Maple Leaf Motoring
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Canada
Maple Leaf Motoring: How the CN strike played on the freight market
Canadian SONAR data show that trucks helped fill the void as rail capacity left the market – and then got a nice bump as it…
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Trucking execs size up Canada’s complicated freight market
Bison Transport CFO addresses challenges in contracted freight but points to an encouraging uptick in Christmas business during Truckload Carriers Association event near Toronto.
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Ontario reportedly steps up Driver Inc enforcement
Ontario Trucking Association lauds crackdown by province’s workers’ compensation agency on companies that skirt payroll deductions by misclassifying drivers. But the OTA calls on Canada’s…
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Maple Leaf Motoring: TFI eyes more U.S. final mile acquisitions
CEO Alain Bedard says company may buy more firms in the United States as it looks to bolster underperforming logistics and final mile units and…
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Carbon tax appears safe in Canada’s photo-finish election
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has vowed to kill carbon pricing, but polling points to likelier path to power for Justin Trudeau’s weakened Liberals – given…
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Six arrested in C$7 million cargo crime spree near Toronto (with video)
Group accused of hijacking of truck with 8,500 mobile devices, stealing three commercial vehicles and attempting warehouse robberies in an unusually well-planned and brutal case…
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Maple Leaf Motoring: ‘Daily pains’ of construction logistics inspired GoFor
Founder’s frustrations with building material deliveries helped inspire Canadian final mile startup, which recently expanded into the United States.
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Maple Leaf Motoring: vHub wants to be the Airbnb of trailers
Quebec startup prepares to enter U.S. market with digital platform offering smaller carriers easy accesses to trailers, and large fleets to minimize unused assets.
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Carrier turns to augmented reality to boost driver recruitment
Challenger Motor Freight hopes the tech-centric approach will help attract millennial truckers to Ontario-based carrier
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Cargo bikes replace trucks for final mile in Montreal pilot project
Purolator among partners in a one-year test run intended to reduce commercial vehicle traffic in Montreal’s city center.
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