Transport and Logistics Network
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is drawing comparisons to none other than Big Brother as U.S. regulators study a proposal to require unique electronic identifiers on commercial vehicles.
“To ask for more surveillance and cont…
Four days before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act to clear last winter’s “Freedom Convoy” blockades, a key White House official made it clear the U.S. wanted Canada to get the situation under control, a public inquiry heard Thursday.
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The federal government believed Freedom Convoy protests could expand in the days before it invoked the Emergencies Act, establishing tools to support a crackdown.
“There was a lot of concern about ongoing escalation and inspiration that these blockades…
Transport Canada is looking to establish a series of penalties under federal Hours of Service rules – with the most severe infractions generating fines as high as $2,000 for motor carriers and $1,000 for drivers.
Several of the penalties involve rules …
RCMP appeared caught off guard by protesters blockading a Canada-U.S. border crossing last winter despite Alberta’s government being warned ahead of time, the mayor of Coutts, Alta., testified at a public inquiry Wednesday.
Mayor Jim Willett said he sp…
Steve Lawn has a message for Parkland Corporation truck drivers as the fleet adopts its first video-based telematics systems. The cameras are not collecting data for a vengeful “Big Brother”, the fleet manager stresses. The goal is to capture insights …
Federal Labor Minister Seamus O’Regan took to the floor of the House of Commons this week, criticizing the Driver Inc. business model that sees truck drivers misclassified as independent contractors.
“The Driver Inc. model deprives workers of their bas…
Heather Mathiesen, the vice-president and general manager of Caneda Transport, remembers the day she was told women don’t run trucking companies. Her uncle was the one who told her.
That didn’t scare her away from the transportation industry, though. W…
David Goruk, Northbridge Insurance’s manager of Ontario and Atlantic risk services, still remembers his first visit to a small mom-and-pop trucking operation in Southwestern Ontario. After a quick review of the paperwork, he stumbled across details abo…
Dr. Melissa Snider-Adler, the chief medical review officer of DriverCheck, leaves little doubt that people are performing safety-sensitive work with drugs in their system.
Thirty-five per cent of people who use cannabis do so three or more days per wee…