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Freedom Convoy 2.0 appears to be a bust.
Canada Unity, one of the anti-government protest groups behind the protests that headlined much of last year, has called off its plans to restage the event in Winnipeg in February.
Trucks carried mark…
It was an eventful year, to say the least. Right out of the gate the Canadian trucking industry found itself in the international spotlight as trucks noisily rumbled their way from the West Coast to Ottawa where they parked for an extended, and unwelco…
Bandag set new records in 2022, with a 9% increase in North American retread tire sales totaling more than 7 million retreads.
The company also invested US$60 million into its Abilene, Texas retread plant, which it says will boost capacity by 16%. It a…
Lion Electric announced it has produced its first proprietary lithium-ion battery pack at its Mirabel, Que., battery plant.
The first battery pack is to be certified in the first quarter of 2023, when production will ramp up. The first batteries produc…
Trucking capacity utilization loosened in October to levels not seen since May 2020, improving conditions for shippers.
The FTR Shippers Conditions Index improved in October to a barely negative -0.3 reading, from -3.1 in September. This despite rising…
Lazer Logistics has acquired the yard management assets of Preferred Cartage Trucking Services in Greeley, Col.
Lazer provides outsourced yard management services across North America, and includes Toronto-based operations.
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New Brunswick and Ontario are home to six of the top nine spots where truckers park on the side of the road to rest, according to video telematics company Lytx, which ran a report for TruckNews.com.
The company says a listing of the most frequently par…
Mullen Group has sold its Canadian Hydrovac business and a Surrey, B.C., terminal as it focuses on its LTL, warehousing and intermodal business growth.
“Earlier this year we identified a few assets that we viewed as non-core to our long-term strategy,”…
New trailer orders continued to soar in November, with 39,000 units ordered according to preliminary data from ACT Research.
The strong total even took the industry forecaster by surprise.
“We expected net orders to slow in November, after October’s n…
After a three-year hiatus, the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) returned with its Fleet Fuel Study in 2021, and found that fleet-wide average fuel economy from participating fleets held steady at 7.24 mpg (32.49 litres/100 km).
How…