Omnitracs, a Solera company, recently announced its Intelligent Vehicle Gateway electronic logging device (ELD) has received mandatory third-party certification in Canada. The ELD mandate requires
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Month: March 2022
Love’s opens new truck stops in Tennessee, New York
The 13,000 square foot Newport, Tennessee store is located at 1129 Smokey Mountain Lane, off of I-40. Amenities at the Newport store include: Chester’s Chicken,
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List of Third Party Certified ELDs Continues to Grow
With three months left to go before the enforcement of Transport Canada’s ELD mandate for federally regulated trucking companies, the three certification bodies approved by
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Truck driver caught hauling 6 duffle bags of cocaine across U.S.-Canada border
DETROIT – A truck driver caught with six duffle bags of cocaine before crossing the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit to Canada claims he doesn’t know
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Provincial penalties against protest truck drivers expired after 1 week
Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation has not confirmed if there will be any additional penalties Truck drivers penalized with provincial infractions for their involvement in the
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Energy analyst warns of soaring diesel prices
One of Canada’s leading energy analysts is warning of “stratospheric” diesel prices in coming weeks and months, and the pressure is not limited to Russia’s
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Driving Autocar’s DC-64R vocational truck
You’ve likely yet to see one in the wild, rare as they are, but the Autocar DC-64 severe-service trucks are beginning to trickle into Canada.
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‘We ignited a fire’ police force removes Canadian trucker protest, but issues not fully resolved
Heavily armed riot police used force to remove the last of the Canadian truckers from the capital of Ottawa, Ontario over the weekend (Feb. 19-20).
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PENSKE AUTOMOTIVE GROUP ACQUIRES TEAM TRUCK CENTRES IN ONTARIO, CANADA
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., Feb. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Penske Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: PAG), a diversified international transportation services company and one of the world’s
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Ottawa siege left trucking with a black eye
Before I write anything else, let me start this way. While I’m passionately in favor of Covid-19 vaccines for all, I think it was a
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