Sponsored Equipment Prepare your drivers for ELDs October 26, 2020 To say 2020 has been a year of disruption in the trucking industry would be a gross understatement, particularly when it comes to drivers who have been on the front…
Sponsored Regulations 8 benefits of ELDs October 26, 2020 Electronic logging devices (ELDs) offer several driver and operational advantages, reducing Hours of Service (HoS) violations, making trip planning more efficient, and stopping renegade carriers from manipulating the paper log…
Sponsored Business Management Canada’s third-party certification to tackle ELD manipulation October 26, 2020 The most significant difference between Canada’s ELD mandate and its U.S. counterpart is the certification process. The U.S. requires suppliers to self-certify their devices, in an approach that has resulted…
Sponsored Business Management U.S. experience with ELDs offers lessons for Canada October 26, 2020 Canadian carriers hauling south of the border have gained valuable experience with electronic logging devices (ELDs) over the last couple of years. With that experience, they can expect little to…
Sponsored Business Management ELD data can improve efficiencies from the first to final mile October 25, 2020 Efficiency. It’s what every trucking company strives for whether they’re hauling across the continent or within city limits. Over the years, technology has helped increase efficiencies across the board, and…
Sponsored Business Management Drivers will adapt to ELDs October 25, 2020 When it comes to implementing an electronic logging device (ELD) solution, it’s time for carriers to have a little more confidence in their drivers’ ability to adapt to the new…
Ron Pridmore: 2019 Highway Star of the Year August 2, 2019 You could call Ron Pridmore a payload specialist. Over 40 years at the wheel of various moving trucks he has hauled household goods for the likes of prime ministers and…
Doug McGowan: 2018 Highway Star of the Year August 8, 2018 Doug McGowan, 2018 Highway Star of the Year Doug McGowan submitted no fewer than 101 resumes, but not one fleet had called him back. It just didn’t make any sense.
Joanne Millen-Mackenzie: 2016 Highway Star of the Year August 8, 2016 Joanne Millen-Mackenzie is a woman on a mission. Many missions. A shortcut through a single hall at the Truck World trade show has to be completed in a series of…
Guy Broderick: 2015 Highway Star of the Year August 2, 2015 What a Guy! The 2015 Highway Star of the Year is a three-million-safe-kilometer award-winning driver and former Ontario Road Knight who tirelessly advocates for the industry he’s loved since his teen years.
Michael T. (Motor) Rosenau: 2014 Highway Star of the Year August 2, 2014 “Hello, Central Casting? Send over One Big-Hearted Trucker” The 2014 Highway Star of the Year is Michael T. “Motor” Rosenau, an owner- operator “willing to give you the shirt off…
Brian Bertsch: 2013 Highway Star of the Year August 8, 2013 One of the first things you must know about 2013 Highway Star Award Winner Brian Bertsch is that his wife, Debbie, never knows when he’ll be home because “he always…
Stephen McGibbon: 2012 Highway Star of the Year August 8, 2012 One wintry afternoon in 2009, Dave Morrow, a co-owner of Oak-Bay-NB-based Milltown Trucking, went on a snowmobile trip from which he never returned. Morrow was an experienced sledder and native…
Reg Delahunt: 2011 Highway Star of the Year August 8, 2011 Reg Delahunt gets behind the wheel of a cherry red Lamborghini. It’s not his car. Trucking’s been good to him, but not that good. Moments later he’s behind the wheel…
Cliff Lammeren: 2010 Highway Star of the Year August 8, 2010 Growing up in a boy’s home in Montreal, alongside about 200 other young guys with equally unenviable childhoods, the two constants in Cliff Lammeren’s youth were fighting and alcohol. Trouble…
