TORONTO, Ont. – Ever wonder what goes into the decisions behind which components come on your trailer?For an OEM, it’s a complex evaluation that takes many factors into account. Mark Ehrlich, senior director of engineering for Wabash National, gave a T…
TORONTO, Ont. – Jean-Claude Fortin, president and CEO of JE Fortin in St-Bernard de Lacolle, Que., has been named chairman of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA).He begins a two-year term, replacing Scott Smith of JD Smith & Sons.
Jean-Claude Fort…
New holiday destination opens to Sydneysiders from NEXT MONTH as New South Wales successfully suppresses COVID-19
The Northern Territory will open its borders to Australians from Greater Sydney
From October 9 Sydney will no…
A shortage of truck drivers combined with a surge in online and in-store shopping has made trucking unusually expensive.
Retailers are spending around 30% more than they did last year to move goods via truck.
The last time trucking rates so…
TORONTO, Ont. – Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau is praising workers in the trucking industry as the sector celebrates the National Trucking Week.“This year more than ever before you’ve been on the front lines. You have kept our country going, m…
A man was knocked through the window of a restaurant in a suspected hit and run crash in Leicester city centre in the early hours of this morning.
The casualty, who is in his 20s, is one of two people “seriously injured” when a blue VW Golf left the ro…
We’re good at meming things to death in the UK. You know, the kind of videos that the rest of the world really wouldn’t understand, but live on in our collective conscience as perfect little nuggets of what used to be. Surely in no other country would …
A truck driver who attacked a man in an East Yorkshire nightclub because he wiped his nose on his back has been spared jail.
Scott Johnson, 29, was on a night out at The Apollo nightclub in Bridlington on October 27 last year when he felt something bru…
If you are a fan of true crime but you are yet to hear the name Michelle McNamara, you’re in for an eye-opening experience with the TV adaption of her groundbreaking book.
HBO has made a six-part series based on her publication I’ll be Gone in the Da…
A farmer and volunteer police officer found himself back in the day job while on patrol when a lorry full of livestock toppled over.Special constable Michael Scott was called to the overturned truck near Haltwhistle, Northumbe…
Why not make life easier for me and others in the UK going through a crisis right now?” asked the pleading petition created by single mum Shannon Read at the start of lockdown. “It will be worth it; you’d make a lot more money from those who can’t leav…
Truck driver accused of trying to dump eight tonnes of manure outside the premier’s office over a feud with Centrelink goes on an extraordinary courtroom rant
Man tried to dump eight tonnes of manure outside Tasmanian premier’s o…
I’M back on the road. You’d expect that as a travel writer. It feels strange though. Very strange. As strange as the rabbit hole I’ve burrowed down since flying back from Italy as Covid-19 hit there in February. I’ve not been in a hotel or a restaurant…
A Tayside woman has told how her parents dodged fighter plane bullets and took refuge in storm drains on the way to their wedding when Japan attacked Singapore.
Captain Jack Ennis – an army doctor – and nurse Elizabeth Petrie got married just four days…
IT was heartening to hear Aggreko chief executive Chris Weston declare last week that it was “very much business as usual” for the company as it lays the groundwork to provide power to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021.With the Covid-19 pa…