Have you ever had a situation develop around you that left you scratching your head and thinking, "Did I really see what I just saw happen?" I've had more than one or two. I'll tel...

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Well, it's that time of year again. One that's supposed to bring me much joy but also much sadness. As I've written in other articles, Christmas has not been the same since my mom...

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I intended to write part 2 of my last article about being a paid tourist until my Christmas party. While ‘tis the season for merriment and joy, others and I descended into a conver...

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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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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...

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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...

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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 hau...

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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...

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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...

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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 starte...

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