An old saying says, "When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys."This article concerns a professional truck driver's per-mile wage rate from 1964 to 2023 compared to the wage rate of a licensed truck mechanic. Drivers are pai....

So there I was unloaded in Trenton, Ontario, and there is almost nothing coming out of Trenton that hauls on a step-deck, but the office only said they would keep looking. I told them I would see what I could find, and t....

With Canada Day coming, I want to say that when I hear words like tyranny, communism or comments about our lack of freedom, I get my back up and immediately question the speaker's knowledge. Either they do not fully unde....

Back in the day, I drove an old Flagyl truck with a Rolls-Royce engine, hauling gravel for Kirsch construction from Middle Lake Saskatchewan. It was a very quiet truck, but its top speed was only 35 or 45 mph. It was a g....

I will not mention names in this story as some of the things that happened ended up in criminal court, and I would hate to have to defend myself from any charges. Elliot Lake was founded around 1954 as the Uranium Capito....

As I was sitting in a hospital waiting room a few weeks ago with a couple of hours to kill, I thought, I’ll buy myself a magazine to read. In the shop I found a magazine I used to buy regularly but stopped after the pr....

Coming from Vancouver, I had just crossed the border into Washington, and about five miles later, I stopped at a rest stop to use their facilities. I parked my truck and went in, and did my thing. When I came out, two gu....

When Willie Nelson sings the following, he describes exactly how I feel about trucking when everything runs smoothly. "On the road againGoin' places that I've never beenSeein' things that I may never see againAnd I can't....

It’s over - well, maybe! One is never quite sure. In the past, every province in The Great White North has seen white manna fall from the sky every month of the year. We can only hope that this will NOT be one of those....

Looking Back After Five YearsJaskirat Sidhu was the truck driver that pulled out in front of the bus carrying the Humboldt hockey team. He had taken a one-week driver training course, which was enough training in the gov....