A truck driver suffered a medical emergency while behind the wheel, causing him to lose control and crash into a house in Port au Port West, killing an elderly woman who was inside the residence.
The 61-year-old driver also died, and police say t…
A flat tire wasn’t enough to cause a pickup truck to stop on Topsail Road in Mount Pearl late Tuesday night. Neither was an attempt by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary to have the vehicle pull over.
However, after following the truck to a nearby res…
A provincial transportation and works truck driver was trapped in his truck for nearly two hours Tuesday after his truck pulled down electrical wires and cracked off a utility pole that also held a transformer.
The incident happened at the Foxtrap weig…
Local Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis. (Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File)Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Friday, May 15, 2020:
There have been 21,494 confirmed cases o…
OTTAWA, Ont. – The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) has been named to Canada’s Covid-19 Supply Council, which will advise the government on the procurement of critical goods and services during the response to the virus and related recovery efforts.The…
EDWARDSVILLE, N.S. — John Mulrooney, known to his friends as Papa John, has been on the road in all kinds of weather and has seen it all in his 40 years behind the wheel. With 2-1/2 years left to go before retirement, he is still out there doing his jo…
OTTAWA, Ont. – Statistics Canada today issued a flash estimate for GDP, showing a decline of 9% in March, marking the largest single month decline ever seen since records were tracked beginning in 1961.The agency’s flash estimate points to a 2.6% decli…
EDWARDSVILLE, N.S. – S&M Trucking’s John Power, who has been driving trucks for more than 25 years, has never seen anything like the Covid-19 pandemic.“Even during the SARS and H1N1 scare, it wasn’t like this,” he said during a telephone inter…
TORONTO, Ont. — Susie Deridder began to notice a change in her loads as the stories of Covid-19 began to emerge.“I was hauling more food products as well, and we were receiving satellite messages requesting more drivers to cover the extra grocery order…
TORONTO, Ont. — Susie Deridder began to notice a change in her loads as the stories of Covid-19 began to emerge.“I was hauling more food products as well, and we were receiving satellite messages requesting more drivers to cover the extra grocery order…
OTTAWA, Ont. – The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has taken aim a at a carbon tax-related trucking regulation as it doles out its Paperweight Awards for the worst examples of useless and excessive regulations.
The winners were named…