September Canadian Trucking Magazine

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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.

This has been a very busy Month!

Front Cover the Convoy for Special olympics held in Winterpeg, MB.

There is full coverage of this in a Web magazine on the CTM web site so I could include every driver and most people that gave the effort to come out.

Special thanks again to Dennis Swayze who once again camera in hand came out to make sure this event was photographed. You can catch his photos @ www.pbase.com/photosbydennis

or with the links on our CTM Face Book page or the digital web mag on our CTM web site.

There were 52 trucks for a total of $20.500 raised.

The Lead Truck (of course with a HERD Bar to clear the way) was Henry Picton of Darcol Transport with the most money pledged.

The Pictons must have spent the most on the Silent auction as well as thier table cleaned up on the draws.

Henry took our FAV morning host from QX104 Mookie on the Convoy for a birds eye view!

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The Athletes Choice Truck was Flying Eagle Transport the one and only Clarence Falk.

That is CTM Vannesa with her own truck Buffalo Driver Training

What a truck a truck folks, a clear choice to make. I was told he even has a shower in there.

We have another year now till the next Convoy here in Winnipeg.

How about we put it on the calender for September 2011 and make it the largest ever.

In October this month I hope all you women in trucking or teams with a women that can drive will show up at one of the Convoy for a Cure. October 3rd, 17th and 24th. Find a city you can attend and be a part of this great Convoy!

As truck drivers we are always first to help out if we can, a person in trouble on the road or a good cause. These Convoys we really do make a difference.

The athletes look forward each year to this convoy as well, as they are matched up with a driver and get to roll around the perimeter highway in a big rig.

I will look forward to seeing as many as you as can next September in Winterpeg!

Many Thanks to our Law Enforcement friends for the escort.

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Which brings me to the National Professional Truck driving Championships!

Held right in Winterpeg MB and a great one it was. Details on the winners on page 10.

But first the Grand Champion of Canada from British Columbia Dean Grant.

Dean drove a TandemTandem Class and works for Agrifoods International Co-op. It was my honour and pleasure to present Dean with a certificate for a HERD Bar worth over $3,000 to be delivered right to him in BC. Please check out the press release on page 10 for more information and CTM congratulates the Manitoba Trucking Association, it’s volunteers and Sponsors for a job very well done. Next year it is in Alberta.

You may of HERD me mention twice now leading the Convoy and receiving a prize of a HERD Integrated Vehicle Protection. I like to through CTM and events give a HERD to the Grand Prize winners. I believe it is a better prize than a trip somewhere and is

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something that will really benefit the driver. Not only in damage, down time and injury in case of an accident, but the relief of stress going down the highway, especially ones like 17 & 11 with your moose bumper, moron masher at the ready.

Gabe Ewasko from Beausejour MB is a great example

of this. With only 41 days on his new truck he hit a full grown moose at 100 k/h and only hade 54 bucks in damage. Just a light!

You can see his testimony at HERD www.herd.com. Do you know what the moose would have done.

Gary Cox, HERD winner from Fergus has twice now been saved by his HERD!

Search for a dealer close to you and tell them Dave from CTM has something for you when you purchase a HERD. Then be sure to let me know first HERD save you have.

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Is it one of our worst nightmares to see a uniform standing out at us and look down and realize that darn truck jumped over the speed limit, again.

On MSN I notice an article

by Mark Atkinson taking about the line between speed enforcement for safety and just the dreaded speed trap. He pointed out a US based Motorist Association that runs Speedtrap.org a forum that allows users to tell other drivers about popular speed trap locations.

They have the listing of the worst North american Cities.

Start with Alberta, worst City to get hit in, Calgary, worst trap, Deerfoot Tr. to Southland Dr.

Manitoba, it is Hwy 75 at St.Norbert. I would think those darn cameras in Wpg are much worse.

In Ontario we are talking Toronto, Eglinton at Leslie

In Saskatchewan it is of course Saskatoon at the corner of McKercher & 8th St. A radar trap in SK can shoot from the MB border to AB.

How about BC? Bet you did not know Vancouver is the worst by Boundary Rd. near Marine Dr. You would have thought maybe the Coq. In North Dakota Fargo is listed as the worst for speed traps.

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If you were wondering the worst place in the USA, is Detroit in the Michigan suburbs. I can attest to that having driven there and seen a radar car every 2 or 3 miles.I guess that is how they afford those cool Police Cars!

Well I guess that is it for another issue. I have a lot more to say but will include that in the on line digital version.

It was great to have a bite to eat with my good friend Norm Schultz. I found him now at Ayr Motor doing what Norm does best, looking after drivers. Off to the Oakpoint we went.

Happy Trails,,,,,see you in the Truck Stops,,, Dave

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I was invited by our good friend Doug Haims Sales Manager at Beaver Truck Center to the Volvo Driving Success Tour. Talk about strategies for increased fuel efficency. Not to mention on the lot is this Volvo that has driven to the moon and back 4.5 times and only needed one injector.

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Sandy Long - Ouch! That Hurts!

We truckers live in a dangerous world. Our trucks that we drive set high and we have to climb in and out of them. We have to climb up into trailers that don't have hand rails and worry every time that we open the doors about freight falling out on top of us.

We work around hazardous loads like chemicals and rusty metals. We work in all sorts of weather and the very ground we walk on is an immense obstacle course filled with pot holes, large gravel and the detritus of shippers, receivers and our fellow drivers. Minor injuries are a common part of our working world.

One never knows when an injury will occur. Last year, my trailer wouldn't hold to slide my tandems. I found a piece of 2x4 to use as a chock block so I could get my pins locked in and take it to the shop to have the brakes worked on. As I slid the wood into my side box after setting the pins, a large sharp sliver ran itself into my hand over an inch. A couple of years ago, I ran into a driver at a fuel island that had slipped getting out of his truck, fell and had cut his arm in several places on the parking lot gravel and broken his elbow. A driver I know was walking across the grass lawn of a shipper to go inside and stepped in a grass covered hidden hole and sprained her ankle. We all have stories of minor and not so minor injuries that have happened to us or someone we know.

Being prepared to deal with the injuries that we might get is a necessity that few think of until injuries happen to them. All drivers

should have a good first aid kit in their trucks, I do, but then I carry some extra things also. I keep a new ACE bandage, peroxide, antibiotic salve, alcohol, ice pack and various sizes of bandaids along with some 4"x4" gauze pads and tape. When I flat bedded, I carried finger splints too. My boss says I am the klutziest driver he knows, I was always busting a knuckle or hurting some body part.

You don't need actual first aid training, you can find many websites and booklets on how to treat minor injuries. Here are some basics: Clean any type of skin opening wound with soap and water if available, peroxide if not. Apply pressure to stop bleeding and use an antibacterial salve and some sort of covering; bandaid or gauze and tape. If it is deep or won`t stop bleeding, get to an emergency facility right away.

Use ice on sprains asap, and then wrap the joint with an ACE type bandage. Don't use that joint any more than necessary, elevate it if possible and don't sleep with the bandage on.

See a doctor to make sure nothing is broken.

If you think you have a broken bone, go to the doctor right away. Immobilize the area where the break occurs, pack with ice if possible and call for help if you are unable to drive.

Bee stings can be treated with a tobacco poultice. Take either chewing tobacco or crumble the tobacco out of a cigarette. Make the tobacco slightly wet and apply to the bite. Cover with gauze and tape until the poultice is dry and then after gently cleaning the area, apply some antibacterial salve and a bandaid. Get to the doctor if you start feeling sick.

Those of you who travel down south may encounter fire ants.

These little critters really put the OUCH!!! Factor to work. Their bites carry some heavy duty poison that

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burns like fire while itching like crazy. If you are bitten by one or two fire ants, use alcohol on the bite area and then some cortisone cream, if you are bitten by many ants, get to a doctor immediately! There have been a lot of people that have an adverse reaction to fire ant bites.

While on the subject of insects, don't mess with any sort of spi-

der bite. Clean the area, apply antibacterial salve and get to the doctor. Take the creepy crawly with you if you can for identification purposes.

Brown recluse and black widow spiders can cause some serious complications in the bite area if not treated professionally immediately and are common in lumber and steel piles and in the corners of warehouses.

Working with your doctor is important in as to the immunizations you need. Tetanus shots are important because of working around rusty met-

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als and the nails and bolts laying around everywhere, this shot has to be gotten every ten years. Hepatitis B is very prevalent and is easy to get eating in truck stops and using public restrooms the way we do. Hepatitis A vaccines are recommended for drivers who work along the southern border.

Your doctor or his/her nurse can also help you decide on what to include in a first aid kit specific to your individual needs.

Getting minor injuries is not just a maybe, it is a given in our industry. If in doubt as to the severity of your injury, get to the doctor or call the ambulance for help. Notify your company if the injury is severe immediately and follow their instructions for workman's comp coverage claims. It is a good thing to let at least your dispatcher know if you are injured beyond just a scratch or bruise even though it is not initially serious enough for a workman`s comp claim, even a minor injury can become a major one if left untreated or complications set in.

Ya'll be safe out there!

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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They Criticize us Truck Drivers - Darwin Awards Eighth Place In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

Sixth Place While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom! When it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him.

Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital .

Fifth Place Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor. .

Fourth Place Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

Third Place After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store.

The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up! and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators lo-

cated 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt.

HONORABLE MENTION Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M. so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen.

Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed.

RUNNER UP Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay near by. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other (!) to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen.

Bingham's foot was never located.

AND THE WINNER IS..

Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn , Germany ) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.

Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded. The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.

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Dawn Truell Cross Border Services Beginning September 14, 2010, the license plate readers will be installed in each of the three primary inspection lanes at the Cornwall border. License plate readers capture vehicle plate numbers to provide border services officers with information about the vehicle registration, ownership and passage history. CBSA will introduce security gates in the Primary Inspection Lanes at the interim port of entry in the City of Cornwall effective September 7, 2010. The security gates, along with previously installed speed bumps, will assist with traffic control and the safety and security of officers and pedestrians in the general vicinity of the port of entry. Following routine questioning by border services officers, the security gate will be raised to enable travelers to proceed to the secondary inspection area or to exit the CBSA compound as instructed by the officer. The security gates are similar to ones already in place at CBSA port of entry operations in other parts of Canada

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Regina, Saskatchewan, September 9, 2010 – CBSA and the RCMP have dismantled a significant marijuana grow operation in the community of Grenfell, Saskatchewan. On September 7, 2010, a traveler seeking entry into Canada at the Goodlands, Manitoba border crossing, located approximately 400 km southeast of Regina. CBSA of-

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ficers referred the traveler for a secondary examination. During this examination, a small amount of suspected hash was located in the individual's vehicle along with documents to suggest the presence of a grow operation in Saskatchewan. A 29-year-old male from Calgary, Alberta was arrested at the border. He was taken into custody with the assistance of the RCMP Killarney detachment in Manitoba, prompting an investigation of a property. On September 8, RCMP executed a search warrant on the property, an abandoned theatre in Grenfell, Saskatchewan, located approximately

125 km east of Regina. Inside, RCMP officers found approximately 416 marijuana plants in all stages of growth. The marijuana grow operation used a sophisticated and automated system to support the marijuana plants.

Niagara Fort Erie Region $325,000 cocaine seized at the Queenston Bridge. September 2, 2010, CBSA officers seized the 2.5 kg along with a gun in possession of two residents from the Greater Toronto Area seeking re-entry to Canada during secondary screening with the assistance of Detector Dog Ruben and his handler.

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MV Sun Sea Migrants – August 23, 2010 - The safety and security of Canadians remains a priority for the Government of Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency.

CBSA is exercising due diligence in the screening of all irregular migrants for both security and criminal threats. The adult migrants have been transferred to appropriate accommodation and detention facilities on the Lower Mainland where the CBSA is conducting more detailed examinations to determine admissibility. Minors are not in detention; accompanied minors will remain with their mothers in low-risk facilities and, wherever possible, will be accommodated together. In the best interest of the children, unaccompanied minors have been released to the B.C. Ministry of Children and Family Development and are being cared for in a safe and secure facility.

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

Dawn Truell, President, Cross Border Services

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