Thinning the Herd
Every country in the world has laws. Canada is no different, we have our laws and they are for the well-being of not only ourselves but those around us. In the trucking industr...
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Winter Wonderland Trucking
I’d not had my class licence for long, and the ink was hardly dry when I got a job with a real trucking company. It was a big change from running about the streets in a three-ton v...
Make it a Holiday
I’m a paid tourist. That’s what I tell people when they ask what I do for a living. I travel around North America and get paid to do it. The scenery is never the same, and n...
Cold Load Home
Dad and I had just delivered some high-tech equipment to the Vancouver docks and slipped it into Sea cans for shipment to somewhere on the other side of the world. We had hau...
The Last Ride
With a heavy heart, I tell you that our friend and associate writer, Ed Murdoch, has passed away. For almost 14 years, Ed entertained us with stories about his life on the road. &n...
Some of the Trucks I've Seen
The company that I worked for in Saskatoon had built a winch truck that was one of a kind. They took a cab over Kenworth with a V8 Cat, then mounted a 5-speed main, a 4-speed auxil...
Loose Moose
I was in Toronto unloading on a Friday, and after I got unloaded (at about 1 p.m.), I decided to drop in on my old friends at Dillon. They had a system that on Fridays, they starte...
Old Trucker Troubles
When you’re a young, fit trucker, you never think about growing old and the problems old age will bring. All the old truckers warned you about jumping off trailers and loading...
Holidays - Then Back To The Grind.
Can you believe it? I took two and a half weeks off from the truck! I didn't look at it or worry about who was driving it. (Luckily for me, no one!) I would tell you I didn't talk...
Has anything changed?
In 1999, when Pro-Trucker Magazine was first published, truckers' main concerns were driver pay, shortage of drivers, poor driver training, employee/independent contractor classifi...
Since 2005, Driver's Choice Magazine has
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commercial transportation jobs in Canada.