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Friday, April 26, 2024
On the heels of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) recently releasing its comprehensive COVID-19 recovery roadmap for the trucking industry, the Alliance has provided Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) with several environmentally-related program and policy changes that can help stimulate...
 It is with sadness OTA announces the passing of former OTA President/Chair and founder of International Truckload Services, Max Haggarty. He was 85. Max served as President of the Ontario Trucking Association from 1975-1976 A private graveside service will be held...
September is here and our World has changed drastically from where it was six months ago. The pandemic shutdown our lives in one swoop as everyone was ordered to stay home. I remember in early March being at the Brampton Trucking...
Limited food options, no gyms, and no socializing for drivers added to their stress. Throw in the closing of rest areas along the highways and then add the prohibition of using a customer’s restrooms because of sanitization issues. You’ve...
While Canada and much of the world closed their borders and locked up their businesses in an attempt to conquer Coronavirus, Sweden chose to conduct a wild and criticized science experiment with its population. It may have gone terribly...
The Government of Canada has given the trucking industry strong and immediate support throughout the COVID-19 crisis through multiple departments and ministers. The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) believes this pattern of cohesive and comprehensive action will be the recipe for...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that starting July 30, all Ports of Entry (POE), including the Ambassador Bridge, Blue Water Bridge and Cornwall crossings, will began collecting personal contact information from exempt travellers (symptomatic or asymptomatic),...
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...
With less than a year to go for the implementation of the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate, federal Transportation Minister Marc Garneau is once again displaying leadership on road safety by reminding the trucking industry and the Canadian public the...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford visited one of Ontario’s largest trucking companies yesterday and took time to thank trucking industry workers for their tireless efforts in keeping the Ontario economy moving during the COVID-19 crisis. The Premier toured Challenger Motor Freight...