Transportation Risk takers January 1, 2000 MT: You will post revenues of about $80 million for 1999, an impressive 10-fold increase since abandoning your dry bulk hauling roots 12 years ago. Risk taking appears to be an important part of your ...
Transportation Wrapping it up January 1, 2000 OTTAWA, Ont. - It will be almost another year before North America has a common set of guidelines to tie down and secure loads on trailers, wrapping up a five-year process."November 2000 is the revise...
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 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 Province to restrict equipment for road tests January 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - Ontario will soon restrict the equipment that can be used in road tests, Ontario Transportation Minister David Turnbull has told the Ontario Trucking Association. And the province will...
Transportation Couriers join forces with OTA January 1, 2000 TORONTO, Ont. - The Canadian Courier Association will join forces with both the Ontario Trucking Association and Canadian Trucking Alliance on Jan. 1, with alliances that will involve the sharing of m...
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 Trailer promotes the gift of life January 1, 2000 KITCHENER, Ont. - Tony Hopp was counting the days until his wife Janice received the liver transplant she needed to save her life.All 982 days."I was really frustrated," the Kitchener, Ont. trucker ad...
Transportation Saskatchewan takes steps towards harmonization January 1, 2000 REGINA, Sask. - Saskatchewan's transportation policy division has introduced several changes to its weights and dimensions regulations, making a major move towards harmonization in the eyes of the ind...
Transportation Alberta to face steeper WCB rates January 1, 2000 EDMONTON, Alta. - After several annual reductions in a row, Alberta's trucking industry will face a hike in Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) rates in 2000."We've been indicating to the industry not t...
Transportation 50-year journey nears its end January 1, 2000 REXDALE, Ont. - Paul Clancy is about to take a break after 50 years at the wheel - 40 of which he has spent as an owner/operator.He's retiring from the world of High-Tech Express. And he's retiring fr...
Transportation The 80s were profitable, dangerous: Lacasse January 1, 2000 BOMANVILLE, Ont. - Yvan Lacasse realizes the trucking industry of the 1980s made a lot of people good money, but he thinks trading some of the profits for safety awareness has probably saved his life....
Transportation Comdata ready for Y2K January 1, 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Comdata says you need not worry about the Millennium Bug now that its fuel and cash advance system has been tested and found to be ready for the Year 2000."Comdata has taken every a...
Transportation Column, Curran collect kudos January 1, 2000 Dear Editor, I read your column in the December 1999 issue regarding the shortage of truckers in the trucking industry.I hope companies read your message because the industry has me totally frustrated...
Transportation MacKinnon, Southwestern to merge January 1, 2000 GUELPH, Ont. - Consider it a marriage that follows co-habitation - a seven-year hitch, if you will. MacKinnon Transport and Southwestern Express, which have shared a common facility since 1992, will o...
