Transportation Drop the cell phone and focus on the road February 1, 2022 Twenty years ago I wrote a stupid editorial in this magazine. Like, really stupid. I admitted that I should be the utterly responsible commentator and agree that cell phones are…
Trucking is at a watershed moment, needs big-picture thinking January 4, 2022 Never have I been able to keep one, so no resolutions for the new year in this quarter. It’s just an exercise in frustration. And I’ll bet that most of…
Truck drivers are re-evaluating their lives, too December 1, 2021 There’s a clumsy sign taped beneath the menu and ordering screen at my local coffee joint’s drive-through lane. It bugs me a lot. It’s on ordinary white 8.5×11 printer paper,…
Equipment Hydra Energy retrofits add to a changing truck market November 1, 2021 What on earth have we seen unleashed in the truck-making world? Everybody and his third cousin twice removed has launched a new truck or soon will. If not a new…
Equipment Most of you can ignore the electric truck ‘hype’ September 30, 2021 The hype is extreme. Everywhere I turn, I’m assailed by news about the wonders of the plug-in battery electric truck (BEV), and no less about fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) in…
Business Management How to lead a productive meeting — if you have to September 3, 2021 Thankfully, and I really mean that, I don’t have to take part in multi-person meetings any more, being mostly retired. Not the awful Zoom things that the pandemic created for…
Equipment Clifford came back! August 30, 2021 After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Great Lakes Truck Club got approval just six weeks ago to stage their Antique & Classic Truck Show in Clifford, Ont.
Human Resources We’re failing the literacy test August 4, 2021 One of my dearest friends, long gone now, could not read. We’d been close for something like 15 years, speaking every few days, seeing each other every two or three…
Health & Safety Truck drivers lack a united voice for lobbying July 5, 2021 Drivers are a little hard to understand in one key respect, and I say that after having spent more than 40 fulfilling years in their company: they won’t organize themselves…
Health & Safety My daughter’s accident reinforces drinking and driving stance May 31, 2021 I have a confession to make: I’m very nearly a teetotaler. I do have maybe two or three glasses of wine a year with dinner, and for three successive nights…
Equipment Hydrogen, now mainstream May 3, 2021 You don’t have to look very hard at all to be inundated by news about electric cars and buses and trucks these days. In the four-wheel world, some manufacturers plan…
Human Resources Driver shortage and its solutions are the same the world over April 1, 2021 Misery loves company, or so people say. If that’s true, Canadian drivers and fleet managers might be at least a little glad to know that the scarcity of safe truck…
Health & Safety Put truck drivers at head of vaccine line March 3, 2021 Truck drivers absolutely have to be priorities in the disorganized, shockingly slow roll-out of Covid-19 vaccinations. An early spot in the queue is utterly essential, especially for the cross-border folks…
Equipment Battery-electric trucks charging ahead February 1, 2021 If you ever doubted that an electric truck or two would soon be in your yard, better revise your thinking. Whether using batteries or a hydrogen fuel cell, they’re coming…
Health & Safety It’s time to address driver burnout January 7, 2021 There’s a reason why your rear-facing mirrors are small and your windshield is so much bigger — because there’s not often a good reason to look back and it’s always…