Forum on General Trucking, obtained by Truck News. The report a...
Transportation Industry faces used truck crisis: Hebe March 1, 2000 PORTLAND, Ore. - A "virtual crisis" in North America's used truck market could shake the very foundation of the trucking industry, Freightliner president Jim Hebe warns. And to solve it, he's calling ...
Transportation Threat of user fee returns with proposed U.S. budget March 1, 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Plans for a new user fee to help update U.S. Customs' crash-prone computer system have once again found their way into a proposed U.S. federal budget.The idea - thought by the Canad...
Transportation Failing trucker questions Drive Clean testing March 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - Peter Gerjol is a trucker who has beaten the odds. But the owner/operator doesn't feel that lucky.While about 93 per cent of trucks are passing Ontario's Drive Clean emissions tests on...
Transportation Looking overhead February 1, 2000 It's a natural step to believe that you'll make more money by spending more time behind the wheel. That's true when you consider gross profits that come from payments based on a mileage or a percentag...