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Canada’s federally regulated carriers now face a mandate to equip trucks with certified electronic logging devices (ELDs), but individual provinces are taking different approaches when it comes to penalties and deciding whether to apply the rules to provincially regulated carriers. The varied approaches have been highlighted in a chart developed by the Canadian Trucking Alliance, […]

British Columbia is planning to mandate speed limiters on heavy-duty commercial vehicles, in a bid to reduce speed-related crashes and greenhouse gases. Rob Fleming, B.C. minister of transportation and infrastructure, […] Source: Truck News

The fact Freightliner’s M2 medium-duty and SD vocational models haven’t seen a serious revamp is a testament to their popularity. But, said officials when recently unveiling their first major makeover, the time has come to change that. “Some of our feedback has been, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” said Aaron Scates, vice-president –

Backing a tractor-trailer accurately and safely is a skill that has to be learned and mastered. You will run into all kinds of different backing situations in your career, but this video demonstrates one of the most common — the straight-in maneuver. Here’s a hint: it all starts with a good set up. Let’s give

June 13 marks the tenth annual National Forklift Safety Day, implemented to reinforce operator safety training and forklift safety procedures. And there are still some lessons to learn when it […] Source: Truck News

It’s time to embrace driving in darkness as clocks are reversing an hour this weekend across most parts of the country. The trucking industry does not have days off and […] Source: Truck News

Canada added 28,500 transport truck drivers in May, contributing to the 305,000 who were on the job – slightly above the annual average seen in 2022, Trucking HR Canada reports […] Source: Truck News

FedEx is hardly new to the journey of electrification. It began experimenting with vehicles powered by lead acid batteries as early as 1992. And this June, FedEx Express Canada received […] Source: Truck News

Matcom, an industrial machinery mover and warehousing operation headquartered in the Greater Toronto Area, is now expanding its reach along the West Coast. The business opened its second office in Surrey, B.C., in early October to support the efforts. While manufacturing, industrial and construction activity has been growing in B.C., businesses in the market are

U.S. for-hire truck tonnage jumped 2.7% in June, according to the American Trucking Associations, reflecting a continued shift of freight from the spot market to contracts. A related index tracking the trends was 7.9% above June 2021 levels. “June’s jump tells me a couple of things: first, the transition in the freight market from spot