Yesterday morning, my cell phone rang, and I smiled when I saw that it was Dave Madill. Dave and I had talked just the week before, and I told him I was coming to see him in Kelowna as soon as we went to print for this i....

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It all started in the summer of '69 when Dad brought home an R700 that had seen better days. It was in sad shape, but he got it for less than scrap value, and we had an engine, transmission, and lots of spare parts. Dad ....

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I was running for a company out of Calgary and returning from a  trip to Edmonton. I had just passed Red Deer and was approaching the big hill when I noticed a truck pulled over. I thought I recognized it as my budd....

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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 hauled them in two 40-foot reefer vans so ....

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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 started a bit early and would shut down at 2 p....

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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....

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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....

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It was a Monday morning in October, and things were running normally around our place. It was a school day but we were also shipping a couple of Hogs off to the slaughterhouse for our use and picking up some others for l....

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It was two weeks till Christmas, as Dad walked into the Garage while I was installing the last two tires on his R Model. He stood there, watched for a moment, and asked if the truck and I were ready for a West coas....

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Now, Dad was quite a man, and being an ex-serviceman who had gone ashore on D-Day, he wasn’t scared of much, but I remember one time his face turned white with fear. We had been contacted by a company that wanted to se....

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