Today's Headlines

• MELT, ELDs Top Priorities Announced by Garneau for Improving Highway Safety

  Monday January 21, 2019 | News Releases, Operations & Safety, Technology & Equipment

  Declaring the government was “motivated by the need for highway safety”, Transport Minister Marc Garneau and his provincial counterparts announced a national mandatory entry level training standard for commercial truck drivers by Jan. 1, 2020 and harmonized technical standards for ELDs

• Laskowski: Foreign Drivers One Piece of Driver Shortage Puzzle

  Friday January 18, 2019 | Labour/HR/Driver Shortage

  Steve Laskowski, president of the Ontario Trucking Association, recently spoke with the CBC's Conrad Collaco about why the industry wants more foreign workers. 

• Deloitte: Trust in Autonomous technologies Falling

  Friday January 18, 2019 | Technology & Equipment

  The public’s trust in autonomous vehicle technologies is waning, according to the 2019 Deloitte Global Automotive Consumer Study.

• Dec Class 8 Orders Dip, But 2018 Sets New Record

  Friday January 18, 2019 | Business Conditions, Technology & Equipment

  North American Class 8 orders in December were the lowest in more than a year, according to two research firms that track the trucking industry. But 2018's Class 8 orders still crushed a 14-year industry record for heavy-duty truck orders.