Category: Trucking News

IN PRINT — Top Trends: Issues that are reshaping Canada's biggest carriers

Meyers Transport is gone. After 90 years in -business, and decades on Today's Trucking's Top 100 list of Canada's largest for-hire carriers, the -eastern Ontario fleet shut its doors in mid-January. High capacity and aggressive rate cutting in the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) sector were blamed along with a general downturn in the region's industrial activity. “It is sad to think there won't be any trucks and trailers going up and down the road with ‘Meyers' on it anymore,” observed chairwoman Natalie Meyers, part of the fourth generation in the family business. The family's Mortrans truckload and dedicated -specialty service continues, as does Mosaic Logistics, but 190 people lost their jobs. ...Read the rest of this story

50 years in trucking

Burr Truck celebrates 50th year in business

Burr Truck opened its doors in Vestal, NY, 50 years ago. At the time, the company was basically recession-proof; there was a shortage of good drivers – even then; and the idea of a million-mile truck? Laughable.

“I can remember in the early days, about every 200,000 miles or so, you'd have to rebuild a diesel engine,” said co-founder Melvin Burr. “The idea of a million-mile truck was laughed at.”

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Gaining feedback from drivers

CarriersEdge makes driver surveys part of its online offering of driver training and management tools

CarriersEdge, providers of online safety and compliance training tools for the North American transportation industry, announced that customers now have the ability to conduct customized driver surveys on the CarriersEdge platform in order to gain insight into company performance and driver satisfaction.

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