February, 2023

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February 2023 Freight Market Update

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Subscribe to our newsletter and receive Weekly News Updates every Friday by selecting “Weekly News Update” when you select your preferences. While the U.S. dollar losing value is not good for imports, it has the opposite effect on export activity. Stay Up To dAte Looking for a more frequent update?

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Changes to air brake endorsement renewals are flawed

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The Ontario Ministry of Transportation recently unveiled a proposal to change the way Z endorsements for air brakes are renewed on a driver’s licence — introducing new learning modules and altering the way knowledge is verified.

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Distracted driving comes with risks and penalties

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Distracted driving is any activity that diverts attention from driving — including talking or texting on your phone, eating and drinking, talking to people in your vehicle, or fiddling with the stereo, entertainment or navigation system. Texting is the most alarming distraction.

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The U.S. vaccine mandate on truck drivers should end

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A year has come and gone since ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters converged on Ottawa streets, in what was initially framed as a fight against vaccine mandates for border-crossing truck drivers. It didn’t take long for their messages to degenerate into anti-government tirades and conspiracy theories about Covid-19, of course.

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Ammonia will create the road to the hydrogen economy

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Everybody knows the acrid, distinctly unpleasant smell of ammonia. But I bet that not many of us understand that it could save our tiny planet from the environmental devastation we’re struggling to prevent. It’s one of the most produced industrial chemicals in the world, somewhere between 70% and 85% of it used to make agricultural […]

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New trucks and old wisdom will keep drivers safer

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The technology of trucking has changed vastly in the last few decades. I would even suggest that there have been more technological changes since the mid 1990s than there were between the dawn of the horseless carriage and the 1980s. While drivetrains and cab comforts evolved with each passing year, many improvements still took quite […]

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High driver turnover? Spoiler Alert: It could be the pay

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When Glen Parsons purchased Alchemist Specialty Carriers in Langley, B.C., he knew he had his work cut out for him. The former owner of Coastal Pacific Xpress (CPX) was enjoying retirement mode. When I spoke to him about his latest venture he was wintering in Mexico. But the opportunity to take something broken (Alchemist was […]