Transportation Built like a Mack Truck January 1, 2000 ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Few truck makers have enjoyed Mack Trucks' impact on popular culture. After all, "built like a Mack Truck" is synonymous for all things tough - inside or outside the trucking industry...
Transportation Future crossings should be faster, easier January 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - New technologies and approaches to border crossings currently being considered by governments on both sides of the 49th promise to make transborder hauls a much less time-consuming and...
Transportation Confederation tolls to rise January 1, 2000 CHARLOTTETOWN, Ont. - As of Jan. 1, straight trucks will pay an additional 75 cents to cross the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island, while each trailer in a combination will cost an extra do...
Transportation Two truckers hurt by thrown wheel January 1, 2000 GANANOQUE, Ont. - Ontario Provincial Police are looking for the driver of the westbound truck that threw a wheel on Hwy. 401, initiating a head-on collision between two other rigs."Somebody would have...
Transportation People (January 01, 2000) January 1, 2000 Detroit Diesel Corp. will move Robert Allran into the role of executive vice-president of engineering and operations, effective January. Allran will assume the engineering responsibilities currently h...
Transportation Plan to be safe January 1, 2000 I don't know of any professional driver who actually goes to work planning to be unsafe. And most fleets try to do a good job in the arena of safety.According to a recent American Trucking Association...
Transportation Tests shedding light on ABS warning systems January 1, 2000 This winter's road testing of as many as 100 combination vehicles with the sometimes-controversial PLC4Trucks integrated circuit chip should help establish the reliability of the device, which is supp...
Transportation New road rules proposed for Quebec January 1, 2000 MONTREAL, Que. - Quebec is eyeing a series of road safety initiatives that could do everything from allowing right turns at red light to re-introducing photo radar.These are among five issues in the p...
Transportation New CVOR system is a cut above the past January 1, 2000 I have to hand it to the trucking industry and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation for developing the new and improved CVOR (Commercial Vehicle Operating Record) and its associated carrier abstract...
Transportation Meritor trims LVS January 1, 2000 TROY, Mich. - Meritor Automotive has sold its Light Vehicle Systems (LVS) sun visor operations (to Grupo Antolin-Vosges S.A.S. of France), marking the second chunk of the division to be sold off in as...
Transportation In harmony with the highway January 1, 2000 BRIGHTON, Ont. - Bettina Schwarze may carry the badge of an OPP constable, but truckers along the Hwy. 401 corridor in Eastern Ontario know her by her CB handle of Goldielocks.With a Class A licence i...
Transportation Enman named driver of the year January 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - Now in his 27th year as a truck driver, Barry Enman's 6.4 million accident-free miles have earned him the 1999 Ontario Trucking Association (OTA)/Volvo Trucks Canada Driver of the Year...
Transportation Manitoba now allowing longer Rocky Mountains January 1, 2000 WINNIPEG, Man. - Manitoba has followed the lead set by its fellow Prairie jurisdictions and has extended the maximum length for Rocky Mountain Doubles - long combination vehicles (LCVs) with a shorter...
Driver controls were nothing new January 1, 2000 Dear Editor,Re: Blair Gough's Industry Insight, "Deregulation didn't mean unsafe trucks."I am writing in response to Blair Gough's comment in the July issue of Truck News.In his second-last paragraph,...
