The ongoing “freight recession” is the worst down cycle in many professionals’ careers and causing companies to cease operations. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Warren Buffet is famous for the quote, “A rising tide floats all boats…only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” A deeper meaning to what […]
The public’s perception of truck drivers is overwhelmingly positive. In a research report by Trucking Moves America Forward (TMAF), 87% of survey respondents held favourable impressions of the trucking industry, up from 67% in 2019 when the survey was last taken. Over 50% of respondents said truckers are “safer drivers than the general public”. When […]
The K.I.D. blog written at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, “Keep Calm and Carry on with Humanity” is a message that still resonates nineteen months later. Maybe even more so today. Back when we began physical-distancing and hunkering down in our homes, we didn’t know what would happen. The semiconductor shortage was an issue […]
The annual CVSA Brake Safety Week is scheduled for August 22 – 28, 2021. During this industry-focused safety event, enforcement officials will inspect commercial vehicles and place units out-of-service (OOS) until any critical brake issues or other safe-operating violations are corrected. The last brake safety week found that 12% of commercial vehicles inspected had brake […]
Given our current circumstances, there’s an intense focus on making every dollar go further and every purchase count. We’ve come to equate a low price with good value and there is often waste in this equation. It reminds me of a time when I met a Maintenance Manager for the first time. He kept repeating […]
I had another blog in mind for this month, although with the focus on the novel Coronavirus, it seems tone deaf to pretend we can carry on as we would normally. We’re living through interesting times to say the least. The stock market has plunged more than at any other time in history, the Saudis […]
A tractor trailer on its side against an Esso sign at Eglinton and Mavis after a deadly crash on Jan. 13, 2020. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun) When did you ever think that the Peel Region would come second only to California in anything? In one category it does and that’s cargo theft. According to Marco Beghetto […]
The annual North American wide Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck will take place from June 4th – 6th. The 72-hour blitz is the largest targeted enforcement program in the world with an average of 17 trucks and buses being inspected every minute in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Since beginning in 1998, […]