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Driver Inc Considered Personal Service Business and requires filing of T4As (Toronto, Oct. 22, 2018) — The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) have clarified how they will treat the practice of so-called Driver Inc. by removing any grey area as it relates to the tax and labour status of…

Kriska Transportation Group Acquires Service Freight Systems   Prescott, Ontario and Burlington Ontario, September 1, 2017 – Kriska Transportation Group (KTG) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Service Freight Systems (SFS) based in Burlington, Ontario. Service Freight Systems will continue to be led by the current management team, including Rob Ten Brinke as General…

Federal Budget Keeps Freight Transportation in Mind (March 23, 2017) — Budget 2017 provided some much-needed attention to freight transportation planning in Canada, including a new National Trade Corridors Fund to help address capacity constraints and freight bottlenecks at major ports of entry as well as improve connections between rail and highway infrastructure. The budget…

Since the publication of my second book I have had many conversations with operators who tell me their horror story. Most are even similar in nature to the many I have already heard. Threaded through my “Choosing a Trucking Company” book are accounts within the industry that newcomers should definitely hear about. The stories in…

Video in transportation is assumed by many to be a forward facing “road” camera and a camera facing the driver. With all the hype about video you would think the reasons for adding the driver facing camera combined with the forward facing camera would be clear. That is not necessarily the case. There are several…

Remember a year or so before CSA 2010? There was a lot of discussion, uncertainty and disbelief that this new program from the FMCSA would really affect Drivers, Owner Operators and fleets in Canada & the United States. Today, the program is referred to only as CSA and everybody understands and operates within its rules…

Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Women In Trucking Association (WIT) started with a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens who were focused on increasing the percentage of women employed in the trucking industry. In…

As you have likely heard, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced that the rule to require truckers to use electronic logging devices (ELDs) was published on Friday December 10, 2015. There’s a ton of misinformation out there and our aim is to equip you with the information you need to make the right…