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April 2010 Volume 30, Issue 4 Delivering daily news to Canada’s trucking industry at www.trucknews.com
Springtime
In Ontario
AFTER A THREE-MONTH WINTER BREAK, ONTARIO’S LCV PILOT PROJECT HAS RESUMED. WE TAKE A LOOK AT LCV SPEC’ING REQUIREMENTS.
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What does the future of trucking hold? A growing addiction to oil, increased urbanization and fully intelligent transportation systems By Lou Smyrlis WINNIPEG, Man. – Predicting the shape of the future is a considerably less than perfect science, littered with predictions so off the mark they are laughable. Consider the famous assertion back in 1899 by Charles
Duell from the US patent office that “everything that can be invented has been invented.” Or the statement made in 1895 by Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, that “heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
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Nevertheless transportation companies do require a vision of the future and the various factors that could shape their business in order to strategize for future growth and protect against possible threats.And that is exactly what a panel of ex-
perts at the Future of Trucking Symposium in Winnipeg attempted to provide. The panelists – Antonio Benecchi of Roland Berger Strategic Consultants, Bill Van Amburg, senior vice-president with CALSTART and Rick Whittaker, vicepresident investments with Sustainable Development Technology Canada – looked 20 years into the future of transportation, focusing Continued on page 18
Inside This Issue... • EPA07 report card: This year’s Technology and Maintenance Council meetings included a candid discussion about how EPA07 engines have performed in the real world. Page 25
• Good on grades: The latest automatic and automated trannies boast exceptional performance on steep grades.
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• Driver health: A professional owner/operator weighs in with
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a few suggestions on how to improve the mental health of drivers in a special guest column. Page 37
• Licence renewed: Mark Dalton is asked to help a senior driver renew his Class A/Z licence.
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