Heavy trucks not required to be plated or pay commercial vehicle registration fees, provincial taxes and certain tolls will no longer be exempt, the Ontario government stated in the Budget's Transportation Infrastructure Funding Plan. For ...
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Trucking is in the blood of many members of the Sikh community, according to Simran Kaur Chattha, chair of the Canadian Sikh Association (CSA). So it only follows that the CSA, an association that represents the Sikh community in the ...
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MARKHAM,Ont.—Crime Stoppers,the public awareness and crime tip reporting program,has a new focus this year:cargo theft. During a ceremony to celebrate January being International Crime Stoppers month,Crime Stoppers of York Region ...
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There’s now more support for Ontario Trucking Association’s call for mandatory entry-level training for truck drivers. The Toronto chapter of the Fleet Safety Council commented in a letter: “The lack of training ...
From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we're on the verge of electronic whiskers. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
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Arlington, Va. – Gary Shapiro, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) president and CEO, formally praised a recently U.S. Supreme Court decision to hear a lawsuit brought by the nation’s largest television broadcasters against ...
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Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) today announced that methylene chloride has been added to the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) list of higher hazard substances. Methylene chloride, ...
The Ontario Tories are pushing forward with their proposed biodiesel mandate and the Ontario Trucking Association is once again pushing back. The government wants to paint Ontario's trucks and buses a brighter shade of green with a ...
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The Faster Clearance Working Group (FCWG), a towing committee that was formed several years ago to address questionable practices during and after collision cleanups involving commercial vehicles will see a revival in 2014. The Ontario ...
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The transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel will recommend a series of potential measures to raise $2 billion annually, the amount needed to fund the Metrolinx Big Move. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that the advisory panel, ...
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The truck insurance industry and Ontario training schools have joined the call for mandatory entry-level driver training standards in Ontario. The Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) and insurers including Northbridge ...
Ontario carriers are not optimistic about rate and freight prospects in the first quarter of 2014, according to a report by the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA), which surveys trucking companies four times a year. Here are the ...
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Carriers participating in the Ontario Trucking Association's (OTA) fourth quarter survey of business conditions reported improved freight volumes in three of the four lane segments, which are monitored by the OTA. But with the peak ...
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Noel Perry of FTR Associates is holding up four fingers and one thumb. He had asked a room full of Ontario trucking executives, rhetorically, “how many dry van carriers or reefer carriers have the capability to bid - in a big way - on ...
Packs, COWs, WOWs and FOPs – these are all just another way to describe airline passengers. Don Bell, the retired co-founder of WestJet, spoke to conference attendees at the 2013 Ontario Trucking Association meeting and shed light ...
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