Vigillo Adds BASIC Measure Analyzer to Carrier Select
With the new way CSA data is being presented online by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Transportation data mining and analysis provider Vigillo has added a new BASIC Measure Analyzer as a new feature of Carrier Select, which gives more…
Conrad Transport: A container hauling original
Seeing a good thing coming, Conrad Transport got in on the ground floor of the container hauling business in 1970 – just one year after the Halifax International Container Terminal officially opened – and became the first common-user container terminal…
Low blood pressure a risk, too
Maintaining a healthy blood pressure level is an important component of good health. A blood pressure reading of 120/80 mm Hg is considered by most doctors to be ideal. Most people who have issues with blood pressure suffer from hypertension…
Singing wheels
August Fruehauf and the history of the Fruehauf Trailer Company
Dalton Undercover Part 3
THE STORY SO FAR Bud convinces Mark to go undercover at a trucking firm to see if he can help stop cargo thefts from the company. Mark is hired by Chenai Trucking and shows up to take on his first…
Driving down idle time
There are several options to choose from when it comes to picking an anti-idle system. But which one is right for you and your fleet?
ELD and ESC laws are good news
Transport Canada recently made two long-awaited announcements. On Feb. 15, it revealed to The Canadian Press that electronic logging devices (ELDs) and electronic stability control systems (ESCs) would become mandatory on heavy-duty vehicles in Canada. The PMTC has long been…
The Trudeau playbook
The federal Liberal election platform, A New Plan for a Strong Middle Class, sets out where the Trudeau government wants to go over the next four years. Like any successful lobby group, CTA will try – to the extent possible…
Pining for the simpler truck
I was having a conversation with a friend recently about spec’ing the perfect truck. We both bought our trucks from stock, so our involvement was nothing more than picking the best of the bunch. But next time around, if we…
Entry- level training is just the start
On Feb. 22, the Ontario government posted proposal number 16-MT0014 concerning Mandatory Entry-Level Training, or MELT, as we have come to know it. The summary of proposal contained the following statement: “The introduction of mandatory training, in addition to the…