Dutch navigation and mapping solutions firm TomTom has launched Trucker 6000 for the benefit of those earning their livelihood driving heavy vehicles. Offering customized routes with a user-specific vehicle type, size, weight, cargo and ...
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CEOs from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma added their voice over the weekend to a growing chorus calling for President Barack Obama to assign federal mediators to resolve contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association and ...
Tags: Pacific Maritime Association, International Longshore, Sporting Goods
Seeing where his new truck came from “was like a live episode of “How It’s Made!” This photogenic 2013 M2-106 Freightliner with its 16,000L tank was custom built for the Fort Erie, ON-based water hauler Dennis ...
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SOMEWHERE IN B.C-- What does an ex-con mob hit man do after he makes parole? Certainly he can’t and won’t be hired at any local school. It’s doubtful he would try, say, accounting. He’d have zero chance at the civil ...
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Thirty-three Lower Mainland drayage companies have filed a lawsuit against Port Metro Vancouver and the federal government over the recent dispute resolution with the port’s container truckers. The trucking companies claim that the ...
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Scania has the environmentally lowest-impact truck in the heavy tractor class, according to the respected German transport trade magazines VerkehrsRundschau and Trucker, which have given the Scania G 410 their Green Truck 2014 award. ...
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Port Metro Vancouver's customers are starting to feel the pinch of the ongoing strike by over 1,000 container truckers demanding better wages and shorter wait times at terminals. "The impact of truckers walking off the job is in the order ...
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Port Metro Vancouver is readying itself for labour unrest by upping its security measures. This weekend, members of Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers' Association (VCTA) and the United Truckers Association (UTA) both voted against a ...
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This Editorial appears in the Jan. 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Perhaps in addition to reviewing trucking companies’ financial performance, it would be worthwhile to measure such things as the ...
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The last few months of campaigning for the 18 Wheels of Christmas have proved to be a success for Rosenau Transport and the Calgary communities it endeavors to serve. The campaign's official launch was on October 1, 2013 and food and cash ...
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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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When you have a broken part, you need a replacement lickety split. You don’t want a counterfeit, and if the new part has to come from across the border, you sure wouldn’t want it held up at Customs because of tax problems. ...
The Toll Group has teamed with cycling advocacy group the Amy Gillett Foundation to help improve cyclist safety on Australian roads. The national partnership will initially see 14 co-branded trucks display road safety messages across the ...
The National Transport Commission (NTC) should work on simplifying the heavy vehicle national law to improve road safety, the chief executive of the Australian Trucking Association Stuart St Clair said. Mr St Clair was commenting on the ...
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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 ...