January 2014 was a record month. In fact, it was a month of records. The Canadian Freight Index rose to new heights, even higher than we saw in the record-breaking December 2013. January numbers surpassed December’s—increasing 43%! The company that compiles the index, TransCore Link […]

Mounted digital dashboard video cameras are gaining popularity with truck drivers across North America. China and Russia are already using them. According to The Ontario Trucking Association, it looks like this trend isn’t going away any time soon. A recent CBC evening newscast reported that […]

According to the Canadian General Freight Index (CGFI), freight costs climbed 0.75% in November 2013 compared to October. While we want to say that this is just a one-off, one-month one-time increase, the fact is Total Freight Costs have been slowly increasing for the past […]

Export Development Canada sees 2014 as a year of promise. According to their Vice President and Chief Economist, Peter G. Hall, “if the leading indicators are really rising together in a sustainable way, it’s pointing to a new upsurge of growth.” Hall outlines four main […]

Forget driver-free cars, the future of driverless vehicles is in trucking. Automated-vehicle experts predict that the first wave of operational autonomous vehicles will be of the long-haul variety. Why is the trucking and logistics industry extremely interested in driverless technology? There’s money to make. Or […]

“Global Logistics Strategies: Delivering the Goods” tells an interesting story. Or more importantly, it forecasts an interesting future. The book explores the history of logistics and uses its dynamic past to predict our industry’s future. One which will see many more advances, according to the […]

The Harper government issued a protective direction aimed to maintain safe railway transportation in Canada. This direction states that all rail companies must share information about the transportation of dangerous goods with the municipalities they travel through in order to give local government the information […]

In late October, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) published its list of the Top 10 Trucking Industry Concerns. Last year, respondents said their number one worry was the CSA—understandably so due to concerns over the lack of crash accountability and its inability to accurately […]

Over a week ago, the US government shutdown due to a budget disagreement between the House (Republican controlled) and the Senate (Democrat controlled). While minor fluctuations in the stock market indicate that analysts believe this shutdown will be short lived, other experts are warning that […]