Posts Tagged ‘Safety Dawg’

Did you know that every company has a licence, and that the licence has a point system? Most things that drivers do on the road are recorded and can add points to the company’s licence. Unfortunately, the points added are a bad thing. If your company receives enough points, it can cause any power unit…

Drivers and safety managers – virtual training is here and it has been here for quite some time. Providers like Infinit-i and Carriers Edge have been offering truck driver, online training for a dozen years. And I suspect that recently, more and more companies have been taking advantage of using online portals. But today, I…

Happy New Year! Lately, trucking Insurance has been making the news. Or I should say the lack of trucking insurance or the lack of affordability of trucking insurance. On October 23, 2020, Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario, told insurers, for the second time, to rein in the “astronomical” rate increases. He also talked about…

COVID certainly has caused changes in both trucking and the whole world. I was thinking about the changes that are happening in trucking and transportation and I’ve been wondering how these changes affect Drivers and Owner Operators. I believe that autonomous vehicles will be one of the many changes coming at all of us! It…

Are you sick and tired of everything COVID? Yeah, I know that I am. The first thing I want to say in this article is that you truck drivers are heroes! I mean that. As the USA spikes up in cases (at least at the time that I am writing this), thousands of truck drivers…

Are you sick and tired of everything COVID? Yeah, I know that I am. The first thing I want to say in this article is that you truck drivers are heroes! I mean that. As the USA spikes up in cases (at least at the time that I am writing this), thousands of truck drivers…

The sun has risen, the fog is lifting, clouds are parting, the future looks bright. As I am writing this month’s article, the COVID-19 restrictions in North America are being lifted and some function of normalcy is returning. Gosh, trucking companies have even started hiring again. The headlines in the trucking publications have an upbeat…

How will COVID-19 affect trucking and truck drivers over the long term? This is a deep subject and before I get into it, I want to offer a huge thank you to all truck drivers and all the frontline workers! What is trucking going to look like six months from now? Or in 12 months?…