By: David Bradley The 2017 budget will likely be tabled sometime in February or March. The focus of CTA’s submission this year is on GHG-reduction. The industry wants to transition…
EDITORIAL: 2017 Federal Budget Should Focus on Shift to Low Carbon Trucking Read more...
By David Bradley Canada is a trading nation. We have to be. Our domestic market is simply too small to sustain our standard of living. We are good at producing…
EDITORIAL: We Need Bridges, Not Walls Read more...
By: David Bradley The federal government has pledged to introduce legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana (its already available by permit for medical use) sometime in 2017. This…
EDITORIAL: Going to Pot Read more...
By: David Bradley Recently, Canada became a signatory to the Paris agreement on climate change. Signing the agreement is not the same as ratification, but that is expected to occur…
EDITORIAL: Carbon Pricing Will Be a Key to Fighting Climate Change Read more...
By David Bradley There are four bodies that report to the Canadian Council of Deputy Ministers of Transportation and Highway Safety – The Engineering and Research Support Committee, the Policy…
Editorial: The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be Read more...
News articles earlier this year about driverless trucks operating in Nevada and the Alberta oil sands under restricted conditions set off speculation about whether we’ll need truck drivers within a…
BCTA: We’ll Take Truck Drivers Over Driverless Trucks Read more...
By David Bradley When I first proposed the idea of National Trucking Week to the CTA board and the provincial associations back in 1998, I was hoping it would take…
Let’s Keep National Trucking Momentum Going! Read more...
By David Bradley Although we’re all trying to soak up the last days of summer and fall is still a bit a ways off, we already know it promises to…
Editorial: Trucking In for Busy Fall Season Read more...
By: David Bradley Last year saw the coming into force of the first ever fuel economy/GHG reduction standards for heavy trucks in North America. The Canadian rules, introduced by Environment…
EDITORIAL: Simply Duplicating US Truck GHG Standards Won’t Work for Canadian Fleets Read more...
