I'm surprised, but certainly glad, to see that Kriska, Highland, Challenger, et al. are all hiring again. I was, however, rather dismayed to see...
Since no one else has said it: Buy the best work gloves you can. Yes, I mean spend $20-$30 on a pair, and buy a pair of good insulated work...
Heh, I did something similar when fueling my truck at a cardlock in Calgary, AB after dropping my trailer. Another driver from my company who'd...
Heh, how many times was I late in '08? I generally do P&D for an LTL company and meet only 20% of my appointment times. In fact, we often get...
If you're going to park it in a windstorm, find a place where you can basically jackknife the combination into the wind, just like an arrow's tip...
Like many users, I used to go back and forth on whether I liked my job and why I got into trucking in the first place, until I realized something:...
Heh, yup. I remember the first time I ever got behind the wheel of a truck with a 244" wheelbase. I'd been driving daycabs with wheelbases less...
I'm with 2hellandback on this one. Did you even read that post before you responded to it?
I have had receivers pull this trick, and I have developed a solution that I learned working in waste services and hauling scrap metal that has...
From experience and from asking around, I've found the following: Generally, English speakers run 19 from Alberta to Ontario. In Ontario,...
I'm glad RickG posted that video because at the 5:50 mark it contains an observation that I intended to make to his post in the other Ontario...
And for the record, DD14 and I agree that comprehension of at least one of Canada's official languages (French or English) should be a basic...
Sure, in retrospect I can see why DD14 misperceives me as an ardent supporter of speed limiter legislation because he makes the understandable...
Sorry, but can you detail how you arrived at an estimation of my value of freedom of choice? Especially when it applies to the private-for-profit...
Sorry, but I never cease to be amazed by drivers who fail to realize that the truck they're driving is a commercial vehicle and consequently is...
I used to work for a roll-off waste company, and we had one driver who always brought a rod to work. Knowing he had a family and typically put in...
I wouldn't dispute his math too much. At the company for which I drove two years ago, I once divided my weekly gross pay by all on-duty hours in...
At JGWhtmn: A good point. The owner of my current carrier's considering another interesting option for company equipment: a GPS-based ECM mod...
I did a little research into this company to get a more balanced picture of All Points Freight Inc, than the one provided here to see if they were...
You should feature the Toronto Star's coverage of the protest, which featured the headline "Truck Protest Fizzles Out..." and states that a mere...
