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“Some of the weirdest things have happened to me in life.” Photo: Jeff Childs by Jeff Childs Three years ago today, I was hauling a slop-taker out of Ft. Mac down to Elk point. Some of the weirdest things have

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Guest Contributions Opinion/Column Trucking

The day that freedom reigned in Canada

February 25, 2023 Guest Contributor

The trucks appeared with the force of a thousand chariots charging into battle. In one fell swoop they broke us free from our terminal hypnosis. This was the moment covid was over.

Shelley Walker (centre) of the Women's Trucking Federation of Canada. Photo: RWN

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NATT wraps the first “Know Human Trafficking” trailer in the North

February 24, 2023 Rita Smith

Brian Pattison of NATT; Shelley Walker of WTFC; and Samantha Clarke of DriveWise are all Ambassadors for the Know Human Trafficking program. Photo: Nico Charalambous for TTSAO “There are at least 50 Truck schools that are part of TTSAO,” says

Feature/Profile News Trucking

TTSAO conference speakers educate, motivate

February 22, 2023 Rita Smith

Dr. Heider Al-Mashalah of the McMaster Digital Transformation Research Centre Photo: Asafo Addai The Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) 30th Anniversary conference kicked off February 21st with speakers including Dr. Heider Al-Mashalah of the McMaster Digital Transformation Research

TTSAO celebrated its 30th anniversary at last year's conference. In 2024, it is taking a "quantum leap forward" on Leap Year, February 29th. Image: Asafo Addai

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“Technology in training” key theme at TTSAO 30th anniversary conference February 21-22

February 21, 2023 Rita Smith

“Training with Technology” will be a key theme at the TTSAO’s 30th Anniversary Conference February 21 and 22.

The Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) is back on track with its annual conference schedule, after missing two annual conferences due to COVID-19 then hosting a “summer solution” in 2022.

President Philip Fletcher is enthusiastic about this year’s accent on technology and is particularly keen on demonstrations of simulator training.

Guest Commentary Opinion/Column Trucking

Trudeau used the Emergencies Act to nuke Bouncy Castles

February 20, 2023 Lindsay Prescott

Back in 1970 Tommy Douglas was the only Member of Parliament to vote against Pierre Trudeau imposing the War Measures Act. He called it trying to “Kill a Mouse with a Sledgehammer.

Justin Trudeau did the same thing, only this time he used a nuclear bomb to kill Bouncy Castles.

Just look to other countries that have recently had REAL emergencies with bombs and killing in the streets like France, England, Egypt, Guatemala, and many others.

Feature/Profile Trucking

Is it spring yet?

February 20, 2023 Rita Smith

Is it spring yet? Kyle Marshall of Visser’s Sod Farm spent most of February refurbishing one of the go-to watering trucks:

On the Road with Mike Murchison Opinion/Column Trucking

Why now, brown cow? Well, why not?

February 19, 2023 Rita Smith

So why now? Why haul cows at my age? Hell, I’m 61 years old. I should be looking for the least amount of physical stress that might be available to me.

But no!

Guest Contributions Opinion/Column Trucking

When the Most Cynical Amongst Us Are Proved Right

February 18, 2023 Guest Contributor

“Enjoy the report.” Those were the last words Commissioner Paul Rouleau uttered before rising and leaving the room yesterday. The room in which he cheerfully announced that the Canadian government was justified when it invoked the Emergencies Act against festive, peaceful, working class protesters a year ago.

Which part did he imagine we’d enjoy? The knowledge that there’s absolutely no accountability in our political system? The knowledge that a vast network of supposed checks and balances (funded year in and year out by the sweat of working Canadians) offers us no protection from tyrannical, rogue politicians?