KNOYDART, N.S. —Frazer Hunter looks out his office window and truly appreciates his surroundings.
“We don’t count our blessings enough as Nova Scotians as to what we’ve got here,” says the Knoydart, Antigonish County resident, while gazing across Highw…
FREDERICTON, N.B. – New Brunswick has joined Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia in tightening truck driver recruitment.It has established a pathway specific to transport truck drivers (NOC 7511) within the Provincial Nominee Program’s NB Skilled Work…
TORONTO, Ont. – Loblaw is scheduled to secure Canada’s first Freightliner eCascadia trucks, placing an order for five of the electric vehicles that will begin production in the first quarter of 2022.Call it the president’s choice.
One of the earliest e…
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – Prince Edward Island has become the latest Atlantic province to stop accepting truck driver applications under the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP).Nova Scotia froze the trucking segment of the program last month, repla…
HALIFAX, N.S. – Fleets are welcoming Nova Scotia’s decision to stop accepting transport truck driver (NOC 7511) applications under the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP).
The province announced the change recently. It is now urging carriers to …
TORONTO, Ont. — As the Canadian economy crawls back from Covid-19, the trucking industry is bracing for a new battle over an old problem – the driver shortage.In July, Trucking HR Canada released a study on the impact of the pandemic on the industry, w…
TORONTO, Ont. – It helps move cargoes of any size and weight from anywhere to anywhere in North America, but the pilot car industry remains largely unregulated.In interviews this week with Today’s Trucking, stakeholders spoke of a multitude of problems…
SAINT-JACQUES, N.B. – The Province of New Brunswick plans to screen one in six truck drivers for Covid-19 as they cross the provincial border at Saint-Jacques, the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association (APTA) reports.The voluntary program is set to b…
A Canadian acrobatic jet crashed into a British Columbia neighbourhood on Sunday during a flyover intended to boost morale during the pandemic.
One crew member was killed in the crash while another was seriously injured. A house was also set on fire.
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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…
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Prince Edward Island has relaxed its self-isolation rules for truck drivers after the province sparked a furor by imposing a $1,000 fine on a trucker who had ventured out to buy groceries.Philipp Reimus / Photo: Philipp ReimusBu…
CHARLESTON, N.B. – The family of truck driver Chris Hathaway is turning to GoFundMe in the search for the funds to bring his body home.The longtime driving veteran and ice road trucker was found in his trailer on April 25 in Vernon, B.C.
“His sudden pa…
CHARLESTON, N.B. – The family of truck driver Chris Hathaway is turning to GoFundMe in the search for the funds to bring his body home.The longtime driving veteran and ice road trucker was found in his trailer on April 25 in Vernon, B.C.
“His sudden pa…
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…
PORT WILLIAMS, N.S. – Edwin Corkum of Evangeline Transport has been on the road for three weeks. And in many ways, it’s business as usual for his 25-truck operation.In other ways it isn’t.
Family life has certainly changed in the midst of the pandemic….