Report recommends retrofitting City vehicles City of Toronto staff report aims to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety by adding side guards to City-owned heavy-duty vehicles City of Toronto staff are recommending actions to improve pedestrian safety by adding side guards
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TTSAO blames “pressure from fly-by-night schools and unqualified graduates” Humber College will close its truck driver training program at the the end of this year, it says in a statement posted to the college’s website. “Humber has made the difficult
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Tow Zone Pilots would become permanent projects On October 21, the Ontario government introduced the Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act. If passed, the proposed legislation would require municipalities to receive approval from the province before installing new bike lanes
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“Weather changes, and we’ve got 50 cars lined behind a truck“ Increasing speed limits on the 400-series highways for personal automobiles to 110 km/hour while leaving transport trucks governed at 105 could make congestion worse, not better, says risk management
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October 17th launch date For the first time in Canadian history, the professional instructors who train Ontario’s truck drivers will have access to the world-leading Instructor Certification Program of the Commercial Vehicle Training Association (CVTA). The CVTA is the largest
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“It’s not new to us:” TTSAO Ontario’s Truck driver training industry was the subject of a scathing CBC Marketplace segment on October 11th. Journalists went undercover with a student looking for truck driver training at several trucking schools located in
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We’ll have “50 cars in a lineup behind a truck” Doug Ford’s commitment to raise speed limits on the 400-series highways to 110 km/hour won’t solve congestion problems, but could actually make them worse, says Shane Cutler of Cutler TCMS
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Carbon taxes causing price increases everywhere In his October 13 update, Dan McTeague notes that “for gasoline and diesel, we’re seeing a bit of an uptrend in the prices and now a bit of a decrease as a result of
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