April 2011 Volume 31, Issue 4 Delivering daily news to Canada’s trucking industry at www.trucknews.com
Mixed messages Carriers complain e-logs not being accepted in Quebec By James Menzies MONTREAL, Que. – Are enforcement officers in Quebec shunning electronic hours-of-service logs? That’s the message some fleets are receiving; a message that threatens to disrupt the widespread adoption of electronic onboard recorders for the tracking of driver hours-of-service. However, Arnold Yetman, carrier enforcement officer, Control Routier Quebec, insists carriers are welcome to use electronic logs in Quebec, as long as the systems fully comply with federal guidelines. And the Quebec Trucking Association has received recent assurance that carriers can use EOBRs for hours-of-service recording, provided the systems meet the regulatory criteria. “They are accepted if they meet the regulatory requirements,” Yetman told Truck News. (See related story, pg 15 for list of requirements). “It’s that simple. If they don’t meet the regulatory requirements, they will get fined.” But tell that to Jim Harris, fleet safety manager for Total Logistics Group, which has recently equipped its fleet with
csi belleville: Rob Haggarty, president of ITS, describes how the company executed its first ever acquisition. Photo by James Menzies
For ITS, getting the lawyers out of the room helped pave the way for CSI Logistics acquisition By James Menzies BELLEVILLE, Ont. – It was 8 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 31 when Rob Haggarty and Craig Cottrell gathered to address the office staff at CSI Logistics at its headquarters in Cornwall, Ont. At the same time, Max Haggarty was summoning Internation-
al Truckload Services (ITS) employees for an announcement at the company’s Belleville facilities, 256 kilometres to the west along Hwy. 401. What was about to transpire was the culmination of months of boardroom bargaining and legal wrangling that occurs behind the
scenes of any significant trucking industry acquisition. Sometimes, the cat is already out of the bag long before the paperwork is signed and the merger or acquisition is announced. Other times, as was the case of ITS’s acquisition of CSI Logistics, the Continued on page 37
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Inside This Issue...
• LCVs here to stay?:
The Long Combination Vehicle pilot project in Ontario is a ‘pilot’ no more. The province has made it a regular permit program and doubled participation. Page 17
• Medium-duty report:
We report on new medium-duty truck offerings introduced at the recent Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, Ind. Pages 39-42
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• CSA Security: Flatdeckers are facing increased scrutiny when it comes to load securement in the US under CSA.
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• Eye for an eye: Mark Dalton closes in on perpetrators of a heinous crime that left a trucker badly beaten.
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