Where the rubber meets the road
Photo: AMB AMB Driving School has eliminated the two hour in-car driving component of its Vehicle for Hire Training. AMB owner Shafique Malik told Taxi News that it was the most expensive component of the training, and that it was impossible to compete with the fully online DRVRhub course, which was suspended
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Photo: Toronto.ca Time should be the essence of a driver training program, the City of Toronto appears to have determined. In deciding whether or not to honour the 3754 certificates printed and paid for by Vehicle for Hire (VFH) drivers who took the Toronto-approved DRVRhub on-line course, Licensing staff are informing registrants
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Central Taxi drivers Mohammed Dahir and Mohammad Omar provide services to Niagara's Taxi medical program, which has provided a boon to drivers and enormous savings to the Region. Photo: Central Taxi ***** Sending select passengers to hospital by Taxi rather than by ambulance is saving Niagara Region approximately $1000 per trip,
Read MoreBorden Ladner Gervais LLP - Maude Galarneau, Patrick Trent and Samuel Roy Context In the fall of 2021, Canada's minister of transport issued by ministerial orders a mandatory vaccination requirement for federally regulated marine, air and rail transportation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Steelworkers challenged some of these ministerial orders by way of judicial
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Photo by Mike Murchison I flung the seatbelt off like a bat out of hell. It was when my hand grabbed the door handle that it hit me. I could take that anger to this encounter, or I could look for a more constructive way to approach it. He tried to
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Photo: Don Taylor Don Taylor's book "Stories from the Road" is officially now available on Audible. The stories - which are in turn hilarious, absorbing and shocking - got started as stories told around a campfire during fun times with family and friends. So many friends urged Taylor to write them down,
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Photo: FriesenPress Mere minutes into beginning Don Taylor’s “Stories from the Road: My Years as a Long Haul Trucker,” my jaw literally dropped open in awe; a few moments later, I gasped in shock. Seconds after that, I was laughing out loud. I’ve laughed a lot reading this book; it’s been a
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