The core of the Truckload Carrier Association TPP’s newly released driver retention project plan is a focus on managerial discipline. It lays out a step-by-step process that is designed to layer a continuous focus on creating a driver-centric culture at any given trucking company, starting with the commitment by the senior management team to the…

Happy New Year! With the New Year, some of you will look for a new driving position. Here are some common errors or mistakes on application documents. This topic is very important for both the driver applicant and the safety office of the company receiving the documents. Why is it necessary or even critical? It…

CRA Reinforces Driver Inc Crackdown; Provides T4A Filing Guidance (Dec. 20, 2018) — Thank you for the opportunity to address some of the questions you had about T4A reporting. The Canadian Trucking Alliance’s Driver Inc. campaign is in full swing. It warns and educates drivers and carriers engaged in Driver Inc that Revenue Canada is…

The Over The Road December issue now online! Please Click on the thumbnail above to view!

I am happy to say that this is the 25th Anniversary edition of Over the Road magazine. My team and I are very proud of this accomplishment and we want to thank all our readers and our advertisers for their support over the past 25 years; we couldn’t have done it without you. People often…

Gary appeared on the first cover of Over the Road Magazine in December of 1993. He was then 50 years old and had been driving for 25 years. It is easy arithmetic but when I recently spoke to him his first words were: “I am 75 and still driving truck!” On the telephone, Gary is…

25 years ago, Canada’s annual truck show was held in the fall; I believe October. It was the same format and location as today’s Truck World which is held every other April. That was where I met Brian Harris. At that time, he was operations manager for then Frederick Transport. Two months later, I published…

Every day the admin people on the Women In Trucking Association Facebook Page scan the posts for negativity, profanity and just plain nastiness. Every day someone is banned from the site because they can’t seem to keep his or her comments civil. Why do you think they make these comments? Why can’t we show more…