MTO Releases Draft Training Standard for Class A Mandatory Entry-Level Training

(AYR, ON, May 20, 2016) – JBT Transport has donated transportation that will deliver urgently needed items to people displaced by the wildfires in Northern Alberta. JBT has partnered with Edmonton Emergency Relief Services Society (www.eerss.org) and Edmonton’s Food Bank (www.edmontonsfoodbank.com) in this effort. JBT is seeking the assistance of Waterloo Region businesses and the…

Recently the Women In Trucking Association (WIT) began a partnership with the nonprofit organization, Feeding America, to assist their efforts to fight hunger on a national level. The first step was in creating awareness for drivers and carriers to contact Feeding America if they have a load that has been rejected by the customer for…

Over The Road June Issue now online!

Although I usually enjoy what I am doing, now that I have slowed down, it always amazes me how things have a way of piling up and causing stress. At least it seems they have for me and I don’t know why. I tell folks I am semi retired and that it’s a blast. Although…

So, your trucking company is very good at moving freight. You have experience in dispatching drivers and your customer satisfaction is high. You do a great job at the things that you do every day! But today isn’t a usual day. For the first time in months, one of your trucks is involved in a…

Who is qualified to teach someone to drive a truck? Most companies or well meaning individuals assume that any good truck driver can easily teach a new driver. It is assumed that the better the driver; the better the instructor. Anyone who has been involved in trades training knows immediately that this is the biggest…

In the center of my second book “Choosing A Trucking Company” I compare the difference between carrier contracts charted in 1996 to those in 2012. 1996 represents the middle or height of the deregulation period which started in 1992 and finalized on January 1, 2000. Prior to the1990’s, getting your running rights and starting a…