Ontario Dump Truck Drivers begin job action
Members of the Ontario Dump Truck Association (ODTA) began a job action on March 21, 2022.
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Jaw-dropping, shocking, hilariously fun reading: Don Taylor’s “Stories from the Road”
Don Taylor spent the first nine years of career driving Taxi in Thunder Bay before he transitioned to Truck driving. His stories from both industries are fast-paced, vivid and memorable. He spent years around the campfire with family and friends, regaling them with Taxi and Trucking stories before they finally convinced him to put the stories in writing, in a book.
“I have thousands of them, really,” Taylor told Road Warrior News shortly after the book’s launch. “I hardly knew where to start. But once I got a rhythm in place, writing every weekend I was home, one story led to another and I would look up to see five or six hours had passed.”
Read MoreHow to find a job – in case you really want to
by Hans Wienhold Editor’s Note: All dollar figures in this article are listed in 2002 dollars. I had a job once where I would interview a random sampling of people to get information about their labour market participation. A number
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Niagara’s transition to single transit commission shifts into gear
Niagara Region has now completed all 12 local area municipal council presentations and secured the required triple-majority support to move forward to create a consolidated transit Commission for the Region.
The transition to a single, consolidated public transit system will now begin with the goal of beginning operations in January 2023.
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Are we addicted to noise?
Photo: “The peace that passes all understanding” by Mike Murchison. It’s getting more difficult to find peace and quiet in 2022. Well. I walk into the driver’s lounge at the Space Age Truckstop here in Hermiston, Oregon. There’s a huge,
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Safer Highways Discussion: reader letters and comments
“I am wondering why there isn’t a graduated licensing system for truck drivers?”
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Commercial Vehicle Driver Safety Improvement Proposal
We are a group of professional, working Truck drivers.
We are alarmed at the number of severe, avoidable collisions involving commercial vehicles we see on an almost-daily basis. While these incidents have becoming increasingly worse in Northern Ontario, it has become a problem throughout the entire country.
Our hope is to see commercial drivers become the safest drivers on the highways, as this should be the case already.
Read MoreCTV reports that Humbolt crash driver loses bid to stay in Canada
CTV says that according to Michael Greene, the immigration lawyer representing Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, his submission to Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has been rejected. Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and
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Ottawa Police sending out non-ticket, non-legal proceeding letters
In what appears to be a brand-new tactic developed to persuade Canadians to “change your driving habits,” the Ottawa Police Service is sending letters to drivers about whom there were complaints during the recent Freedom Convoy 2022 event in February.
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