Leo Barros

4 days ago | trucknews.com | Leo Barros

Bob Cousins is a worried man. He’s got a brand-new truck sitting in his yard outside Ottawa for the past couple of weeks, awaiting plates to begin working. He’s making $3,200 a month in truck payments on an idle vehicle. If the truck was in service, he’d have been earning a profit of about $100 a day. “It quickly adds up,” he said. Ontario has made changes to the administration of the international registration plan (IRP) leading to backlogs and delays.

1 week ago | trucknews.com | Leo Barros

Krista Paschenko was named the 2025 National Recruiter of the Year at the National Recruiting & Retention Symposium in Burlington, Ont. Paschenko, a Contrans Tank Group recruiter based out of Woodstock, Ont., said that she was surprised by the honor, and it was “good and humbling.”She has been a recruiter for 20 years and comes from a family of truck drivers. “My grandfather, father, uncles, brothers, and cousins are truckers.

1 week ago | trucknews.com | Leo Barros

There isn’t a lot of recruiting going on at the moment in trucking. The threat of tariffs from south of the border and resulting economic uncertainty are some of the hot topics giving industry leaders sleepless nights. Stephen Laskowski, president of the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA), said that the group’s members are having trouble keeping the lights on. They are dealing with a shrinking economy exacerbated by competitors using the Driver Inc.

1 week ago | trucknews.com | Leo Barros

Many years ago, I enjoyed flying various types of aircraft – from single propeller planes to mighty passenger jetliners. A popular flight simulator game was a fun way to live my piloting dreams behind the safety of a desktop computer. Line up the airplane on the runway, apply full power, release the brakes, accelerate to rotation speed and gently raise the nose to climb. All this was done with the help of a joystick plugged into the computer. A good set of headphones added to the illusion.

1 week ago | trucknews.com | Leo Barros

A Driver Inc. crackdown in British Columbia will begin in Kamloops on May 13. Provincial and federal agencies, including Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, WorkSafeBC, and Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), will begin a coordinated roadside campaign, according to a B.C. Trucking Association (BCTA) news release. The focus will be on vehicle compliance and identifying labor violations in the commercial transport sector. The Driver Inc.