London Cabbies pay respects into the night
Why I love London cabbies ??? https://t.co/ijhR9ltBrW — vitaminsea? (@greekblue1) September 8, 2022
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Celebrate National Trucking Week with “Stories from the Road”
Trucker/writer Don Taylor is celebrating two big things during National Trucker’s Week (September 4 top 11 in Canada, 11 to 18 in the United States).
First, is hopefully going back to work after a summer off due to illness; second, is the fact that the release of the Audible version of his book, “Stories from the Road,” has quintupled sales of the book.
“The Audible version is selling five or six times for every paper copy,” Taylor told Road Warrior News. Clearly, his audience has more time to listen than they do to read.
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NATIONAL TRUCKING WEEK AND NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVER APPRECIATION WEEK
Photo: “Heavy Lifting” by Mike Murchison The industry will be celebrating National Trucking Week in CanadaSeptember 4-10, 2022; and National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (NTDAW) in the U.S.September 11-17, 2022. The first official National Truck Driver Appreciation Week was held
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“How to hail a Taxi” wiki has almost 100k views
A generation of young people who grew up summoning a rideshare driver through an app are getting helpful advice on how to hail a Taxi from WikiHow. “How to hail a Taxi” has been viewed 96,605 times.
In a “wiki” published in May 2022, WikiHow staff writer Kyle Hall provide instruction on at least four ways to hail a cab from the street.
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Impaired driving incidents down across Canada but up in Ontario
Statistics Canada reported August 2nd that while police report that impaired driving incidents decreased across the nation in 2021 over 2020, Ontario actually reported an increase of 7 per cent.
A growing proportion of impaired driving charges (11 per cent) involve drugs, or drugs and alcohol together, rather than alcohol only.
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ArriveCAN and quarantine measures challenged by Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
The Justice Centre filed a lawsuit today in the Federal Court of Canada, on behalf of 11 Canadians either fined for not using the ArriveCAN and/or ordered to quarantine for 14 days after returning home from abroad. The Applicants involved in this legal challenge have received fines of up to $8,500 each and been forced to disclose private medical information via ArriveCAN. The legal challenge seeks to strike down the mandatory use of ArriveCAN and declare unconstitutional the 14-day quarantine requirements for Canadians who refuse to use ArriveCAN when returning home.
Read MoreToronto makes $0 from pot shops, Mayor Tory learns 3 years after legalization
Three years after the sale of cannabis was legalized in Ontario, Toronto Mayor John Tory learned the city does not generate any revenues from these stores. In an email obtained through Freedom of Information by Taxi News, Tory’s advisor Steevan
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A different angle on the Pope’s visit
Photo: RWN A bus driver in Alberta provided Road Warrior News with these photos of empty busses lined up in a lot booked for the Pope’s visit to Edmonton. “Hundreds of busses were booked to travel to Manitoba and Saskatchewan,
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TTSAO conference July 26-27 Brampton
Photo: YouTube The 6th Annual TTSAO Conference is scheduled for July 26-27, 2022. The agenda and format are below.
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