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From Yellow to Red Why do some freight movers fail? Some say failure is success in progress. Through failure one can learn from mistakes and keep moving forward. But how can an almost 100-year-old trucking company not have learned from past...
Any time you’re operating in what’s called the “Eastern Seaboard”, basically anything within 100 miles west of I-95, you really do need your head on a swivel. If you’re just passing through, say going from Florida, Georgia or the...

Closed roads

Recently the news reported on a situation that has the potential to turn fatal, and is at the very least a major inconvenience - being stranded on a closed, desolate stretch of highway, with literally nowhere to go. Winter...
Acute shortage of 20,500 drivers; Immediate action required to address adverse impacts on Canada’s economy  TORONTO (March 11, 2020) – Trucking HR Canada (THRC) released its newest Labour Market Information (LMI) report today titled The Road Ahead: Addressing Canada’s Trucking and Logistics Industry Labour...
Bruce Outridge President Artist, Author, Consultant, Speaker Over the years I have been telling people especially those in the trucking industry that keeping up with technology should be of the utmost importance. With the pandemic in full swing the need has become...
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...
Have you been feeling like some days take forever?  Or that it seems like the Spring was only yesterday?   You are not alone.  Recent research in the UK validated what many of us have been feeling- that one...
It has been a couple of weeks now that we have been braving the winter season. Statistically, this is when carriers have most of our “minor” property damage incidents. If you do not have one, stop reading, research and...
A motion by Brampton Regional Councillor Gurpreet Singh Dhillon to increase Brampton’s truck parking supply was unanimously passed by City Council his week. The motion directs Council and city staff to work with private landowners, the peel Goods Movement Task...
The American Transportation Research Institute, the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research organization, released its 17th annual Top Industry Issues report, identifying a number of the industry’s key concerns including the driver shortage, driver retention, driver compensation, lawsuit abuse reform, truck...