Safety safety safety.

I can’t stress this enough.  Too many drivers are getting injured or killed on the highways from numerous things.  The biggest thing that I can stress is BE SEEN!!!  Wear a vest to light up the scene.  There are numerous things you can do.  I remember one time where I was dispatched to a disabled motorist on a toll road.  It was a BMW and came out as a flat tire.  I thought to myself great, this person has never changed a tire before in their entire life and will most likely sit in the car and leave me to the work.  I arrive on the location of the disablement and find that the shoulder was barely enough to have the BMW on the side of the road, let alone my 21’ ford Jerr Dan Rollback.  I saw the disabled car and turned on every light I had so other motorists could see me.  I positioned my truck behind the disabled car so that as motorists came flying by they could see all the lights much better and not slam into us.  I also pulled a page from the police and decided to angle my truck so it gave me a little more room to work, keeping me out of harms way. 

Safety is the biggest thing that we need to follow out there, but so few drivers do.  Wear the safety vest.  Turn on all your lights especially at night.  People can see those work lights and your warning lights. Put extra warning lights on the back of the truck, more than the front.  And if that does not work, flares and triangles are a great tool to keep you safe, whether they are battery powered or the old fashioned ones.

Matt Thompson

Wrecker Division Resident Tower and Jerr-Dan specialist

East Coast Truck and Trailer

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Portsmouth, VA 23701

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Trucking firm TransForce Inc. signals faith in the West

One of Canada's largest trucking companies has tripled its presence in Calgary, signalling confidence in the city's -- and Western Canada's -- future potential as a major transportation hub.
Montreal-based TransForce Inc. said Wednesday it acquired a 52-door terminal in the city which will substantially increase its subsidiary TST Overland Express's ability to move shipments into and out of the region.
Calgary is a central location for cross-border as well as interprovincial truck traffic.
"We are continuing to invest in our operations in Western Canada because of the region's economic strength and growth potential," said president Alain Bedard. "This new terminal enables TST Overland to deliver expanded services in and out of Calgary, which is a major gateway for shipments within Western Canada as well as to and from the United States."
The subsidiary, headquartered in Mississauga, Ont., has added direct line hauls between Calgary and Dallas, reducing freight handling and transit times. It boasts Canada's largest less-than-truckload network, using terminals such as Calgary to consolidate shipments between destination points.
The estimated $10-million cash acquisition is small for the multibillion-dollar company, but significant as it signals a strategic push to boost capacity in the less-than-truckload traffic in Western Canada, said RBC analyst Walter Spracklin.
"This is a vote of confidence in the future growth potential of the west," Spracklin told the Herald.
"I don't think capacity is tremendously stretched today, but certainly when you go out a few years. . . . You don't want to position yourself for next year, you want to position yourself for the long term, and that's what they've done."
The acquisition gives the company extra capacity to grow in a promising region, Spracklin said.
"It doesn't do anything to the actually level of volume," he said. "What it does is it allows that volume to come in, where as before it was extremely constrained."
TransForce made the deal with cash-strapped YRC, the largest cross-border player in Canada, which has been shedding assets to improve its financial footing.
The company, a merger between the Yellow Transportation and Roadway networks, has extensive global trucking operations, and operates in Canada under YRC Reimer.
"Given the fact that YRC is the largest cross-border player, we consider TransForce, as the No. 2 player, to be in a very enviable position of acquiring assets at what could be very distressed prices," Spracklin noted.
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NAFTA Surface Trade Jumps in April

Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 32.4% in April, the third straight jump of at least 24%, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

The year-to-year increase to $65.8 billion in trade among the North American Free Trade Agreement partners left the index 11.4% below the level for the same month in 2008....to read the full article click here

Creative trucker beats speed-limiter ticket in Canada

Persistence and creativity have paid off so far for trucker Lee Ingratta.

The one-truck owner-operator from Gravenhurst, Ontario, has captured the attention of the trucking community for the method he used to beat a ticket for an alleged violation of the provincial law that requires trucks to be equipped with speed-limiting devices.

A judge tossed Ingratta’s case out of court on June 4. Not surprisingly, provincial enforcement officials have filed an appeal...
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