The Trucking Network - May 2015 Issue by The Trucking Network Inc

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HE TRUCKIN NETWORK May, 2015

26 Owner Operators

22 Driver Health Step it up in the final leg of the Healthy Fleet Challenge! 28 Owner Operators

24 Driver Health

The View from the South 30 Safety & Compliance

NAVEEN NAV- EDITOR nav@thetruckingnetwork.ca Shaun Cumer Copy Editor Rahul Sharma Account Executive CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Glenn Caldwell, Ray J Haight, Tony Hayton, Harmanjit Jhand, Dave Raynsford and Raj Harjika

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Dining For The D.D. (Diabetic Driver) 33 Informative Ontario Budget for 2015

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ANIMALS ON THE ROADWAY – Extreme Spring/Summer Hazards

Editorial

Though Well-Meaning, Speed Limiters Potentially Risky

he North American trucking industry has spent the better part of several years pushing back against a regulatory concept backed against the its most soundly research-informed feedback. The debate over mandatory factory-installed speed limiters on commercial trucks presents an opportunity to trust owner-operators’ experienced insights and steer clear of eroding overall highway safety. Given the reciprocity North American geography inevitably compels, the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association’s stance amid a debate that also involves the opposing American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association (OOIDA) carries implications reaching literally above and beyond the American border. The ATA have backed a well-meaning and seemingly logical enough concept: arbitrarily capping truck speeds at a reasonable level via engine components themselves will beget safer, more conservatively paced highways. We acknowledge the sensibility. Reckless speeding creates frenzied traffic tempos that leave all motorists with decreasingly little time to adapt to obstacles and vehicles around them. An all-around steadier tempo kept by vehicles of every size and class keeps every driver’s mind concentrating on traffic with roughly equal reaction cushions. One problem, as we and OOIDA see it: speed limiters, science posits, would defeat their own alleged core purpose. Factory-limiting acceleration actually plays right into a highway-regulatory concept that state governments across America have spent the prior 15 years undoing: speed differentials for cars and trucks that created dangerously uneven flows through the same streams of traffic. Forcing certain vehicles to pace themselves anywhere from 5-10 MPH below the maximum speed for the vast majority of vehicles has been statistically shown since extensive studies in the early 2000s to create more interactions between different driving paces, which have led to increases in accidents and injuries. By forcing drivers to deviate their operation from what the natural flow of traffic around them dictates, speed limiters will hinder a driver’s spontaneous and manual capacity to maintain pace with traffic and adapt at will to obstacles. We hesitate to write this regulatory pursuit We need your feedback

Send a letter to the editor and you can get published! E-mail: nav@thetruckingnetwork.ca

off to a regulatory distrust of commercial operators as a whole, we can’t help but feel at the same time that professional drivers have been unfairly underestimated in their prowess at accommodating smaller, more nimble vehicles around them. The fact is, our industry perpetually sharpens and reimagines its mechanisms for ensuring exceptional uniform standards for conscientious driving practices. Much of our industry’s years-running remarkable safety record for our drivers avoiding at-fault accidents can and should be attributed to their training to understand the unique maneuverability of commercial vehicles in relation to passenger automobiles and motorcycles. We as an industry have more than earned the regulatory benefit of a doubt. The ATA has endorsed a federally mandated 65 MPH factory-set speed limit. Meanwhile, a number of U.S. interstate and state highways have embraced 75 and even 80 MPH maximums. A 15 MPH differential begs for nothing less than dangerously staggered pacing that will result in a throwback to the more accident-prone conditions of the earlier 2000s. The last time federal regulators failed to heed industry feedback, the result was a set of hours-of-service regulations that forced commercial operators onto highways during the most accident-prone traffic flows in spite of thoroughly researched evidence that warned of precisely that outcome. There are times when bureaucracy must yield to the hands-on expertise lawmakers and regulators supposedly go out of their ways to absorb. This is a chance to prove that Government and Industry can sometimes get it right together.

Have some thoughts about the ongoing evolution of American and Canadian trucking-industry relations? We’d love to hear your feedback as stakeholding industry professionals. Please, contact us with any input on this editorial or any other story via nav@thetruckingnetwork.ca Thank you! Naveen Nav - Editor

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News

As U.S. Economy Builds Steam, Private Fleets Have Pole Position

ne Highly ranked ACT Research analyst foresees a daunting but worthwhile road ahead for private fleets in the rapidly rallying U.S. economy. ACT president and senior analyst Kenny Vieth told the National Private Truck Council at the industry group’s annual meeting in April that as consumer spending habits and disposable income continue under improved prognoses the next few years, private carriage competition will only thicken. That’s good news for the U.S. as a whole, with longer-range projections calling for this year’s expected 1.2-1.3 per cent first-quarter rise in economic growth to kick off “mostly happy” conditions into the second half of 2017 and early 2018, as Heavy Duty Trucking quoted Vieth. Meanwhile, private fleets can continue operating with the trucking industry’s most minimal driver and equipment capacity restrictions bolstered by the management successes of recent years described by Vieth as

“higher service levels, greater utilization of technology, superior safety, and viewing drivers as team members.” Though more regular, flexible home time for drivers and higher typical wages won’t immunize private fleets from the worsening North American driver shortage, lower

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average fuel costs will provide what the Ontario Trucking Association calls “a top-line offset”. Vieth concluded that the ground for-hire fleets are rapidly gaining on private fleets may make keeping the lead over competing carriers a private company’s greatest challenge.

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News

FMCSA Response To Crash Accountability: “We Don’t Know How To Manage This” T he U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) held out as long as it could against addressing trucking industry grievances with crash-accountability assessments, deeming an investigation too expensive for too little benefit, according to Fleet Owner last month. When April concluded with the FMCSA’s chief safety officer finally summing up the issue, the occasion didn’t carry the candor industry-watchers had perhaps hoped it would. “We don’t know how to manage this. That’s

what we’re looking at,” Jack Van Steenburg told the National Private Truck Council’s 2015 Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition audience on April 24. That admission gave way to Van Steenburg

announcing a late-2015 pilot program dedicated to split sleeper berth times and a timely hours-of-service restart study beginning in late April. Continued on page 47

Dave Davis Assumes Keystone Western Presidency

ith Keystone Western’s now-former president tapped for transition to a new role within the company, a new executive has joined the corporate family to fill the vacancy. As reported May 1, experienced manager Dave Davis assumed the Manitoba-based asset logistics service brand’s presidency on April 6. His predecessor, Norm Curtis, ended a tenure that began in 2001 to become Keystone’s new CEO and take up additional duties including managing the company’s rolling stock and helping Keystone develop promising new business opportunities. Davis joins the company on the back of senior management roles leading both Wildwood Transport and Canada Cartage. Curtis expects him to soundly lead Keystone toward lofty-but-admirable growth goals within the coming years. “Keystone has been growing considerably over the past 4 years,” Curtis said in a corporate statement. “The plan over the next few years is continual growth at a rate of 15-20%. I personally want to acquire new opportunities that will enhance our overall service offerings. I can’t do that in my current role, so I am pleased to have hired Dave as president to take over my day-to-day responsibilities.” www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

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News

AG: Winter Provincial Road Maintenance Improved, Resources Still Inadequately Managed

or the appreciable improvements forged by the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) alongside provincial Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca’s office, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk’s 43-page Winter Highway Maintenance special report highlights inefficient costs ripe for the trimming and management gaps due to be tightened before late 2015. Though Lysyk acknowledged successfully reduced winter maintenance costs, her office chalked declining seasonal service levels and times across the province primarily to slipping performance by contractors and diminishing availability of key snow and removal equipment. Del Duca responded to the report requested by the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts with a stance that one step forward

and two back won’t end with safer highways once snow and ice accumulate en masse. “Today’s report has confirmed what we already knew: despite the improvements we have made – the additional equipment, additional oversight and organizational changes – the current system of winter highway maintenance needs to be better,” he said. “As a ministry, we have a lot of work to do. But, so do our contractors. I will be meeting with them in person as soon as possible to determine how we can work together to improve this program and their performance.” “Strengthened oversight,” Del Duca said, has leveraged over 100 pieces of total equipment at the province’s disposal to “[enhance] www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

how it plows truck climbing and passing lanes and freeway ramps and shoulders” and noted recently enhanced budget allowances for spreaders dedicated to clearing northern Ontario’s congested urban areas and using de-icing liquids more frequently to maintain safe driving conditions throughout the season. Continued on page 47 May 2015 | The Trucking Network | 15

News

DENOUEMENT?: Court Rules Against Port Metro Vancouver Tenants, Backs Embattled Drivers PMV truckers have danced this dance before. Time may tell whether this latest imposition of government will in their favor begets equitable relations with vendors

with the interests of third parties, is to order (Port Metro Vancouver) to reconsider the applicants’ applications,” Judge Robert Barnes wrote in striking down the “procedurally

he long and repetitive dance between Port Metro Vancouver management and an embattled faction of container truck drivers may have at last reached its decisive verse. A Federal Court judge ruled late last month that PMV must revise and expand its licenseselection process governing port access for owner-operators hauling cargo in and out of the port. Though PMV retains the right to appeal the Federal Court’s decision, abiding by the Court’s verdict affirming the system’s unfairness will send Port tenants back to the drawing board to reform a system first created as a solution in 2014 to the standstill of a disruptive 28-day driver strike. Port spokesman John Parker-Jervis answered press inquiries by claiming that PMV will “review the Federal Court of Canada’s decision and consider our next steps,” according to the

Vancouver Sun. Ultimately, PMV’s ambition to avoid drastic rate-undercutting competition among drivers has likely led to the Port now having no choice but to issue new licenses to roughly 200 waiting applicants. “The only practical means of overcoming the breach of fairness in this situation without unduly interfering

unfair” process. Barnes went still another step further by awards compensatory costs to companies representing some 200 to 250 licenses failed applicants. The sum of decision amounts to a nearly complete backfire for PMV’s initial solution. The Port’s suggested selection criteria this past December set a Feb.

Carrier Transicold Honors Canadian As World’s #1 Dealer Sales Manager

ongratulations are in order for Jonathan Boucher of Saint-Laurent, Q.C.’s Nordic Refrigeration, 2014’s Carrier Transicold Dealer Sales Manager of the Year. Boucher joined almost 80 colleagues to receive corporate awards during Carrier Transicold’s annual meeting in Atlanta Georgia. The honor comes over ten years after the 20-year loyal employee joined the sales department in 2004 after valued work first in the company’s parts department and later for fives years in the service field before being named sales manager. www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

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News

Women In Trucking Association selects Jeana Hysell as May Member of the Month

Ontario Trucking Association Surveying Shipper Treatment Of Drivers

he Ontario Trucking Association’s “Operation Upgrade” feedback campaign has covered some profound ground in just a few months. What drivers across Ontario have told the provincial industry leadership organization has helped flesh out ways shipping facilities can reduce waste from their operations. A major component in that process will continue to include drivers illuminated what habits make their preferred shippers ideal partners in harassment-free freight transitions. If your staff hasn’t offered their feedback yet or been read in on the campaign’s more detailed goals, there is no better time than today. Several months into gathering and processing feedback, Operation Upgrade has begun painting a clear picture depicting the supply chain’s strongest and weakest links in responsible business practices. The scores drivers and carrier managers have an opportunity assign to consignees and shippers provide imminently valuable insight into the day-to-day tone of interactions with drivers. Continued on page 49

CAB Logistics And Infinit-i Map More Productive Path To Effective, Efficient Safety Training

AB Logistics IT director Rocky Lott was exploring avenues to streamline the sizable motor carrier’s extensive safety-training process when he joined a 2014 Infinit-i Boot Camp event in Texas. Like around 700 fellow trucking companies to date, Lott came away won over by the web-based communications platform and learning-management system (LMS). Continued on page 49 18 | The Trucking Network | May 2015

omen In Trucking Association (WIT) announces Jeana Hysell as its Member of the Month for May. Hysell is a Regional Safety Manager for CEMEX – Newline Transportation. Hysell currently resides in Phoenix, AZ and her region consists of all transport drivers west of the Mississippi River. Some of her responsibilities surround the regulations of FMCSA/DOT, OSHA/NIOSHA, and MSHA. She

Tallman Group Grows Isuzu Trucks Presence In Mississauga

anada’s widely trusted Tallman Group has bolstered its Mississauga, Ont. Tallman Truck Centre selection and services with newly minted status as an authorized full-service Isuzu dealer. The all-purpose sales and service location now offers a complete

is also responsible for accident and injury investigations, face-to-face safety meetings, safety alerts and near misses, and Drug and Alcohol programs, just to name a few. Continued on page 49 line of not only Isuzu vehicles for sale but leasing, rentals, parts and service support. Tallman Truck Centre Mississauga supports all Isuzu N-series gas and diesel low cab forward trucks. “The Tallman Group has consistently demonstrated a professional and successful approach to the medium-duty truck business,” said Isuzu Commercial Truck of Canada director of operations Andrew Craig.

ATA Demands Complete U.S. Highway Plan, End To Infrastructure’s “Devolution”

merican Trucking Association (ATA) VP of regulatory affairs Dave Osiecki and ATA head of legislative affairs Chris Spears have run out of ways to possibly make the industry organization’s one ever-burning wish any clearer: the American trucking industry is running out of patience to see U.S. lawmakers united behind highway-funding reform. American truckers have good cause for optimism, if tentatively only the cautious kind. Federal legislators in mid-April introduced the Bridge to Sustainable www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

Infrastructure bill in the U.S. House, the latest definitive effort by lawmakers to ensure a guaranteed $12-billion influx of solvency to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) through a long-term tie between inflation and a proportionate flat-rate fuel tax. The bill talks a big game, between setting up an oversight task force to manage the Highway Trust Fund and a contingency to raise fuel taxes if Congress can’t meet deadlines at the start of 2017 and 2020 to hold off shortfalls within the fund. Continued on page 49

News

April Rollover Incidents Flare Anti-Rollover Technology Call

ew North American industries, if any, remain so perpetually safety-progressive as commercial trucking. Only in our field are major accidents such a statistical minority that two similarly severe crashes in the same month could inspire an instant technological discussion among its stakeholders. To be entirely accurate, these weren’t two wrecks spaced an entire four weeks apart. Rather, Windsor, ON’s new Herb Gray Parkway roundabout was beset with two truck rollovers in two weeks at the end of April, the Windsor Star reported. An April 22 incident brought several hours’ worth of eastbound traffic at Highway 3 and Highway 401 to a standstill around 5 a.m. while tow truck operators worked to clear the wrecked semi truck and other crews removed its non-hazardous materials. Ontario Provincial Police estimated that the trailer’s load shifted suddenly while moving through the roundabout and threw the rig dangerously off-balance.

It summed up what Ontario Trucking Association president David Bradley deemed a perfect storm of dangerous conditions necessitating greater industry-wide precautions: the Ontario highway system’s growing number of roundabouts meeting with a com-

bination of a truck moving too fast for tight turns and often reckless behavior from more maneuverable surrounding motorists.

ATA Pushes U.S. Congress, FMCSA For Enhanced Traffic Enforcement, New Crash-Causality Studies

ongressional testimony from American Trucking Associations (ATA) leaders called on legislators to support highway safety through expanded highway-crash studies. In addressing the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Highway and Transit Subcommittee in late April, American Central Transport president and CEO Tom Kretsinger urged federal lawmakers to improve upon a falling fatality rate for accidents involving trucks through a deeper understanding of both what causes and successfully prevents commercial vehicle wrecks. A combined 74 per cent fewer truck accidents have ended in deaths since 1975 - a 38 per cent drop in the last decade alone, he noted. “The trucking industry is justifiably proud of its long-term safety record,” Kretsinger said. www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

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Driver Health

Step it up in the final leg of the Healthy Fleet Challenge!

By Glenn Caldwell Vice-President- Sales, Healthy Trucker

reak out the running shoes and dust off your Fitbits â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The final leg of the Healthy Fleet Challenge begins Friday, May 1st! The Healthy Fleet team is especially excited for this final challenge, as the weather will be better than ever for getting outside and logging steps. In March, a new record was set, 22 | The Trucking Network | May 2015

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Driver Health with over 130,000,000 steps taken in total! That’s over 4,000,000 steps per day as an industry. Make sure you and your company don’t miss out when Healthy Fleet aims to beat that record in May! The Healthy Fleet Challenge was developed to help fleets and allied trades create more awareness to the importance of becoming more active. Your daily steps are tracked each day with a FitBit device or by downloading the MOVES Application to iPhone or Android. Details of the challenge- https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=MgcK3Cbclg8. All fleets and allied trades in the trucking industry are invited to join and form a team for the next leg of the challenge that begins May 1st. You can join with as little as 3 individuals or have up to 50 on your team. “The more the merrier, as our goal is to help improve the overall health of as many O/O’s, Drivers and Staff in our industry as we can,” said Andrea Morley, Nutritionist and Health Coach at Healthy Trucker, “To date there are over 70 Fleets, Associations and Allied Trades that are already stepping it up!” Sheldon Hayes, Manager Safety, Compliance and Recruiting at C.A.T. commented on the challenge, “We continually look for ways to promote healthy choices for our C.A.T. team members and were very excited to be able to participate in the Healthy Fleet Challenge. The response we had to our communication about the Challenge was tremendous, with a total of 29 people having “stepped” up within a week.” Hayes continued, “One of the many great things about the Challenge is how easy it is to join, by using either the Moves smartphone app or FitBit device, and how the website has helped bring our people together by having fun monitoring each other’s steps, and engaging in lots of good-natured competition for bragging rights.” The feedback to date has been amazing on how just walking a bit more is improving the overall health of staff and drivers. “Healthy Trucker has been a positive

influence on my life. Instead of getting breakfast sandwiches in the morning, I get a banana,” said Todd Stine, America’s Road Team Captain and truck driver for Carbon Express. He continued, “Small changes like this make a big difference over time. I used to nap during my half hour break. Now I walk. Fitbit has changed my life. The Healthy Fleet challenge just gives me added motivation.” Want to sign up a team? All you need

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to do is send a copy of your logo to info@ healthyfleet.com and we’ll send you directions on how to start forming your team. Still need a bit more motivation? Check out some of the other videos on the other challenges that have already taken place http://www.healthyfleet.com/videos/ page/2/ Together we can help change the face of trucking…one step at a time!

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Driver Health

Dining For The D.D. (Diabetic Driver)

TTN Writer

ast month, The Trucking Network explored the symptoms, perils and precautionary musts of managing diabetes, including the challenges to earning a CDL while dependent on regular insulin treatments. This month, we explore a practical, realistic approach to managing hypoglycemic episodes through dietary planning when travel needs don’t permit ideal dining choices. The good news being, regulating type 2 diabetes no longer demands nearly the significant workplace or lifestyle adjustments drivers a decade or more ago would have faced. As the United States and Canada have come to grips with further and further reaching obesity epidemics over the past ten years, convenience stores, truck stops and other eateries have responded in 24 | The Trucking Network | May 2015

kind. Truckers who ruled the roads a decade ago hadn’t a fraction the widespread availability of more health-conscious snacks and beverage, nor the understanding of the havoc a once-necessarily unbalanced diet could wreak on their lives as they aged into retirement. We at The Trucking Network want nothing less than for all of our fellow drivers to enjoy their families in retirement with the soundest health possible. With that in mind, we hope this sample meal plan designed to accommodate less-than-ideal blood sugar inspires some revamped pre-haul shopping lists and an appreciation the trucker’s food pyramid no longer consists of equal parts grease and caffeine. BREAKFAST Who wants to bet we need only a single www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

phrase to make this every mother’s favorite trucking article this month? Breakfast is, without a doubt, the most important meal of the day. Generally speaking, any morning meal at all is the most important you’ll eat all day. Nope, no pandering here. Sleep slows the body’s metabolism dramatically. Eating something shortly after waking, and doing so routinely, kickstarts the body into its active calorie-burning mode. Starving it not only keeps the body and the brain inadequately fueled, but can send it into a starvation “survival” mode in which it begins hoarding calories as fat to leach energy from later. This is no small reason why so many fastfood stops earn a killing from their respective breakfast menus. Many have begun

Driver Health fortifying their options with healthier lowfat options such as yogurt parfaits breakfast sandwiches that swap out whole-egg patties for leaner, high-protein egg white substitutes, whole-grain breads and leaner meats topped with lower-fat cheeses. Even given those welcome accommodations, there are still healthier choices for diabetics. Even many leaner breakfast sandwiches are still going to pack more calories, carbohydrates and grease than unstable blood sugar needs. For the ideal options, hit up a grocer or even convenience store for these options which can be prepared in almost any truck cab or motel room with as little added as some piping-hot water. • FRUIT - Almost any grocery store will carry not only individual-sized canned fruit in juice (not syrup) and dried raisins, cranberries, etc., but graband-go portions of sliced fresh fruit such as apples, bananas, oranges, pears and peaches. • OATMEAL - Anymore, many stores will carry singleserving cups of oatmeal that heat up ready to eat with some hot water - check the Bunn station at any gas station - and taste great with some dried fruit added. • NUTS - Between nuts and fruit, the variety is virtually endless. If unsalted nuts such as walnuts, pecans, almonds, peanuts or mixes aren’t your speed, peanut or almond butter spread over some whole-grain bread, a bagel or even some crackers fills you with a lasting combination of protein and fat. LUNCH Breakfast starts any day with by kick-starting the metabolism and keeping it in calorie-burning mode fueled with just the right nutritionally balanced foods. Unfortunately, skipping meals will sabotage that fifth-gear start nearly as quickly. That makes lunch a crucial point in the day itself. If you’ve eaten a healthy, balanced breakfast, you should have a more moderate and easily satisfied appetite by the afternoon. The key to any meal is to strike a happy medium - eat enough to adequately fill

your tank with clean-burning energy, but not so much that digestion spikes your blood sugar and consumes energy your body needs to stay sharp and alert. Quality can’t fall by the wayside in quantity’s name, either. Sugary drinks such as certain teas, “ades” and soft drinks supply empty calories and never truly sate your body. The same goes for extremely starchy carbs and foods high in fat, grease, and sugar. • Stick to drinking WATER, LOW-FAT MILK or no more than ½ cup of 100%

for the rest of your evening. Habitual midnight snacking messes with the body’s biological clock that helps set its metabolism’s tempo, which can lead to irregular, unexpectedly spiked blood sugar. Eat a heartybut-balanced balanced meal here to sate your body before bed and consume enough calories that you won’t go to sleep still feeling peckish and wake up craving a snack. Since this is the meal that most people usually choose to properly cook, let’s take a look at some healthier fare from fast-food

FRUIT JUICE to keep insulin and blood sugar levels in check. • FRUIT - See above for the most convenient options. • 100% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, PITAS AND/OR WRAPS • LEAN PROTEIN - For the energy with the most bank for its buck, stick with canned tuna, reduced-sodium canned beans, unsalted nuts or nut mixes. Where you can find it, pick up lean deli meats such as turkey, chicken or roast beef. Rotisserie chicken and hard-boiled eggs are also great, but not always practical choices. • DAIRY - Non-fat yogurt or Greek yogurt and cottage cheese are delicious, satisfying choices to pay with nonfat or 1% milk. DINNER So here we are at the end of the day and the meal over which we unwind and let the day fade away. As it happens, this one has implications

chains and restaurants found along most highways to close out the day: • KFC GRILLED DOUBLE DOWN - The grilled version of KFC’s weird chickeninstead-of-bread sandwich just happens to also have only 3 grams of carbs. • McDONALD’S SALADS - Stick with the creamy Caesar or balsamic vinaigrette dressings, each only 4 grams of carbs per serving, to keep the side salad under 10 grams of total carbs. The full-size Caesar without chicken packs only 7 grams of carbs itself, though a grilled chicken version adds another 30 grams. • SUBWAY SALADS - Just as good, Subway’s salads carry only around 10 grams of carbs themselves. BURGER KING FRESH APPLE FRIES Pair these tasty fruit slices with a bunless burger or Tendergrill Chicken Salad, each under 8 grams of carbs, as long as you hold the croutons.

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Owner Operators

By Ray J Haight Safe driving! CEO, Transrep Inc. rhaight@transrep.ca

ver the past number of years I have offered advice on how Owner Operators can make themselves more profitable and hopefully some of you have listened and derived benefit from my writings. What I want to explain in this article is how to protect the small business that you have worked so hard to build. As with most small businesses, the owner is also the company’s only employee and if something should happen to that person the entire company is at risk, along with any personal assets that might be owned or co-owned by them, why would personnel assets be on the line? This is an easy question to answer but could end up being a hard pill to swallow if you ever find yourself in this situation after an accident. If you have a bank loan on your truck, chances are the financial institution you used, asked for (or demanded) a personal guarantee as a prerequisite for the loan. By signing that document you gave the bank the authority to force you to sell any personal assets that you might own to satisfy the balance of the loan should you default for any reason. Have an accident with inadequate insurance? Doesn’t matter, make the payments - pay the loan. Got sick? Had a Heart 26 | The Trucking Network | May 2015

Attack? Doesn’t matter, make the payments - pay the loan. You can see where I’m going with this. I know these scenarios are not pleasant topics, but I felt the need to get them on paper - because I have seen it happen (too many times). One of my favourite Owner Operators when I was running a carrier had a minor heart attack but was still going to be out of commission for at least 6 months, this guy was a great operator, clean equipment, worked hard, everyone liked him and then bang he had a heart attack. I remember going up to the hospital and seeing him, which is where I learned that he had no insurance for such an event and no nest egg at all. He and his wife had a house with a mortgage and a small amount of money in RRSP’s, that’s it! Of course you can find a driver and put them in your truck while you’re convalescing but I must tell you that this is a risky path to take, you better be sure the person knows their stuff and doesn’t cause more problems than they solve. The other thing to consider is that you might be able to make your truck payment, but of course any income that you might have used to satisfy your needs at home will now go directly to the driver, so what now? The correct thing to do, as usual, is to do your homework and make sure that you have all (or most) of these scenarios covered with insurance. I have seen how things should work when the proper insurance is purchased and problems happen and I’ve seen the other side. One crucial product to have is WSIB/WCB Alternative Insurance; this product is a no-brainer for Carriers that contract with Owner Operators. This type of coverage provides longterm protection for On and Off the Job Injuries (unlike WSIB, which only covers On the Job situations), and is usually packaged with comprehensive Out of Province Medical Insurance (to cover Emergency Medical Expenses when travelling across

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Owner Operators the border). This Insurance should be a mandatory requirement at Carriers. Further, The sales rep should make sure each Owner Operator is aware of the scenarios listed above, as well as other possibilities, for instance, the negative effect on cash flow in the event of an accident (Deductible Buy down Coverage), the impact of a Cancer Diagnosis (Critical Illness and Sickness Coverage), or the getting stuck on some lonely highway in the middle of the night (Truck side Emergency Road Service). I hate to sound like a commercial, but I wouldn’t write it if I didn’t believe in it. Proper insurance protection is a necessary component of any sound business; unfortunately too many Owner Operators lack proper coverage and only find that out after it’s too late. To reinforce my point, here are a couple real world scenarios that NAL Insurance Company has passed on to me, one with a good outcome, and one with a not-sogood outcome. The first one deals with a 47-year-old driver from the Windsor area. During a driver meeting, this gentleman was vehement that he didn’t need WSIB Alternative Coverage or Critical Illness Protection. His comment was “all insurance companies are jokes, they will gladly take your money, but when it comes time to claim they throw up as many road blocks as possible”. Luckily, the fleet he drove for made the coverage mandatory. Further, after the NAL rep got a chance to meet him one on one, he decided to increase his Critical Illness protection to $50,000. The decision turned out to be very timely, because 13 months later he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Luckily, they caught the cancer in time; he has since recovered fully, but did admit that if it wasn’t for the $50,000 Critical Illness settlement he may have lost everything. This brings me to the not-so-good story. After a two-hour sit down with a NAL rep, an Owner Operator from rural Ontario made the unfortunate decision to “pass” on valuable Disability coverage. His premise was “I own my truck out right, no loan. If something happens,

I’ll just sell my truck and live on the proceeds until I recover”. Unfortunately, too many drivers have similar opinions. The reality is that equity in a depreciable asset is certainly not the foundation of a solid financial plan, especially in a distressed situation. Unfortunately, within 12 months, this driver was tarping down his load fell from the deck and broke his arm and collarbone. The results, Due to the nature of the injury, he required two

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surgeries and was off for an entire year. The truck was long gone (sold for less than half what he thought it was worth), and a house in foreclosure proceedings. This could have all been avoided with a little per-planning, food for thought (and motivation to get you financial house in order). Safe Trucking Rjh

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Owner Operators

The View from the South

Tony Hayton V.P. Airtab Global Sales at Worldcrest Management Inc. in Ottawa, 613-724-9094, antony_hayton@yahoo.com

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write this article from a different perspective. Although I live in Ottawa, today I have flown to Washington D.C. to attend some meetings. The first thing you realize when you get here is that, Americans are not thinking “Canadian”, they are only thinking “American” and trust me, there’s a lot for them to think about. Culture here is definitely different than it is back home in the “Great White North”, violence in the streets of Baltimore is what is making the news here today. Every day though it is something different, racial issues, or international affairs and yes the economy too. That is what matters most to we Canadians, because the U.S. is the economic dog that wags our Canadian trade dollar tail. Just as in Canada, the U.S. faces a Federal election very soon. Our’s most likely in October, whereas the U.S. Presidential election is 18 months away, the campaigning has already begun. The telling tale here is that for the most part the U.S. economy, is strong and healthy. The U.S. dollar has risen against most, if not all other currencies in the last 12 months. It is up in value by 20%, due to uncertainty and lower prices in the global www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

oil market and the improving health of the U.S. economy. Of note US exports to other countries have become more expensive and imported goods have become less expensive in the U.S. The United States and Canada have the largest trade relationship in the world. In 2012, U.S. merchandise trade with Canada consisted of US$324.2 billion in imports and US$292.4 billion in exports. The trade relationship between the two countries crosses all industries and is vital to both nations; success as each country is the largest trade partner of the other. The trade across Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan along is equal to all the trade between the United States and Japan. We as Canadian business operators have been given a golden opportunity to flourish with such a powerful economic engine churning away beside us. Our job is to devise ways in which to most benefit from this seamless economic bond. The bottom line is that we need the U.S. to fuel our economy more than they need us. We send more goods into the U.S. than we take in return. That advantage most likely grows as the Canadian

Owner Operators dollar slips in value to the US because it makes Canadian exports into the U.S. less expensive. Since the vast majority of this trade travels by road, we in the trucking industry are in the unique position to gain the most by it. Even thought trucking cannot establish the markets and the products that are traded back and forth, we can optimize the opportunity to benefit from the actual logistics and physicality of this massive ongoing trade engine. In a previous article John Costanzo, president of Purolator International says “that many U.S. businesses do not view Canada as a separate market, they regard Canada as the 51st state and that is a mistake.” That mistake could prove costly because the inefficiencies of shipping large volumes to and from Canada through carriers that lack a significant Canadian presence can add considerable expense. “U.S. companies may not realize how much they are paying, especially if they move substantial volumes.” As an example we have seen a number of U.S. based transport companies enter into the Canadian marketplace. This trend may continue and force Canadian carriers to compete with larger American firms in a fight for the trade dollar. Size may be an advantage for them in some ways, but lack of knowledge and infrastructure in Canada may be seen as one of their disadvantages. One such U.S. company that has entered into Canada is NFI. NFI is a conglomeration of transportationrelated companies offering dedicated truckload, logistics, and warehousing services across the United States and Canada. The company was started in 1932 as National Hauling in Vineland, N.J., with one dump truck, and has grown to one of the largest privately held third-party logistics providers in North America. NFI Canada’s president Robert Rusnov, says the “U.S. companies now see cross-border trade with Canada

as a natural hedge on their business as a whole.” Due in large part to fluctuations in the economies of both countries. When the U.S. economy faltered a couple of years ago, the Canadian economy remained strong. It made sense for U.S. companies to “follow the money.” NFI Canada focuses on global transportation and logistics, specializing in air and ocean transport, and intermodal and truck brokerage services across North America.

working to provided seamless transportation of goods in an era of heightened security. The other key issue is the fluctuation in the rates of both dollars. That changes every single day and that is where profit can turn into loss. Fixing your corporate strategy to one dollar may very well be the key to success. For example, we at Airtabs, which is a product that is sold globally, yet manufactured in Canada, sell our product in U.S.$. What this does is give us the security of having a

NFI Canada was formed in 2010 when NFI acquired Canadian third-party logistics firm IPD Global, where Rusnov was president. NFI offers an array of supply chain services to help businesses manage, grow, and succeed in today’s marketplace. Its’ acquisition of IPD has provided current and new NFI customers with even greater access to reliable and efficient shipping routes, dedicated trucking, warehousing and distribution, and transportation management in both the United States and Canada. “While the company has opened up a whole new suite of services, the economic climate in which the they are offered has changed,” Rusnov says. “The Canadian economy is roughly one-tenth the size of the U.S. economy he explains, but the dynamics are constantly changing. Border security issues are always very key and both countries are

standardized price for all our clients around the world, which is tagged to the key currency of global business. When the Canadian dollar goes up we lose on the exchange, but the security of the U.S.$ in terms of global relationships with our clients helps us do business internationally. The bottom line is that for your business, you may need to make certain hedges not only in pricing against constant currency fluctuations but also against all the other fluctuations going on in the world today. The view from here in the south reminds us that our playing field is global. However, we will make it or break it in our business, in just how we maximize the great potential that U.S./Canada trade presents us. We have the world’s greatest marketplace at our doorstep and the world’s greatest trade zone in our hands.

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Safety & Compliance

ANIMALS ON THE ROADWAY – Extreme Spring/Summer Hazards

By Dave Raynsford Director Safety & Compliance QuikX Transportation

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opefully winter becomes a distant memory soon! Everyone has had enough of the cold weather and if you drive for a living you would probably agree, the last two years have been extremely challenging even for the well-seasoned commercial vehicle operator. And now we can (hopefully) look forward to better weather and improved road conditions. We must remember however, along with the improved conditions will come other travelling challenges! Let’s take a moment to talk about one of the major risks to motorists travelling Canadian highways. In Canada, more than 38,000 plus collisions with animals are reported yearly. There are some thirty human fatalities as a result of www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

these accidents. The Ontario northland is particularly famous for wildlife sightings as are the areas of northern Quebec, the Maritimes, and British Columbia. Many miles of our major routes utilized by commercial traffic in our country run through remote wilderness sections and are subject to the hazards presented by animals entering the roadway. At any time of the year it’s possible to see moose, bear or deer (to mention a few species) hanging around close to the remote routes. Elk are also known to frequent roads particularly in the northern Canadian regions. Spring and early summer are very active times for the larger species of animals which are often driven from the protection of the woods by black flies and mosquitoes.

Safety & Compliance As drivers, we must be prepared for their eventual and increasing presence on our highways. Once faced with the unknown such as moving vehicles, these animals can run in any direction. This unpredictability results in the animal being at risk as well as becoming a major hazard for motorists. Drivers who see an animal on or near the roadway must recognize instinctively, the animal WILL move! And since the direction of the animal movement is uncertain, slowing the vehicle and being prepared is extremely important! Drivers must understand, the speed of the vehicle has a lot to do with the collision becoming a reality or not. For example, if you are maintaining the 90 kilometers per hour speed limit in northern Ontario, statistics prove the chances of an animal collision are up to fifty per cent less than moving at ten or fifteen kilometers per hour over the speed limit! The proper speed constitutes a greater slowing and stopping capability. At night, an improved risk factor and greater chance of better reaction time is achieved when driving within the scope of the vehicle headlights. This can be all be accomplished with appropriate speed and within the speed limits. Sometimes depending on circumstance, the animal will still attempt to bolt in front of the moving vehicle. Moose in particular seem to want to run around the front of the unit, even when it means running alongside it until it feels it can outrun the intruder. Bear in mind (no pun intended), the “cow” moose can weigh up to 450 kilograms and the “bull” moose can weigh upward of 550 kilograms! These weights coupled with the forward momentum of the animal can lead to some severely destructive impacts! In the case of smaller passenger cars

the moose usually carries over the hood and into the roof line making them very dangerous to the occupants. In larger commercial units, the impact can lead to severe damage to cooling systems, hoods, fenders, lights or even fuel tanks. They can also severely damage front ends and adversely affect steering components which may lead to a loss of vehicle control. Many people have been injured as a result of collision with animals and many such collisions have destroyed very large pieces of equipment. Drivers must always maintain proper control of their vehicle. If an animal is on the roadway the best possible defense for you as a driver is to maintain your controlling position in traffic including placement in your lane of travel. Of course, you may slow the vehicle in a controlled manner but do so without locking the wheels! Do not try to guess the direction the animal will pursue and do not try to out steer the animal! In most cases of attempting to out-manouver a moose or a deer, the vehicle operator loses! The proper steps to avoiding or controlling a possible collision with an animal are;

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— constantly scan the roadside and look well ahead for signs of animals — maintain the posted speed limit or the speed appropriate to weather conditions (visibility is reduced in rain and fog as well as snow) — if you do see an animal on the roadway, slow by braking properly, do not lock the wheels — avoid any abrupt maneuver of the vehicle — maintain your lane of travel It is pretty much a guarantee that animals will always be at risk with motorists, particularly moose and deer which are prevalent in many parts of North America. It is up to each and every vehicle operator to be prepared for these animals to appear in their line of travel. If and when they do, ensure you maintain control of your vehicle! Huge physical damage can occur from an animal hit, severe injury or death to motorists is possible while the animals suffer greatly as well. Keep your senses tuned to the task of driving and arrive at your destination safely!

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Informative

Ontario Budget for 2015

What has the budget in store for transportation Industry Harmanjit Jhand Heavy Duty Truck Sales

rom ‘Touting’ this budget as a milestone for Ontarians and being under the largest amount of debt in the history of Ontario, we have heard it all in the last few days since the budget has been tabled in the Provincial Parliament. The budget does highlight major infrastructure spending on transit system to get GTA out of gridlock in the rush hours. This will be a welcome news for transportation industry. The estimated losses are in billions for the transportation industry because of the GTA gridlock The need for transit upgradation has been ever greater than before with booming population over the last two decades and ever growing concern about global warming, decreasing carbon footprint and so on. This budget has hit hard on the points that matter. The health care and education has been the two largest spending sectors for Ontario Liberals with over 50 percent spending going towards them. Even then there has been sharp criticism of them for spending cuts to the Health and Education sector. Some industry experts have long lobbied for independent health sector so that Ontarians pick and choose what health services they like and pay for only the services that they want, also semi privatizing our hospitals. But, then what happens with all the senior citizens who have helped invested in the health care system that we have now. The debate goes on our health system and it could be years until a privatization can be implemented or may not even happen in the near future. Much of the Liberals’ plan involves holding the line on funding for hospitals, school boards and other sectors – effectively compelling them to cut costs or find efficiencies. Hospitals have already shed registered-nurse jobs, while social agencies have cut their hours or made staff take unpaid days off. Some cities, grappling with the province’s rejigging of their funding formula, have cut back on daycares and other services. The government is playing hardball with the unions, demanding they accept “net zero” deals, in which any pay increases are offset by cuts elsewhere. The province has had some success, negotiating a contract that froze the pay of some civil servants for two years. It also imposed a cut to doctors’ fees this year, over the objections of the Ontario Medical Association. Average growth of program spending from now through 2017/18

will be 0.9%, the year the province plans to balance the budget. It’s the lowest program spending growth in Canada, and below inflation. So it amounts to a real cut to services. “Ontario has now been able to cut its spending, I should say, to improve its savings targets throughout,” Finance Minister Charles Sousa The budget outlines spending $15 billion on LRT in Waterloo Region and Ottawa Region, so not just GTA( which is getting $16 billion in transit funding), the South Western Ontario and capital region boost will be a big boost to overall economy of Ontario. The Transportation Industry will be directly benefitted with Skill Training Program. The Transportation Industry needs a lot of investment for skill development as it will be a driving force in Ontario’s economy. The one thing that has got everyone on the calculation charts is where the province is going to fund all the projects.The province is under record deficit since 2007 and with the outlook looking not very either the questions are being raised on how the province will pay for the projects. Some expert economist have put the ever growing deficits to be around $200 billion mark by the end of the term of this Liberal government. Whatever, the outcome might be the budget is tabled and will be passed as Liberals are in majority. So for all your questions make sure you call the office of your local MPP and even better ask the Member parliament who will be coming to your door this fall asking for re-election.

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Punjabi News

Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna’s Message To Youth In JFK’s Words! Young men! “May I know if you are doing your present job sincerely as a patriot”? “If your reply is ‘yes,’ I feel Motherland should be proud of you. But if not, you are letting down yourself and your motherland both. I call upon you to live like self-respecting, responsible citizens of a free country.” JFK gave a similar message at his victory speech when he said, “Ask Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country”. This message is more relevant to the youth today than it was then in the times of JFK and Baba Bhakna before him, especially when this terrible debate is going to enrage and engage the Indian nation which is fuelled by the BBC documentary, “India’s Daughter” which covers the tragedy of 2012. It is a second national tragedy and disgrace which brought a great shame to John F Kennedy the capital Delhi second only to the Sikh genocide of 1984 in modern times. One’s heart naturally goes to all the affected families. With sincere condolences to Jyoti’s family, debating Delhi Rape Case, she is a victim for some and a dear Bitea (daughter) Jyoti – light and soul for mothers and fathers anywhere else for others. However Baba Bhakna 2nd from Right in shackles at painful for all famiAmritsar Railway Station lies directly affected and how so shameful may be for the Indian nation to debate, it must be debated fully and openly to get at the bottom and the root cause of this retarded mindset. The debate must generate more light than heat. And the lessons learnt ought to go to the drawing board for the builder – architects of the nation as well as to the elementary school education system where it all begins. Returning to Baba Bhakna’s message: In his sunset days and at his fag end, with a lot of persuasion by others, Baba Ji wrote a number of booklets namely, “Dukh” (Anguish), “Jeevan Kartav,” (Path of Duty), his autobiography, “Jeewan Sangram,” compiled by Prof. Malwinder 40 | The Trucking Network | May 2015

Jeet Singh Waraich as well as “Meri Aap-Beeti” most recently compiled by Amarjit Chandan. I knew Baba Ji very closely as a relative and a family member, a husband (His wife Mata Bishen Kaur was the elder sister of my grandfather Baba Jeon Singh of Jandiala – Lahore). I knew him as a farmer, an educationalist and an art lover who loved educating children especially the girl child. He greatly influenced my life as I watched him walking the talk at the grass root level during my formative years. I attended the same elementary primary school which he attended 70 or so years ago and was still a primary school. I matriculated in 1956 from the Co-educational Janta High Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna School Bhakna built by him on his own donated land in 1952 in that part of the border area of Wagah-Pakistan. One of these days, I will also write about covering my share of Baba Ji’s life since I lived with him in Bhakna from the age of 7 to 21years old. I came to Bhakna after the partition in 1947 when my parents from my ancestral village of Jandiala now in Pakistan came and lived in Bhakna till 1961. I graduated from Khalsa College Amritsar in 1961 and left Bhakna to take up my first job as Horticultural Inspector at Pinjore Gardens. Meanwhile I take pleasure in sharing Prof. Malwinder Jeet Singh Waraich’s compiled book “Jeevan Sangram” with my online readers. On the request of Prem Kumar Chumber, chief editor weekly newspaper, “Desh Doaba, the book “Jeevan Sangram” written in Gurmukhi is being published in installments. Please read on:

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News

Indian-origin student named Sahil Doshi America’s Top Young Scientist WASHINGTON: Sahil Doshi, a 14-year-old Indian-American student, has won the 2014 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for his innovative, eco-friendly battery design that could help lower harmful greenhouse gases. A ninth grader from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Doshi was awarded the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist”, $25,000 and a student adventure trip to a destination such as Costa Rica, according to a media release. His prototype — the PolluCell — converts carbon dioxide into electricity, ingeniously helping to reduce the Earth’s carbon footprint while offering power for household uses and developing nations. Over the past three months, Doshi and nine other finalists had the exclusive opportunity to work directly with a 3M scientist as

they created their personal innovations as part of a summer mentorship programme. During a live competition at the 3M Innovation Centre in St. Paul, Minnesotta, last week the finalists shared their completed innovations with a panel of distinguished

judges. “The Young Scientist Challenge at its core celebrates the wonder of science and students who embrace innovation and creativity,” said Bill Goodwyn, president and CEO of Discovery Education. “We are honoured to stand alongside 3M in congratulating Sahil and the rest of this year’s finalists for their dedication and innovative thinking,” he said. Jai Kumar, a seventh grader from South Riding, Virginia came third for his innovative, window-mounted air purification system that prevents harmful pollutants from entering the home. He received a $1,000 prize and a student adventure trip to a destination such as Costa Rica. The fifth-placed Mythri Ambatipudi, a ninth grader from San Jose, California received a $1,000 prize and a $500 gift card from Discovery Experiences.

Khalsa Day Takes Over the Downtown Core

his year’s Khalsa Day celebrations drew a crowd that included voteseeking politicians and young Sikhs trying to change the menu. Sikhs from across Southern Ontario gathered downtown on Sunday to celebrate the twin holidays of Vaisakhi and Khalsa Day. The celebrations included a parade (called a Nagar Kirtan) from the CNE to Nathan Phillips Square, as well as a massive feast (in the square) with food donated by Sikh places of worship across the province. Vaisakhi is a harvest festival, celebrated by people of all faiths across the northern half of the Indian subcontinent. It was on Vaisakhi in 1699 that the final guru of Sikhism, Guru Gobind Singh, revealed the Khalsa, or code of conduct, for practicing Sikhs. Khalsa Day marks the anniversary of that event. The crowd assembled at Nathan Phillips Square listened to speeches from members of the local Sikh community, as well as politicians of all stripes. Liberals, Tories, and New Democrats all

thanked the Sikhs for their contributions to Canadian culture, while trying to win Sikh support. “My favourite thing in the parade was the float that said ‘Sikh Values are Canadian Values,’” said Premier Kathleen Wynne. “We share a value system of compassion, caring for each other, and creating a fair www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

society, and that is what our government is working with you to do.” Provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath and provincial Conservative leader Tim Hudak said basically the same thing. Two federal leaders— the NDP’s Thomas Mulcair and the Liberal party’s Justin Trudeau—were also on hand for the celebrations. May 2015 | The Trucking Network | 41

Technology

Digital Detox –

What Is a Digital Detox?

By Raj Harjika

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on’t worry, you don’t have to put your digital device like your phone, ipad, latop in water. A digital detox is switching off all your electronic devices and spending a period of time without using any of them. This includes phones, laptops, tablets, desktop computers, game consoles, televisions, etc. It is as simple as you can’t just avoid it, it relates to every aspect of our life be it personal, professional, social and your life seems to be revolving around it. Sometimes it feels like we can’t live or survive without Digital world. Everywhere you go, people are on their cell phones, tablets, laptops or any other digital device. Technology is a

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great tool for keeping connected and gain state-of-the-art knowledge about just anything, however it becomes a problem if it prevents you from being present in your real life. Not to mention the fact that consuming too much information is like eating empty calories without proper nutrients in your daily life. Your brain gets overloaded, flabbergasted and needs unplugged time the same way you need to “delete history” on your web browser. This is true that not everyone can totally unplug from technology as it is critical for work and keeping in contact with family and friends. And at the same time not everyone has the opportunity to attend

Technology digital detox retreats like Camp Grounded. However, we could make simple alterations in our daily habits and ritual by including regular breaks from our digital life. Following are top five simplest ways to digitally detox daily: 1. Make the commitment. This is simply deciding that unplugged time is as much a priority habit as brushing your teeth or for some may be having a cup of tea and that you’ll show up and follow it no matter what. 2. See the benefits. More analog time means you will have less stress, calmer and freer mind space. You’ll also be more present with those who you interact with every day. 3. Schedule unplugged time. How long you unplug can be as little as a 5 minutes to couple of hours a day. Once you decide how long, put it on the calendar so it’s for real. If it’s not on your calendar, it’s not likely to happen. If this feels like it’s too much to handle? Start off with five minutes a day and as it becomes easier, add more time as you see fit. You can also distribute the unplugged time over the period of 24 hours, such completely unplugging yourself while going to bed 4. Decide on a non-digital activity. What can you do when you’re not checking your digital device? The choices are endless. Here are a few ideas to get you started. • Write your morning pages. It’s a great practice for clearing the mind. Some of the most successful world leaders use this habit. • Spend time in nature. You could walk or hike outside. • Practice yoga or meditate. This will help you be more aware of your breathing and help you stay present. • Read a paperback or hardback book. Trench the Kindle, Nook or iPad and go the old school route. • Converse with family, friends & workplace in person • Get your body moving with a workout? This could be a trip to the gym or an outdoor run or bike ride. • Shop at the farmer’s market and cook a meal from scratch. Sit down and enjoy time with family and friends without technology. 5. Review how you feel regularly. Take a

moment to see how you feel after each activity. Do you feel more refreshed and less stressed? With these five steps, you’re on your way to making unplugged time a part of your daily routine. Doing a digital detox daily will keep you nourished, relaxed and more productive so you could give your best at work and life. It also will help you to achieve work life balance.

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If you are doing a long detox, be sure to tell family, work place and friends that you will be unavailable for given time frame of a day. If you do decide to make the digital detox part of your daily life you will always have time to do activities which you never able to do so during your hook up with digital work. So try it out it’s surely worth it… Good luck with Digital Detoxification.

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Technology

DIGITAL DRIVE -

Monthly Highlights In Trucking Tech

TTN Writer

elcome back to DIGITAL DRIVE, our monthly survey of the trucking industry’s most promising technical innovations and news. • Australian innovators Seeing Machines debut fatigue-monitoring technology for drivers Australian development house Seeing Machines culminated a reported 12 years of research and eight years of testing in April 44 | The Trucking Network | May 2015

at Cincinnati’s 2015 Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition from the National Private Truck Council. Over a decade after introducing the technology in Australia, the company has let North American carriers in on a diligent system that employs eye-motion detection technology in concert with in-cab warnings and dashboard reporting to keep an eye on distracted, drowsy and fatigued drivers. Seeing Machines general manager-fleet support Erica Collins explained that the www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

case-study partnerships with recognized industrial companies such as Caterpillar and Takata sharpened a system whose eye and facial movement sensors assess the exhaustion frequent eyelid closures or looking to the side or down often indicates. Through audible in-cab warnings and reporting from dashboard hardware, the truck then alerts a central Tucson, Ariz. call center. Fleet management then receives its own warning from the call center within two minutes of the alert.

Technology From there, the fleet can then order their driver off the road to rest and freshen up until he or she is no longer dangerously tired. Since the system’s commercial release, reports of fatigued and distracted driving have fallen 71 per cent among users of the 4,000plus units shipped. • Volvo Announces Partnership With “Digital Convoy” Pioneers Peloton Given Volvo’s most noted Information Age crusade on a path to change the trucking industry within the next decade, shaking hands with “digital convoy” vehicle networking pioneers Peloton should seem more or less inevitable. Peloton announced in late April that Volvo Group Venture Capital have chosen to invest immediately in the the vehicle-to-vehicle networking developers based, in no small part on the potential progressive safety implications and estimated 4 to 10 per cent fuel-consumption savings believed possible through Peloton electronical platooning system’s safety, efficiency and analytic platforms. First previewed in detail nearly a year ago, Peloton’s remote convoy coordination network adapts the steering, braking and acceleration for a single-file platoon of trucks to data streamed to the communication hardware from numerous motion sensors equipped to the group’s lead vehicle. The constant real-time environmental assessment moderates bumper-to-bumper spacing between trucks to optimize fuel consumption by minimizing drag and maintaining ideal speeds within posted limits. The system doesn’t negate the need for a human driver, but the data-delivery capabilities of Peloton’s system do better even the sharpest human brake-reaction times by vital seconds. Volvo’s own investment announcement praised Peloton’s newly breached frontiers in collision mitigation, adaptive cruise-control systems, proprietary vehicle control algorithms and radarbased active braking systems - all features that could spur substantial leaps forward in Volvo’s own Future Truck 2025, an already practically demonstrated fully autonomous commercial truck that could hit highways in

the next ten years. “The societal demand for reduced traffic congestion, as well as improved safety on our nation’s highways, will continue to drive the need for innovative advanced technologies, such as platooning,” said Stephen Roy, president of Volvo-owned Mack Trucks North America. “Mack has had a longstanding commitment to maximizing the efficient transportation of freight, reducing the envi-

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ronmental footprint through alternative-fuel vehicles and the purposeful integration of technology and people.” Have an avenue of the North American trucking industry’s continued technological growth you’d like to see in the spotlight in June? Let us know today! Email us at nav@ thetruckingnetwork.ca or just visit us online at http://www.thetruckingnetwork.ca to continue the coversation.

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News &Continuations Mascot Truck Parts FMCSA Response To Crash Accountability: Canada Christens “We Don’t Know How To 40,000 Sq.-Ft. New Manage This” Facility Continued from page 13 Given that certain data suggests any given truck fleet’s involvement in a documented unavoidable crash does not necessarily suggests elevated future crash risks, he said, the FMCSA has chosen to look into a revised Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) scoring system to update the present legally contested standard that sanctions fleets for accidents beyond their control. “The research isn’t biased towards us, it isn’t biased towards the industry,” he said. “It is what it is going to be and then we’ll make decisions.” The CSA system directly inspired Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Barletta to introduce the Safer Trucks and Buses Act of 2015 recently, formally known as H.R. 1371 in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would strike at the common practice of the FMCSA publishing individual motor carriers’ CSA scores until the agency refines its own information. Several industry groups have recently pursued legally action blocking the publishing process, arguing that the FMCSA repeatedly publishes scores biased by either dismissed court proceedings based on citations or disputes and appeals that haven’t yet been entirely resolved.

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he recently opened Mississauga, Ont. Mascot Truck Parts Canada production and distribution center puts 40,000 sq.-ft. of viable space work improving the manufacturer’s delivery lead times while also boosting nationwide remanufactured product availability. Mascot made these dramatic improvements possible in order to replenish stock more effectively throughout Canada from a single all-purpose central distribution hub, but the company also laid out its new facility with growth in mind. The hope is that Mascot’s all-makes manufacturing capabilities can expand through the addition of a complete steering production line, more capacity for producing transmissions and differentials, and more resources available for drive shaft repairs.

Nova Enterprises, Lockhart Truck Center Seal Merger With Rebrand

ova Enterprises Limited and Lockhart Truck Center have sealed their completed merger with a fresh-faced rebranding, Truck News reported Friday. A new logo and moniker together marry the respectively valued brands into a reorganized new entity known as Nova Truck Centres. Though the newly created identity finally fully cements a merger initiated in 2013, both joined brands still maintain their own unique websites despite Nova Enterprises president James MacKay assuming the Lockhart board of directors presidency and the departures of Lockhart partners Jack MacKay and David Lockhart. That will soon change, as the newly unveiled Nova Truck Centres logo will adorn a brand-new interactive website currently in development.

AG: Winter Provincial Road Maintenance Improved... Continued from page 15 Nevertheless, crews clearing highways over recent winter months have taken longer during and after storms to safely clear roads at the same time that provincial management has stymied winter maintenance-cost growth. In fact, six out of 20 Ontario contract areas have failed on 90 per cent of called-upon occasions to meet the province’s eight-hour standard clearance window for clearing highways safely. During the winter 2013-14 season, average post-storm clearing times more than doubled from 2.1 to 4.7 hours. Whatever action plan Del Duca rolls out within his promised 60-day agenda will likely include re-examining the province’s protocols for awarding bids. The report noted several lowest-price contractors selected in recent years despite ministry personnel vocally objecting to their insufficient equipment. The province ultimately increased its own expenses on at least one occasion after being forced to buy one lowest bidder additional road-clearing equipment. In many instances, contractors learned www.thetruckingnetwork.ca

through experience that they could easily escape responsibility for inadequate performance. Out of $13.3 million in assessed fines during the 2013-14 winter season, MTO waived a total $4.8 million levied against contractors who failed to meet their targets. The performance-based contracts themselves have demanded less use in recent years of key highway treatment materials such as anti-icing liquid, sand and salt and requirement for daily road condition patrolling. With contractors now only asked to “be aware” of changes in weather and road conditions, less-frequent equipment deployments also hindered providing up-todate highway condition information to the Ministry’s Ontario 511 website. “OTA has been working with MTO and its membership for two winter seasons to help build the case that some contractors do not appear to be fully living up to their contractual obligations. OTA welcomes the Minister’s action plan and looks forward to providing the trucking industry’s input,” the OTA wrote on its website in response. May 2015 | The Trucking Network | 47

COMPANIES IN THIS ISSUE A ATLANTIS RADIATOR....................... PG 21 1-800-716-3081 AFIMAC TRANSREP......................... PG 52 1.800.313.9170

B BURROWES INSURANCE BROKERS. PG 11 1-888-690-0010 BISON TRANSPORT ........................ PG 15 1.800.462.4766 BENSON TIRES................................. PG 54 1-866-6BENSON

C CELADON CANADA....................... PG 3 & 14 1-800-332-0518 C.A.T INC........................................... PG 32 (888) 829-8666 EXT. 224 CHALLENGER............................... PG 6, 8 & 9 1.800.334.5142 CLARKE ROAD TRANSPORT........... PG 46 1-800-387-3558 CASCADES TRANSPORT INC......... PG 17 819-363-5804

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H HOLMES FREIGHT LINES INC......... PG 23 1 800 458 5688 HEALTHY TRUCKERS...................... PG 55

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NATIONAL TRUCK LEAGUE..............PG27 1.800.265.6509 NEW MILLENIUM TIRE..................... PG 36 1 888.890.1888

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Ontario Trucking Association Surveying Shipper Treatment Of Drivers Continued from page 18 Take the time today to post the campaign details in heavily trafficked areas such as driver and break rooms. Make a point of asking your drivers for their participation. When the OTA can clearly identify the weaker links in the supply chain, they can more directly and privately partner with shippers to review their policies and processes. Just as importantly, the OTA can draw encouragement from the more positive driver-shipper interactions to internalize what norms are proving the most productive. The OTA guarantees the absolute confidentiality of all driver responses and survey data.

ATA Demands Complete U.S. Highway Plan, End To Infrastructure’s “Devolution” Continued from page 18 During an April 23 media update in which Spears and Osiecki also confirmed the federal e-log mandate’s still-expected Sept. 30 National Register publishing date, the two ATA leaders drew a very urgent line: the understanding of American truckers has held the line through a 22-year holding pattern and 32 short-term extensions on the current tax levels over the past six years. The time for waiting through one stopgap funding measure after another for a longterm funding solution is through, Spears said. “Thirty-two short term extensions over the last six years. That can has got a lot of dents, it’s been kicked so many times,” Spears said. “I like to tell our members, you can think back to 1993, a number of them, their trucks were equipped with cassette players. That’s how long it’s been since Congress has dealt with this issue.” A VERY IMPORTANT MONTH May could prove a pivotal month amidst a U.S. legislature never known for swift, decisive action even when circumstances demand nothing less.

Women In Trucking Association selects Jeana Hysell as May Member of the Month Continued from page 18 Prior to her current position, Hysell was the President/CEO at Safety Compliance Professionals LLC, a consulting firm specializing under the guidelines of FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) regulations for many motor carriers. She also served as their Director of Safety with direct responsibility of any accident or accident procedures plus mitigating in reducing a motor carrier’s score under the CSA (Compliance, Safety, and Accountability) program. She has spent many hours in depositions as a representative for motor carriers and served as an expert witness surrounding driver/motor carrier responsibilities for either the plaintiff or defendant in many legal cases. Hysell has been in the transportation industry since 1979, starting out as a company driver then graduating to an owner-operator. She developed her own fleet of five trucks

leasing them on with a major carrier. After successfully driving over two million safe miles, she then left her “office behind a windshield” to the “mortars of a classroom,” graduating in 2003 with Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and in 2004 with a Master’s Degree in Occupational Safety/ Transportation Safety from CSMU (currently called UCM). In her continuing education, she has obtained many certifications surrounding Fleet Safety Manager including her Certified Director Safety (CDS), Accident Investigation and Fleet Management, and more. Hysell is heavily involved in the industry, not as only a safety manager, but she also belongs to many transportation organizations. She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Ohio Trucking Association until her relocation to Arizona. Ohio is the state where she won the Safety Professional of the Year in 2007.

CAB Logistics And Infinit-i Map More Productive Path To Effective, Efficient Safety Training Continued from page 18 By the time he returned to the annual fiveday event this past April 20, it wasn’t an intrigued potential adopter of the training system, but to provide a bona fide testimonial to its efficiency-changing effectiveness alongside a visiting Commercial Carrier Journal contingent. TRAINING SMARTER, NOT HARDER Lott’s own experience at the Vertical Alliance Group-sponsored event held twice monthly small batches of newly subscribed clients and curious potential subscribers readied him to heavily recommend the pro-

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gram. His CAB colleagues weren’t so immediately enthusiastic. It wasn’t so much that CAB’s 250 drivers serving the carrier’s two divisions - a private white-label FedEx Freight fleet and another specialized in hauling frac sand for the gas and oil industries - favored a quarterly company-wide series of safety meetings repeated over two to three consecutive days. Quite the contrary: that quarterly cycle of lost productivity itself had sent Lott to Texas last year. Lott did face a measure of resistance to a new angle on instilling safety priorities throughout the fleets.

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