Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category
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Seldom do I write about products, and even less do I write about specific companies. This month is different. This time I am writing about a company that I have dealt with for a couple of years, and this company has achieved what is just the start of a very successful future. I first visited…
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Have you ever thought about how some terms or phrases are either outdated or do not make any sense? For example, when was the last time you actually “dialed” a phone? Except for your great Aunt Edna, rotary dial phones are no longer in existence. We don’t dial anything; we just tap it or touch…
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All Systems Go for ELD Mandate: Teamsters Canada & Canadian Trucking Alliance (TORONTO, October 26, 2020) – Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced today that the first body responsible for the third-party certification of electronic logging devices (ELD) under Transport Canada’s mandate has been accredited and ready to begin testing ELDs to ensure their compliance with the…
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I never thought I could be friends with a piece of technology that is exceptionally nosey. I’m a pretty private person and the thought of sharing my physical data makes me uncomfortable. Sharing my sleeping patterns, my eating habits and how often my heart rate is elevated isn’t my idea of privacy. However, we recently…
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One of the things I love about this industry is that if you keep your eyes open, you can learn something new every day. I was flattered to be invited to sit in on a large company’s weekly retention meetings. I have worked with this company for a couple of years and I am delighted…
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COVID certainly has caused changes in both trucking and the whole world. I was thinking about the changes that are happening in trucking and transportation and I’ve been wondering how these changes affect Drivers and Owner Operators. I believe that autonomous vehicles will be one of the many changes coming at all of us! It…
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Are you sick and tired of everything COVID? Yeah, I know that I am. The first thing I want to say in this article is that you truck drivers are heroes! I mean that. As the USA spikes up in cases (at least at the time that I am writing this), thousands of truck drivers…
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Have you ever reached a point in your life when you had to pony up? A time when you had to muster up the courage to just go for it? If so, how did you respond when this happened? Any long-haul driver knows what I am referring to here. I am now considered an old-timer,…