Rick’s Way — Small Fleet Trucking on a Big Scale

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Jim Park’s Truck Talk
Volume 1 Number 5

Carriers running between 10 and 50 trucks make up nearly half of Canada’s for-hire trucking fleet, making the “small fleet” the largest demographic in industry. While the big 500- to 1000-truck operations handle most of the volume in the country, these small guys serve niche markets and the small shippers with unique service requirements.

Small fleets face all the same challenges as big fleets, but they often have to manage without the expertise the big fleets can afford. Rick Way owns and operates just such a fleet. Wayfreight Incorporated is a mixed 50-truck fleet slugging it out in the highly competitive southern-Ontario cross-border market.

We took our mics to Wayfreight’s Guelph, Ont. headquarters last year to find out how he does it.

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Jim Park was a CDL driver and owner-operator from 1978 until 1998, when he began his second career as a trucking journalist. During that career transition, he hosted an overnight radio show on a Hamilton, Ontario radio station and later went on to anchor the trucking news in SiriusXM's Road Dog Trucking channel. Jim is a regular contributor to Today's Trucking and Trucknews.com, and produces Focus On and On the Spot test drive videos.


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