AMTA conference: AMTA offers array of guest speakers during 2016 Leadership Conference in Banff.
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Blame technology: Murray Mullen discusses technology’s role in the decline of oil prices during Truck World.
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Western Canada’s Trucking Newspaper Since 1989
June 2016 Volume 27, Issue 6
Truxpo 2016: BCTA hosts Truxpo event; Truck West moderates women in trucking panel.
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Laying her cards on the table AMTA president talks wide-base tires, ELDs and David Bradley
A line of trucks emerge from the smoky haze while evacuating the Fort McMurray area due to an out-of-control wildfire in early May. Material republished with the express permission of: National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Holding down the Fort
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From coast to coast, the trucking industry rallies to help Fort Mac victims
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By Derek Clouthier FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – The people of Fort McMurray, Alta. who have been displaced, lost homes and much more at the hands of a destructive wildfire have been in the hearts and minds of Canadians since the Northern Alberta inferno put its crosshairs on the city in early May. Around 2,400 structures were lost due to the fire. Tragic occurrences like the Fort Mac wildfire more often than not bring out the best in people, and that’s certainly no different when it comes to the trucking industry. Members of the trucking industry from as far away as the East Coast lent their support in Fort McMurray’s time of need.
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Willy’s Trucking partnered with local organizations to set up donation stations in Peace River and Grande Prairie, Alta. to help victims of the Fort McMurray wildfire. “We have team members from Willy’s Trucking spending their days there collecting donations, loading the trucks and then driving them
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to the appropriate locations,” said Melody Mills, communications for Willy’s Trucking. “We have a couple different members on our Willy’s Trucking team who grew up in the town of Fort McMurray and are understandably upset about the welfare of their home town. Plus, being residents of Alberta, we can’t help but feel deep sympathy for everyone affected by this.” Willy’s is working with the Canadian Red Cross to drop off donations in the appropriate areas, as no one other than emergency personnel are permitted to enter the Fort McMurray region at this time. “Everybody is helping out however they can,” Mills said, “from regional managers setting aside their day to organize, to our drivers donating their time to drive and load the trucks.” Mills said Shelly Sorensen, who manages the Willy’s Peace River location, has been very hands on spreading the word about the company initiative. “We are doing what we can right now to assist,” Mills said, “and we will continue to provide Continued on page 18
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EDMONTON, Alta. – About a yearand-a-half in as executive director of the Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA), Lorraine Card is now the president of the association and becoming more and more comfortable in her role. Following the AMTA’s annual Leadership Conference, which was held in Banff April 29-30, Card sat down with Truck West to tell us how the past year has gone and what she hopes to accomplish in the future. TW: Start off by telling us what you were doing prior to coming on board with the AMTA, and how you came to accept the executive director position. Card: I came here with 20 years of bus industry experience behind me, and I worked for most of my career with Greyhound, but I also worked for Diversified Transportation. With Greyhound, I finished my career as director of safety and driver development, and then with Diversified, I was their manager of driver training and set up the driver training school here in Edmonton. I had an opportunity to move to government. There was a position available and I did get the position; I worked in Edmonton as the director of driver programs and licensing standards, and I was there for two years. I was one of those people who refused to move to Edmonton, so I still lived in Calgary, so it was a bit of a challenge commute-wise. I found that I was continuously on the road. Then there was a further opportunity within government to apply for a position in Red Deer, and that was director of carrier services. I got that and that made me closer to Calgary, but I was still refusing to make the actual move, because my family was all in Calgary. I was trying to do a daily commute, and the last winter I did it, it was a very bad winter, and thought that it was like a Russian roulette game out there on Hwy. 2 sometimes, so I thought of leaving (my job). Word got Continued on page 20
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