The first all-electric refrigerated commercial Class 6 truck in Canada has been servicing customers in British Columbia for the past three weeks.
Four Canadian companies – Cold Star Solutions from Victoria, Volta Air from Burnaby in B.C., and Lion Elec…
Talk of a potential recession continues, and inflation has hit levels not seen since 1983, but the surge in cross-border freight continues.
Trucks moved US$35.6 billion of freight in both directions across the Canada-U.S. border this April, according t…
Canadian spot market load volumes fell 15% in May, according to Loadlink Technologies, reflecting a cooling from pandemic-induced highs.
For the second consecutive month, truck capacity increased with 1.68 trucks available for each load. But despite th…
An unannounced Brake Safety Day inspection blitz on April 27 grounded 1,290 commercial vehicles for brake-related defects in Canada and the U.S.
In Canada, six participating jurisdictions conducted 382 inspections, recording an out-of-service rate of 1…
One of Canada’s largest unions is opposing the Port of Vancouver’s plan to ban trucks more than 12 years old from serving the facilities.
“The program is a farce. Not only does it ignore the financial concerns of truck drivers, it exempts more than 98%…
Jason Larocque, a driver with Kleysen Group, has been named the 2022 Manitoba Trucking Association-Volvo Trucks Canada Driver of the Year.
He has more than 2 million safe miles under his belt, and was described by his employer as “the type of driver ev…
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Steve Lawn has a message for Parkland Corporation truck drivers as the fleet adopts its first video-based telematics systems. The cameras are not collecting data for a vengeful “Big Brother”, the fleet manager stresses. The goal is to capture insights …
Federal Labor Minister Seamus O’Regan took to the floor of the House of Commons this week, criticizing the Driver Inc. business model that sees truck drivers misclassified as independent contractors.
“The Driver Inc. model deprives workers of their bas…
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) has identified several industry challenges that it will submit to a new National Supply Chain Task Force, drawing on insights from a Wednesday meeting that included transportation leaders and staff from CTA and the …