Transportation Driving in red ink June 1, 2000 Jim saw his financial life spiraling out of control.While he had made a decent living in the trucking industry for 10 years, the owner/operator found himself staring at a rent bill that he couldn't pa...
Transportation O/O protest blows over June 1, 2000 KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A planned protest that was to be mounted by owner/operators in Western Canada seems to have blown over before it began. Owner/operators were going to block fuel pumps at several card-...
Transportation Truckers band together for change June 1, 2000 OTTAWA, Ont. - Seven long-haul driver-based organizations are joining forces in a move they hope will even out the balance between drivers and carriers.The group is so far known as The Standing Commit...
Transportation O/O issues being addressed: Minister June 1, 2000 Dear Editor,The following letter was sent to Bill Wellman of the National Truckers Association:Dear Mr. Wellman,I enjoyed the opportunity to meet with you and the members of the new executive of the N...
Transportation In for ‘Ripair’, Part 4 May 1, 2000 Although he has a load of wind machines bound for the Collingwood, Ont. set of the new Shannon Tweed movie, Snowflakes, Mark can't pick up his load because of an owner/operators strike at the port of ...
Transportation Plug in, turn on and master your power May 1, 2000 Last summer, Cummins Engine Co. held its first Signature Appreciation Days at company headquarters, essentially a picnic for the owners of the chrome-topped Signature Series engines.Like any other pic...
Transportation Parked in Havelock May 1, 2000 Dear Editor,I have had my truck parked since Oct. 14, 1999 because I am fed up. The company that I worked for out of Montreal closed its doors and started up the next day under a new name, and left me...
Transportation Art will be missed May 1, 2000 Dear Editor,The trucking industry lost a good friend on April 7 when Arthur Joosse passed away. Art was an inspiration to many of us who worked side by side with him on any number of committees for th...
Transportation Manitoba driver garners top trucker honors May 1, 2000 WINNIPEG, Man. - There must be something in the diesel they pour around Winnipeg. Perhaps it's in the coffee they pour in the truck stops. But whatever the reason, truckers from the region have now co...
Transportation Port plan put off May 1, 2000 VANCOUVER, B.C. - Container drivers who are awaiting a permanent licensing system for those who truck through the Port of Vancouver may have to wait until this fall to see a new system put in place, e...
Transportation Growing concerns May 1, 2000 WHITBY, Ont. - Although the passion that marked its early days seems to have subsided, the fledgling National Truckers Association (NTA) took a few more steps last month toward its dream of becoming a...
Transportation O/Os need to be better compensated May 1, 2000 We're facing a fundamental economic problem within our industry.Canada's shippers (our customers) have too much economic leverage, carriers are only too willing to cut rates and give away services, an...
Transportation Columnist, former student, remembers Art Joosse May 1, 2000 Maybe it's a product of age or the fact I was born and raised in Hamilton, Ont. and that I attended school there. But I went straight to the obituaries in the Hamilton Spectator that Friday night.It j...
Transportation Axa dumping commercial truck business May 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - Axa Canada has announced that it will be leave the commercial fleet trucking business, focusing its insurance products on owner/operators with nine trucks or less, or private carriers....
Transportation Operating revenues up for top carriers May 1, 2000 OTTAWA, Ont. - The country's 82 largest for-hire carriers (those earning $25 million or more annually) generated operating revenues of $1.6 billion during the last three months of 1999, a four per cen...
