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Mercedes-Benz is bringing the much awaited battery-electric eSprinter van to Canada and U.S. The production will commence in South Carolina in the second half of 2023.  The company has invested around €350 million to produce the new eSprinter which will...
“CVSA Conducts Unannounced Brake Safety Day Across North America” On April 19, 2023, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) inspected 6,829 commercial motor vehicles throughout Canada, Mexico and the U.S. as part of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety...
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...
Anyone who wants to travel these days is wondering what’s going on with the borders, can we go across? What do we need to do? What do we need to bring with us?  USA BORDERS: On Friday October 29, 2021,...
The BC Trucking Association (BCTA) says that results of a second COVID-19 Impact Survey of its members, focusing on operational challenges for April 2020, indicate that trucking and motor coach companies and the suppliers who support them in providing...
WSIB chair Elizabeth Witmer announced at the board’s AGM today that the WSIB will be holding all premium rates at their 2020 level for 2021.    This means employers in the trucking industry will pay the same premium rate in 2021...
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...
Approximately 800,000 food service jobs have been lost across Canada in the past month and about one in 10 restaurants in the country have permanently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey suggests. Restaurants Canada, a not-for-profit association...
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 coronavirus, or COVID-19, has tossed another degree of vulnerability into the 2020 standpoint for the transportation business. Then, spot rates are relied upon to increase as agreement rates fall this year, a coordinations official said. Spot rates allude...