“Effects on supply chain unlike anything ever experienced” by Don Taylor On Tuesday March 26, the Singaporean-registered container ship Dali experienced an as yet undetermined malfunction and collided with the southern support town for the Frances Scott Key bridge spanning
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The business impacts of the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge are going to be "epic" says Trucker Don Taylor. Photo: PBS
It’s not a time management tip; it’s an attitude “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming.” That’s not a time management tip; that’s an attitude to see you through the worst of times. This week, watching the video clip of the Francis
Read MoreHighway 101 “looks like someone drove along throwing hand grenades out the window” While virtually none of the highway infrastructure projects listed in Ontario’s 2024 Budget are new, even the re-announces are good news, says Travis McDougall of Truckers for
Read MoreBudget funds earmarked for boosting “Transparency and Accountability” in schools “We can hope,” about the $15 million announced in Ontario’s March 26 Ontario Budget says Philip Fletcher, president of the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO). “If this money
Read Moreby Donna Laframboise I’ve recently mentioned that public health officials in New Brunswick refuse to explain their pandemic decisions. People who turned our lives inside out for two years now don’t feel any obligation to defend their reasoning. But our problem is
Read More$32 billion has been collected in carbon tax revenue since 2019, reports the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). “Though the government promised to rebate 9 per cent of that amount to small businesses, only 0.17 per cent has been
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Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria officially opened the new $30 million inspection station near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo: @PrabSarkaria
Increased inspections, improved training needed for Trucking safety, Sarkaria says Ontario’s Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria was in Shuniah on March 15th to marking the opening of a new commercial vehicle inspection station on Highway 11/17, generally referred to as the
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Screen grab from CBC's undercover camera videotaping a driving instructor explaining how students pay to receive forged certificates which state they have received training they did not receive. Photo: CBC
“Biggest lesson? It’s easy to cheat the system” The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) sent reporters with hidden cameras undercover to expose driving schools selling fraudulent certificates for cash. The result was angry instructors, with at least one sending threatening texts
Read MoreA Google search of “Quebec Farmers” turns up no coverage of the protest which took place in Rimouski, Quebec over the weekend. The taxpayer-funded CBC is running a piece on the stress associated with farming but does not mention the
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