‘Pallets won’t be touched by a human before going into the tower,’ Groupe Robert CEO says of CA$150 million facility Imagine a distribution center that
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Month: March 2021
Make-A-Wish Mother’s Day Convoy will look drastically different this year
The annual Make-A-Wish Mother’s Day Truck Convoy in Pennsylvania is set to return on May 9, 2021, after being delayed due to COVID in 2020,
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Wondering what’s going on with those new weigh-in-motion sensors in Indiana?
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) released a statement to explain the purpose of several new “poles and cameras” installed on U.S. 30 in Porter
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Edmonton hopes to draw back transit riders during pandemic
Public transit not a COVID-19 super-spreader environment, transit advisory board says The City of Edmonton will try to woo riders back to public transit as buses
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British Columbia awards Quartz Bridge deal
The British Columbia government has awarded Pennecon Heavy Civil a contract to replace the aging two-lane bridge at Quartz Creek with a new four-lane bridge.
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Town of Fox Creek suspends road use fees
Information was brought forward during the March 15 council meeting regarding mutual dissent with the program and the inconsistencies discovered with the current Bylaws. Considering
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Commercial trucks are ripe for electrification, if policies back EV adoption
A Berkeley Lab report says that a lack of policies is blocking wider adoption of electric trucks. Even so, ventures are under way to shift
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CP acquires American railway for $25 billion, creating Canada-US-Mexico link
Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway has announced its plan to acquire Kansas City Southern (KCS) in a deal worth USD$25 billion in cash and shares, plus
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CTA Touts Progress in Canadian ELD Certification
Despite concerns about the lack of certified electronic logging devices in Canada with a June deadline looming, the Canadian Trucking Alliance this week said the
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Samuel, Son & Co. donates $9,700 to truck driver scholarship
Samuel, Son & Co. doesn’t hire entry-level truck drivers as soon as they finish their training. The business of moving steel isn’t an entry-level job
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