TruckNewsTalk
News and Talk for and about the transportation industry, and related topics with driver/journalist, Jim Park and veteran broadcaster, Stan Campbell. Interviews with interesting people.
Episodes
Changes to Ontario's truck driving schools: Cleaning up the industry or just adding red tape?
Ontario's commercial driver training industry is under intense scrutiny following a scathing Auditor General's report exposing serious shortcomings in training and oversight. But will the proposed reforms actually improv...
Bureaucracy VS Driving Schools
How does the trucking industry fix entry level driving training? The short comings of our current ELT programs are well known. The bureaucratic inertia the stands in the way of a proper fix is well understood too. Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada, offers a refreshing look at the source of the problems and some ideas on how t...
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Highway traffic volumes across much of Northern Ontario have remained relatively flat or even declined over the past decade or so, but those stats mask an important change. Heavy truck traffic has increased both in absolute numbers and as a proportion of vehicles on the road.
The volume of trucks making their way across Highways 11 and 17 are bound to increase further as Canada seeks to exp...
OWNER OPERATORS – BEWARE THE TAXMAN
This is interesting, and confusing. Trucking industry people happy to learn earlier this year that the Canada Revenue Agency would finally crack down on personal service businesses known as, Driver Inc. However, we learned in July that CRA was also targeting incorporated owner-operators –...
Everyone in the trucking industry, and many members of the regular driving public have voiced their concern and anger at the growing number of poorly trained truck drivers on our road and streets. Everyone talks...but not much action. This man has a plan, but it will take time and effort, and everyone needs to be on board. His name is Don MacDonald. Listen to his plan for a professional certification. Jim Park and Stan Campbell ask...
Imagine! You're hauling 100,000 pounds in a Super B-Train, yet you're getting almost 10 mpg in fuel mileage. Impossible? Sounds like a social media fake ad? This is the real deal.
This TNT episo...
A 615-Hour Truck Driver Course for only $99!
Amazing! Could this be a national standard? Well, there is one sticky problem. It's in French. Well, mostly. More on that later.
Jim Park and I have questions. Are we not paying enough attention to Canada's second most populous province, and the second largest trucking industry province…and are they paying attention to...
CARRIER INTEGRITY
Integrity…now there's a word that seems to have lost it's value over the past several years, especially in politics, as we have all witnessed. Integrity is described as the firm adherence...
The title this weeks sound like the title of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Nope. It's real life...and death in Northern Ontario.
Let this sink in. The Highway Traffic fatality rate across the province of Ontario in 2021 was 3.94 per 100,000 people, yet the fatality rate in northern Ontario that same year was more than 99.25 per 100,000 people. That's a 135% increase! So far, the Ontario government seems to b...
Dumbing Down Driver Training
Have you ever heard the metaphor about the "crabs in a bucket"? It's based on the observation that if a single crab tries to climb out of a bucket, the group will p...
A NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING STANDARD WITH JOHN DEGROOT
Just when you thought that everything that needed to be said about the Red Seal Certification plan for trucker driver training was already said, we discovered that there is more to learn. Jim Park and Stan Campbell talk t...
Rollover Avoidance
Remember when CB radios were the main communication system between truckers? There was an entire lingo between drivers…but maybe the most popular one was "Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down." CB radios aren't as popular as they once were, but it seems that these ...
Fuel Tools You Can Use
We have come down with the crude oil blues. Thanks to Donald Trump's adventure in Iran and the subsequent closing of the Strait of Hormuz, we are feeling the pain at the pumps. Diesel is at an all-time high in Canada and the USA, and it may get worse before it gets better.
We aren't left with many options, except to moderate our driving hab...
Andy's Red Seal Questions
With all the buzz around Red Seal designation for truck drivers, even turning truck driving into a designated trade, some skepticism remains. Most industry stakeholders, including us here at Truck News Talk, believe the objectives are solid, and worth pursuing. But ...
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DRIVER ABUSE
According to the authors of a recent report on labour abuses in the Canadian trucking industry, one of the worst problems drivers face is wage theft -- which they frame as uncompensated work. Think, waiting time, inspections, layovers, etc. While the report deals primarily with ...
Driver Inc – The Epitome of Evil
Driver Inc. The epitome of evil? A scourge on the trucking industry? Or, is this the new way in the gig economy, the future of trucking employment.
Driver Inc. is a label that describes a tax-avoidance scheme in which truck drivers are treated as independent corporations rather than employees - even though they function as em...
The Red Seal in the Hot Seat
Over the past couple of months there have been any number of questions being raised about the feasibility of a Red Seal certifications for truck drivers. We know that many truck driver schools are supportive, but I know of a few that question the probability that such a project will ever happen. Many have other questions about how such a high-minded project will...
The Pilot Program
Good quality truck training schools are not doing as well as they once were, thanks to the budget quickie so-called schools. A good quality school can cost anywhere from $8,000 to $15,000. It's tough for a young guy or girl to come up with that kind of money. But this is interesting…did you know that there is no shortage of young people showing up to fork out around...
The Enforcement Province
There seems to be a lot of handwringing and anger about the scourge of bad poorly trained and sometimes fake licensed truck drivers on our highways…and the suggestions and strategies to fix the problems. There have been, as usual, plenty of disagreements about what needs to be done to make our highways safer. The one seemingly logical simple solution that obv...
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