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Incidents will happen at every organization; we must work to minimize both the frequency and impact. The adage “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” applies to all carrier operations, especially safety. Every carrier should be seeking...
The message is clear, operate safely or suffer the consequence.  Insurance companies are paying closer attention to their trucking clients than ever before. After several high-profile collisions and the increase in so-called “nuclear verdicts” premiums are on the rise...
“I’ll never know if the sacrifices of losing my first marriage was worth it.” — Daymond John Listening to Daymond John made me think about two things: 1) That many successful entrepreneurs make extreme sacrifices to build their businesses and 2) Is...
Now is a good time to prepare our final wishes and save our family from the hardship of planning our funeral and interment. The people involved would be our Financial Planner, Estate Planner, Accountant, Lawyer and Funeral Director, Minister, Prepaid...
Recently I reached out to our driver members and asked them about the stresses they are experiencing due to the COVID 19 Pandemic.  Challenges included access to personal protection supplies and cleaners, finding facilities open for rest stops and...
An uneasy summer during an uneasy year, 2020 is a year of change and challenge. The world economy has been ravaged, so too the world’s health by COVID-19, a pandemic, a deathly disease that spreads worldwide. But it appears...
Please say it ain't so! It's looking like COVID-19 may cause the death of one of mankind's most gracious forms of connecting with another individual, one that has been around for centuries. The pandemic health crisis is impacting on...
One of Canada’s most dangerous jobs, just got more dangerous. Truck drivers are now, like it or not, on the frontline fighting Covid-19 delivering essential goods. Drivers run the risk of frequently being exposed to the virus. They may...
Economically and socially the effects have been unprecedented and it is now obvious that things will not be returning to what we knew as normal anytime soon.  With world economies shrinking, the affects are bringing the transport world to...
Covid-19 has not only sickened the world population, it has also diseased the world economy. Leading economist David Rosenberg told BNN Bloomberg (Business News Network) that the aftereffects of Covid-19 on the world economy may be 10 times worse than the 2008...