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March 2014 Volume 25, Issue 3
Lacking 15L: Carriers using LNG will be without a 15L option for the foreseeable future.
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Looking good: Most indicators in the US point to favourable trucking conditions for 2014.
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Shopping around: Late model used trucks with low mileage are more getting difficult to find.
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Restructuring: Canadian Freightways shut several B.C. terminals as part of a reorganization.
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A new distribution centre and industrial park taking shape in Delta, B.C. near Port Metro Vancouver, already has one trucking tenant and the developers say the location is making it attractive to other distributors and truckers from further inland, including Alberta.
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DELTA, B.C. – Truckers in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia will soon have a new place to go for pick-ups and deliveries, thanks to a state-ofthe-art facility scheduled to open its doors in May. The Boundary Bay Industrial Park is a project of the Dayhu Group and promises nearly a million square feet of space for companies looking for a location close to Deltaport. “We are a firm believer that the flow of goods from Deltaport is going to dictate a growth of concentration of industrial buildings south of the Fraser,” Paul Tilbury, Dayhu’s COO, told Truck West. He noted that Dayhu, which already has in excess of four million square feet of distribution-type buildings in B.C. and Alberta, saw the pending completion of the South Fraser Perimeter Road as an opportunity for them to build what turned out to be nearly 900,000 sq.-ft. of distribution space
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“arguably in the closest proximity to Deltaport that any building can offer,” he said. “And so as an industrial landlord, it was a natural extension of our business for us to commit to a development at that facility.” Tilbury said the 45-acre site near the Boundary Bay airport, which he described as being about a seven minute drive from Deltaport along the new highway, is being built in two phases. The first 440,000 sq.-ft. facility, which will be ready for action by this May, has snagged its first tenant already. “We’ve got one client who’s taken 110,000 square feet,” Tilbury said, noting that the building is designed to accommodate up to four tenants in all. “We will then build the second building, or Phase 2 of the development, which will effectively mirror Building One,” he said. Dayhu hopes to start construction on that phase later this year. Chris McAuley, of CBRE, said he located the
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WCB rates rise, fall or stand pat
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By Jim Bray t looks like 2014’s WCB rates are a bit of an up and down proposition this year, depending on which western province you live in. In B.C., according to WorkSafeBC, rates will increase by less than a tenth of a percentage of “the average employer’s total payroll costs,” which the organization says is similar to the 2013 hike, which came after “nearly a decade of level or declining rates.” What the new figures mean in cash terms is that the average rate per $100 of employers’ assessable payroll will increase from $1.63 to $1.70, which WorkSafeBC says is just under a 5% increase “in nominal terms,” and means a small business employer with a payroll of $500,000 and an average premium rate would see a rate increase of $400 ($33 per month) for the year. It may not be a huge hike, but coming as it does at a time when businesses are struggling to stay in the black, it undoubtedly doesn’t help. On the other hand, it appears that companies may be their own worst enemies when it comes to setting rates. Continued on page 8
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