The Lonesome Camaraderie of the Transportation Industry
Like some of you, many a trucking day has started for me around 3:30 am, doing a pre-trip inspection in an industrial part of some city or town. Whether winter or summer, the work...
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The Dream (July 2005)
As many of our readers know, Scott Casey is the President of Military Minds, an entirely volunteer-run, international non-profit organization, that assists first responders and mil...
ELD’s and Speed Limiters – Are They Really Safe?
ELD’s and Speed Limiters have probably garnered more publicity than any other trucking issues in recent history. I am a proponent of safety and really want trucking portrayed in th...
From Zero to Hero to Zero
I'm sitting outside, sipping a piping hot cup of coffee on a dark cloudless night. As I write this, I reflect back to an article I wrote a number of years ago. That article spoke t...
You want me to go where?
Around about 1972, I was working for W.B.Trailer in Saskatoon hauling cattle, road construction equipment, and anything else that needed hauling. Asphalt Services was one of the co...
“Fuel Tanks”
I unloaded a load of machinery in Edmonton and phoned home to see If Dad had found me a load home, and he told me about this great “light” load up in Cold Lake at the airbase...
"What do you look forward to?"
Two months ago, I was already thinking about what my next article topic was going to be. I had no idea that my original thought of writing about trucker's self-isolation was going...
WE EXIST TO ASSIST
Amid the chaos created by the lies and manipulations of those who would politicize every incident and event, positive or negative, stands a group taller than most other groups and...
Distracted Driving
A few years ago, on a sunny summer Sunday, I left the company yard in Delta BC at dawn and headed east. As the old Gord Lightfoot song goes, I was, "Alberta Bound." As a par...
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