February Issue CTM

Dave brings to you 36 years of valuable experience in transportation, management, business and compliance. Dave has driven in every condition across North America and overseas as military, police, company driver to owner operator to now Publisher Editor of Canadian Trucking Magazine.

2011 looks like a great year for the transport industry!

Have you noticed with the freight up and the dollar up more is being shipped south. Tonnage is finally getting the iron moving. That’s great news for your magazine cause more advertisers equals more pages. I hope in March we are back up to 48 pages and then back to 64 so CTM can provide you in print all the great articles and entertainment you enjoy.

If you know someone with a quality product to sell or you are working for a really good company that needs drivers, ask the decession makers to advertise in your favorite magazine.

Two things I want to touch on in my blurb here. First the front cover story. This is written by a publish accomplished author Lewis Mackenzie.

Lewis Mackenzie is a well know lecturer, writer of two successful books, “Soldiers Made Me Look Good” and “Peacekeeper Road to Sarajevo” Mackenzie was a well respected Major General in the Canadian Armed Forces and a Formula Racer to be reckoned with. I am not going to take all 32 pages here to note his accomplishments and great things he has done for our Country. Instead folks read his first insertion in CTM starting at page 7 and if you want to see more, email me.

I need to reach out to all my readers and friends about a real problem that affects all of us.

You have noticed in the last years how I support Little Warriors and Operation KARE, as well as many other kids organization. It’s not just because I have had nine, yes I said nine kids of my own or being a former policeman.

It’s because kids need our help.

Stay with me here. Transport For Christ, a great organization that have partnered with Chapter 61 Ministries for an initiative called Truckers against Trafficking.

300,000 children and teenagers trafficked annually.

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Yes this needs repeating National statistics puts the number of American Children and Teens trafficked at approximately 300,000.

Friends that is 300,000 to many!

Where do you think you see a lot of these teens is at the truck stops. Lot lizards we call them and don’t even realize this kids have been kidnapped from thier homes.

Let’s hit close to home here.

Jessie Foster from Kamloops BC. Moved to Calgary and then to LasVegas lured by someone she did not know was a recruiter for the sex slave business. Now gone and missing!

Chances are that Jessie or another child like her are walking around a truck stop or travel stop or a low track bar.

There are ways you can help, These victims are told if they call for help or try to go to the police

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thier families and friends can be harmed. They need to know that these low life scum cannot harm anyone from prison.

Watch the missing posters at the boarder crossings and in my magazine, newspapers and internet. If you see one of these children in a misuse situation contact the local police.In plain language if you see a child working a truck stop drop a dime!

If they approach you, ask them why they are doing this! If they are stumped by that question they may be in trouble. Do not try to intervene yourself these are dangerous punks with weapons using theses kids.

Educate yourself, as a driver you see all kinds of thing and go to many different places. Little Warriors and Truckers against Trafficking can give you the tools to identify someone in trouble and what to do once you have.

Truckers you have always been the hero’s of the highway there to help a person in trouble. A car broken down on the side of the road or in the ditch is a flag they need help. The flag for these kids are they are some place they should not be.

Hey a lot of good truck shows coming up in the near future now is the time to make your plans to be there.

I will be at Stirling again this year looking to give another lucky driver a HERD bar for thier truck. See you all there!

Happy Trails,,,,,,,, Dave

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www.albertamissingpersons.ca John Lyle ARMSTRONG 47 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 173 cm; 5’8” Weight: 73 kg; 161 lbs Hair Colour: Red-Grey Eye Colour: Green Date Last Seen: March 21, 2009 Place Last Seen: Calgary, Alberta File# 09098801 Calgary Police Service (403-266-1234) Information: ARMSTRONG left his home and said he was going for a long walk.

Rene Lynn GUNNING 19 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 157 cm; 5’2” Weight: 50 kg; 111 lbs Hair Colour: Black Eye Colour: Brown Date Last Seen: February 18, 2005 Place Last Seen: Edmonton, Alberta File# 2003-6950 RCMP Project KARE (1-877-412-5273) Information: GUNNING was last known to be leaving West Edmonton Mall in hope of hitchhiking back to British Columbia.

Kevin Glen PURDY 31 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 183 cm; 6’0” Weight: 75 kg; 166 lbs Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Brown Date Last Seen: August 22, 1999 Place Last Seen: Red Deer, Alberta File# 99-20693 RCMP Red Deer City Detachment (403-343-5575) Information: PURDY was last seen leaving his home in Red Deer. His vehicle was later located north of Red Deer.

Amber Alyssa TUCCARO 20 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 155 cm; 5’1” Weight: 65 kg; 143 lbs Hair Colour: Black Eye Colour: Brown Date Last Seen: August 18, 2010 Place Last Seen: Nisku, Alberta File#20101010799 RCMP Leduc Detachment (780-980-7200) Information: Amber TUCCARO was last seen at the Nisku Place Hotel. She has not been in contact with anyone since that date.

Any information in regards to any missing person you are asked to please call the investigating agency at the numbers provided or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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Sandy Long - Making Changes In the latest issue of Landline Magazine is a letter to the editor from a friend of mine. In it he talks about how women are still treated in the industry at truck stops, shippers and receivers and among other places we all have to do business at or with. He is right in his contention that it should not happen that a woman driver is not waited on, served, talked to with respect or acknowledged as a professional driver. Things are better than they were 20-30 years ago, but there is still much room for improvement.

Some of we women drivers are working on making the changes we see as needed. Last fall, myself and several other of the Women In Trucking Association Driver Advisory Committee had a phone conference with the executives from the TA/Petro corporation. During the over two hour conference call, we women drivers addressed the very issues at truck stops that my friend in his letter to the editor mentioned; that of courtesy given to women at the restaurants, fuel desks and shops affiliated with TA/Petro. The executives all agreed that it was unacceptable for any woman to be disrespected as a customer of their truck stops and they said that they would institute some additional training for staff to address courtesy towards women drivers especially.

In addition to the above issue concerning women, during the conference call, we also initiated dialog about lighting, pot holes, security and goods available in the stores with the executives that affects all drivers not just women. One of the things I brought up specifically was cleanliness in the bathrooms and showers; I told them, “it does not make a difference if you have big orange towels and flowers if the floor is not clean.”

In my friend’s letter to the editor, he mentioned organizations that are not addressing the issues facing women quickly enough or something to that effect. As a charter member of Women In Trucking Association and as a member of their Driver Advisory Committee, I have seen some good things happen in the four years since it’s founding. A White Paper, which Ellen Voie started researching even before the

founding of WIT, is now available thru J.J. Keller, free to WIT’s corporate members, that addresses the treatment of trainees of both genders.

From the Trucker.com: “The trucking industry has struggled with how to avoid harassment issues between driver trainers and trainees during the initial weeks of employment. “The practice of putting two unrelated individuals in the cab of a truck for a few weeks of training can create a tenuous environment, especially when one is a male and one is a female,” said Ellen Voie, President/CEO of Women In Trucking Association.” ““Unfortunately, the situation is unavoidable if there are not enough female trainers to accompany a female trainee,” Voie remarked. “We realize that harassment issues are not limited to those of opposite gender, so the white paper will be gender neutral to address potential harassment scenarios and offer ways to minimize or eliminate negative interaction,” she added.”

The 2nd annual Salute to the Women Behind the Wheel will be again at MATS this year highlighting women drivers and their accomplishments. This tribute to women truckers puts women out in the limelight so to speak and brings attention to the fact that women are valuable assets to the trucking industry and are garnering millions of miles both as solo and team drivers. It might not seem like much to some people, but it is amazing to see the photo of all those women truckers in their red shirts standing together and focuses media and public attention on the positive role women play in the trucking industry.

As far as organizations go, in my opinion, OOIDA uses a sledgehammer weighted with our huge (though not huge enough yet) membership and their almost four decades of experience in making changes and in getting their point across.

The Women In Trucking Association uses a tack hammer and through their affiliations with trucking companies on all levels is chipping away at the inequalities facing we women in the trucking industry in all areas of it. WIT encourages their connections to see women as a valuable resource to fill their truck’s seats and to treat them equally with our brother drivers.

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As a young organization, we members at WIT are making the connections necessary to effect change in the future with politicians, companies and other organizations. Eventually, through good publicity such as the Salute to the Women Behind the Wheel, the White Paper concerning policies to avoid harassment of trainees of both genders and opportunities given to us member advocates of the trucking industry through interaction with people who approach WIT for accurate information; WIT will graduate to a bigger hammer.

Until then, we women drivers need to be patient, good things will come through hard work and finesse; I cannot wait for the day we are treated totally equally with our brother drivers, but it will come, making changes just takes some time.

Ya’ll be safe out there!

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Sandy Long is a long time truck driver who is also very active within the trucking industry. She was a long time writer for layover.com, is a life member of OOIDA, member of the WIT and owner of two websites: Trailer Truckin’ Tech, a yahoo group dedicated to the education of new and prospective truck drivers and www.satinandsteelsisterhood.com for women truck drivers.

Sandy’s first book Street Smarts: A Guide for a Truck Driver’s Personal Safety is available at https://www.createspace.com/34495 66

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Dawn Truell

Recent Border Seizures

By: Dawn Truell, President, Cross Border Services There are reasons why we need to Comply with Government Programs such as C-TPAT & PIP, drug smuggling today is out of control, these programs aid in protecting us all from drug smugglers.

Users have suffered serious side effects, including panic attacks, heart palpitations, hallucination, delusions and vomiting. It is also illegal in many European countries and several states in the United States.

Five Charged, One Million Doses Seized in Largest Ever Ketamine Bust, Vancouver, British Columbia. On December 7, 2010, border services officers identified a suspicious shipment onboard a container vessel arriving from Hong Kong. Documentation accompanying the shipment identified the goods as 402 cartons of coffee mugs. When CBSA officers examined the 20-foot marine container, they noticed discrepancies in the Xray images and conducted a full examination of the container.

Here are some recent border seizures: CBSA and CPS seize $30,000 worth of synthetic cannabis in Calgary, Alberta on Tuesday, January 25, 2011; this investigation resulted in the execution of search warrants by both agencies on seven stores known to sell drug paraphernalia used for marijuana. Inside, officers seized 770 packages of a product containing suspected synthetic cannabis, which is illegal in Canada.

Synthetic cannabis, which also goes by the brand names Spice, K2, Yucatan Fire, Tribe and Skunk, is an herbal and chemical product which mimics the effects of cannabis.

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Their examination confirmed 318 cartons of coffee mugs and 84 boxes that contained coffee mugs and vacuum sealed bags containing a white crystalline powder. Tests performed by border services officers indicated that the bags contained ketamine hydrochloride. A total of 1003.9 kg of ketamine was seized. Ketamine is a tranquilizer with hallucinogenic properties. The 1003.9 kg seized in this file represents well over 1 million doses — enough ketamine for every person in the cities of Surrey and Vancouver combined.

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This seizure represents more than $15 million taken out of the wallets of drug traffickers. Ketamine causes symptoms including amnesia, depression, and long-term memory and cognitive problems.

The drug can be used on its own, but it is also commonly cut and mixed into ecstasy pills, or is used as a date-rape drug. Ketamine is in the same category as cocaine, opium and heroin and is illegal to import, possess or sell. The maximum penalty for importing or trafficking ketamine is life imprisonment.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than $119,000 in marijuana and arrested two men in separate cases. According to court records, the 20 year old man was arrested Sunday at Los Indios International Bridge by CBP and later charged by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with possession of a controlled substance. A 21 year old man was arrested Friday at Gateway International Bridge and also charged

by ICE with possession of a controlled substance

Cross Border Services deals with all of these government compliancy programs and regulations, for Information please contact

www.crossborderservices.org crossborderservices@cogeco.net

905-973-9136 Information on any cross border issues contact crossborderservices@cogeco.net 905-973-9136.

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