Trucking
Ontario Investing in Hydrogen to Fuel Province’s Growing Economy
Projects to explore expanding hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel MARKHAM – The Ontario government announced on October 12 the first six projects that will receive funding through the new Hydrogen Innovation Fund, which will kickstart and develop
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Taxi driving in Thunder Bay circa 1985: Don Taylor’s driving career gets started
I had always loved driving, and mom once told me the only car seat she could put me in where I wouldn’t cry was one with a steering wheel. I, of course, have no memory of this. I started driving taxi not thinking of it as a start to a trucking career. Instead, I just figured it would do until “something better comes along.” It would be nine years of “making do” before I made the jump to being a full-time truck driver.
My test drive with Roach’s was with one of their big commercial customers, mainly to see how I’d treat the vehicle on rough roads. The owner’s brother was the road tester, meaning, of course, that I was gentle with the car.
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Truckers’ petition has November 15th deadline
Truckers for Safer Highways have worked with federal Member of Parliament Mike Morrice (Kitchener Centre) to petition Canada’s Transport Minister for improved training and enforcement standards in commercial trucking. “We have 120 days to get 500 signatures, in order for
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Miracles from nothing during Freedom Convoy
Pots of soup, plates of food by Donna Laframboise Part 1: It Was a Prison At six o’clock each morning, when Sandra opened the tent and began cooking breakfast outdoors on a windy Ottawa street, she encountered the same two homeless
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Day #3 BC trial: security threat closes court room, police onsite
The British Columbia COVID vaccine exemption trial was disrupted on October 6th by a “security threat” which saw police arrive to evacuate the court room. “It was pretty disappointing in that I travelled all the way to BC for this
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