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Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, January 26, 2020
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Celadon creditors aren’t ‘screwing the Canadians,’ lawyer says

Lawyers for Celadon and former Hyndman Transport employees argue over whether the U.S. company behaved badly in Canada.
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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, January 12, 2020

Maple Leaf Motoring: Northern Pulp ‘hibernation’ vs. closure cold comfort to truckers

Atlantic Canada trucking industry braces for the fallout as Nova Scotia pulp mill owner recasts closure as a deep sleep while company scrambles to find…
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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, December 29, 2019
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Celadon wants US bankruptcy recognized in Canada

Federal investigation into dismissals at Celadon Canadian subsidiary Hyndman Transport might give Ontario court pause before embracing Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States.
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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, December 22, 2019
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Maple Leaf Motoring: Canadian Trucking Alliance revs up fight against Driver Inc.

New campaign pushes Ottawa to crack down on Canadian carriers engaging in driver misclassification scheme.
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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, December 1, 2019
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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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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, November 24, 2019

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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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, November 3, 2019
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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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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, October 27, 2019
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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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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, October 20, 2019

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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Canada

Nate Tabak, Border and North America CorrespondentSunday, October 13, 2019
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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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