Over The Road

A trip back in time reviewing an article from 1992 by American Shipper speaking into the North American Free Trade Agreement and what it meant to cross-border trade.   …read more

Military veterans already have a substantial amount of training around heavy equipment.   Taking this experience and knowledge and applying it into a trucking career is turning into a beautiful [...]

The cost of diesel fuel continues to rise.  However it’s still .69 cents per gallon cheaper than it was a year ago at this time. …read more

Transport Canada announced that FP Innovations will be the first third-party company able to verify that the ELD (Electronic Logging Device) equipment carriers use meets the standards.  But some [...]

CBSA started experiencing an increase in processing delays partly due to volume along with some recent IT upgrades on November 3rd.   CTA (Canadian Trucking Alliance) has been monitoring the [...]

The reality of Autonomous trucks on our roadways is no longer a distant vision.  As the FMCSA watches this increasing interest within our industry they are looking for feedback to help them to [...]

The Canadian spot market surged in September marking it as the strongest year over year growth in a one month period in over 2 years. The Ontario and Quebec markets benefitted the most by this [...]

Ontario and Quebec fleets that parked their trucks at the onset of Covid-19 are slowly returning to service according to insurance data presented for the Toronto Trucking Association.    …read more

The complexity behind the HOS change in the sleeper berth rule seems to have caused drivers to ignore it.  It is essentially not a new rule but an addition to the existing rule. But if not used [...]

Canada requires third party certification for Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) to be in compliance with the upcoming Jun 2021 FMCSA mandate.  Transport Canada expects these facilities to be in [...]