july edition canadian trucking magazine
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Fergus, Fergus,Fergus!
Did I say that enough
folks! I want to get your atten-
tion because there are not a
lot of truck shows left and it is
a party you have to go to.
At Fergus this yearwe are right up front withsome great prizes.
Hard to miss the CTM
Banner and the large crowds
that always gathers there.
At CTM we love togive prizes to drivers toshow we do appreciateyour readership and loyalty.
When you come to our
booth M30 at fergus you can
have the chance to win oneof 5 Rand McNALLY GPSthe famous intelliroute CTMhas written about.
These units are worth
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hanced truck services.
Dave brings to you 38 years of valuable expe-
rience in transportation, management, busi-
ness 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.
The Stirling show was
fantastic as always. In this
months Editions you will see
some of the happy Drivers
that won awesome prizes
from Canadian Trucking
Magazine and our friends at
thesource.ca
and HERD.
For more informa-tion and pictures from Stirling Truck show seeour expanded web [email protected]
As well you will see
great pictures from the
Dryden Truck show now in
it’s second year.
The Dance Saturdaynight at the Dryden TruckShow was one of the bestorganized I have seen withgreat music and evensnacks.
The greatest part of
these shows are the people.
Like minded people getting
together to share good times
and stories.
There is so much to
tell and show you about these
events you may have missed
that a magazine this size
would not do it justice. That is
why at our web site I put an
extended version with more
pictures stories and content.
As well if you are onfacebook don’t forget tovisit our page CanadianTrucking Magazine andpress LIKE. There you will
get first release information
and stories.
We have over 2,300
fans right now.
At Stirling my friendWendy Morgan-McBride &Great Husband Carl McBrideonce again had theMemorial Highway in Heaven
~ A Tribute for Truckers ~I was lucky enough to be asked
by them to say a poem. You
should visit thier web site at:http://www.tributefortruckers.com/
for a great cause!
Once again showingthe family atmosphere withthe famous catch fraze“Where Friends are Made”.
If you did not have a
chance to get out to any of
these great events and Fergus
was not in the trip this month
CTM is putting on a showand shine on August 27th inWinnipeg at the OakpointRestaurant.
Our friends at TheSource are stepping up tothe plate and again providingover $2,000 in prizes. The
Source and Trucking make
good partners as drivers love
toys and need electronic tools
for our work. The Source havethe electronics you need andthe help you want and better
driver, you don’t have to find
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they are as close as yourcomputer at thesource.ca.
Of course I am a big
fan of Gadgets and electronic
tools that I can just order on
line and have delivered. NowThe Source have specialdiscounts on the backcover of CTM and specialon our facebook page.
So there you have it! If
you want to have the time of
your life and win some prizes
come see me at Fergus or
the CTM Show & Shine.
I hope you have all
tuned into my spot the RoadHammer Report on theDriver Show. I try to bring up
to the moment topics and hu-
mour to your day.
This month I am proud
to have two pages for theSoldier On Fund. We need
to support those who support
us. A Soldier is someonewho at one point in his life,wrote a blank check madepayable to 'The Country ofCanada', for an amount of'up to and including thierlife.'
Happy Trails,,,,,,Dave 5
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The Soldier On Fund pro-
vides resources and opportunities
for serving and retired Canadian
Forces personnel with a perma-
nent or chronic illness or injury to
improve their quality of life through
active participation in physical,
recreational and sporting activities.
Since its inception, the Fund hasprovided assistance to morethan 257 members. Donations
are used to purchase adaptive
equipment as well as finance travel
and training expenses for partici-
pating in physical, recreational and
sporting activities.
“The Soldier On program was in-
strumental in providing me with the
adaptive equipment to get active in
sport,” explained Sgt (retired)
Steve Daniel. “I was provided with
a basketball wheelchair that I use
each week to play with a local
team. The ability to get active has
made a huge improvement on my
quality of life. I am able to use
recreational sport to help keep fit,
as well as socialize with other
members of the disabled commu-
nity.”
The Fund supports ill and
injured Canadian Forces personnel
or former personnel in their efforts
to increase their independence and
restore the joy and freedom of their
lives through physical fitness, recre-
ation and sport.
“100% of your donation will gotowards opening doors to life op-portunities, developing newskills and achieving goals,” saidGreg Lagacé, Soldier On Man-ager. “It gives an opportunity for ill
and injured personnel to explore
common interest, share learning
experiences and ultimately provid-
ing a better quality of life.”
To make a secure online donation,
please visit:
www.SoldierOn.ca
and select ‘Donate to the Soldier
On Fund’ from the menu. To make
a donation by telephone, have your
credit card information ready and
call 1-877-445-6444. To make a
donation by mail, send a cheque or
money order payable to: Soldier On
Fund, c/o Canadian Forces Person-
nel and Family Support Services,
4210 Labelle Street, Ottawa, ON
K1A 0K2.
Soldier On Fund by Christine Meyer
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There is a
lot of talk
these days
about how to
m a k e
w o m e n
more com-
f o r t a b l e
about enter-
ing male dominated fields. Levelingthe playing fields so that any job isavailable to any gender in today’seconomy makes a lot of sense; buthow does one make anyone com-fortable in entering any profession?
When I entered trucking, way
back when, the predominant idea
about women in male dominated jobs
was that we would not be able to do
the job, that our hormones would con-
trol us and that we would not hold up
under the conditions both mental and
physical demanded at that time in
trucking. Women who were hired back
then and who persevered, did not get
emotional once a month or anytime
else unless angered, did the job with-
out asking for quarter and kept any
stress related issues to themselves
and just dealt with them. Women who
could not do the above, did not last
long.
Sexual harassment was ram-
pant back then too though not ex-
pressed in that term when I first
climbed in my first truck. It was not un-
common for a lead seat to sleep with
their female second seats…therefore
many of us would not run with some-
one that we would not have a relation-
ship with. Of course, the equipment
back then was not conducive to private
sleeping arrangements; single bunk
cabovers, though some of us figured
out how to sleep head to toe with our
co-drivers. Some safety directors or
personnel directors would expect sex-
ual favors for a woman to move up to
second seat or to go solo, we fought
those types of behavior. One must re-
member though that back then, before
AIDS and sexual harassment laws, so-
ciety as a whole was still in the free love
ideal, trucking was no different and we
women back then understood human
nature too. We knew some men were
most likely going to try something with
us of an intimate nature and we learned
quickly how to handle those times with
humor and at times aggression.
Today, in trucking, companies
want to hire women for many reasons;
safety, performance and care of the
equipment are just a few of the rea-
sons. Women have moved up the cor-
porate ladder and brought
understanding to the boardrooms that
women are not the weak, emotional
creatures we were once thought of as
being. Equipment has changed to be
more female (and smaller male) friendly
as has the fingerprinting of loads off
and on the trailers, we can easily hire
lumpers now days. Have ideas
changed in reality though?
Women are now entering
trucking that are vastly different than
those of us who entered back in the
day…the 1960’s and ‘70’s. With the
poor image of truckers as a whole pro-
moted by insurance companies,
lawyers and the media in general,
women, who are very aware of sexual
harassment laws, enter trucking and
look for obstacles such as predatory
behavior, sexual harassment and dis-
crimination. At times, they perceive
those things where they actually do not
exist. Women have forgotten human
nature it appears in that they do not un-
derstand the difference between a
driver being interested in them person-
ally and a safety director asking for sex-
ual favors to keep their job.
Many women today want to
be treated differently because they are
women in male dominated fields. I
have heard women saying they want
everything from front row reserved
parking at truck stops to separate truck-
Sandy Long - Makes Sense
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stops all together for women only.
Some do not think they should have to
go to certain places because it is un-
safe, though they think it ok that men
should go there. Some are so fearful
that they want to carry guns or mace
even before they get out on the road
from trucking school, they think all male
drivers are predators.
Women of this type do perpet-
uate the myth of long ago that women
cannot do the job as well as men and
may be too emotional or find the stress
too great to stay in the field. Compa-
nies are now afraid of the sexual ha-
rassment suits that are brought by
women and some are scrambling to
defend themselves against them.
Even our male peers are afraid to say
good morning to a lady driver because
of fear of being called in on for just
being polite. Trucking has not changed
enough for only women to train women
or for women to only deal with other
women.
To make women more com-
fortable in entering the trucking, or any
other male dominated field, education
is the key. Education of both genders
that is. Straight honest information be-
ginning in the trucking schools and
ending with companies and recruiters
would be a good start. That education
should point out the human factors that
one will meet in working with the oppo-
site gender, what exactly sexual ha-
rassment or discrimination means and
how to deal with it to begin with; then
further education of company person-
nel on how to treat everyone equally
and with respect to finish off with. In
addition, straight facts on how in actu-
ality many women of both genders are
victims of crime especially by other
drivers instead of making women fear-
ful of their brother drivers should be
taught and talked about.
Women entering a male dom-
inated field have to learn that they have
to fit into the field, not the field change
to fit them; there is a job to be done and
whether one is a male or a female, that
job is the same and is done the same
way. Problems only enter in on the
human level and those sometimes are
just nature and the way the genders dif-
fer. Any woman who enters any male
dominated profession or field has to ac-
cept some hard facts about the job too.
No, it might not be comfortable until you
prove yourself one of the guys and that
you can do the job with the rest of them,
you will have to have on leather gloves
instead of kid gloves to handle some of
what you will find. Then you will be
comfortable and succeed…if you want
to badly enough.
Ya’ll be safe out there!
Street Smarts: A Guide to a Truck Dri-
ver's Personal Safety
Do not cuss a trucker or a farmer with
your mouth full!
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.satinandsteelsis-
terhood.com
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Thirty-nine drivers com-
peted at Peterbilt Manitoba on Sat-
urday, June 25 for recognition as
one of Manitoba’s top professional
commercial drivers. Drivers in five
classes participated in three differ-
ent tests (written test, pre-trips/de-
fects, and the track) throughout the
of the day.
Winners from the 2011 event in-
clude:
Straight truck: Chad Kitkowski(Canadian Freightways)
Single-single: Brian Hrabarchuk(Con-Way Freight Canada)
Single-tandem: John Klassen(W.M. Dyck & Sons)
Tandem-tandem: HowardMcAfee (H&T Trucking)
Super B train: Ken Wiebe (EBDEnterprises)
These five drivers will rep-
resent Team Manitoba at the 2011
National Professional Truck Driving
Championship, held this year in
Calgary September 8-11.
The event was capped off
with the annual Driver Awards Ban-
quet. All five winners from the driv-
ing championship were recognized
for their efforts. Further awards
presented include:
First Time Entrant: Marc Cohen(Big Freight Systems)
Team Award: TST Overland Ex-press
Grand Champion: Ken Wiebe(EBD Enterprises)
Bjornson Memorial: Ken Wiebe(EBD Enterprises)
As well, the 2011 MTA-
Volvo Trucks Canada Driver of the
Year was awarded. This year’s re-
cipient is William DeGroot of Arnold
Bros. Transport. DeGroot was one
of six recipients of the 2010 MTA-
Custom Truck Sales Inc Industry
Excellence Award. Winners of the
2011 MTA-Volvo Trucks Canada
Driver of the Year award are cho-
sen from this pool of nominees.
The Manitoba Trucking As-
sociation would like to thank all of
the volunteers who ensure the suc-
cess of this annual event. This year,
over 40 volunteers participated in
various capacities. The MTA would
also like to recognize Manitoba
Public Insurance, Manitoba Infra-
structure and Transportation, Peter-
bilt Manitoba Ltd, YRC Reimer and
Beaver Truck Centre for their con-
tinued sponsorship of this event.
The Manitoba TruckingAssociation exists to developand maintain a safe and healthybusiness environment for our in-dustry members.
For more information
contact:
Bob DolyniukExecutive DirectorPhone: (204) 632-6600
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Drivers not out of a sack for your 95cent heart attack!
So many good places and I will tryto always steer you right.
Pictured above is Glorias in Chilli-wack BC where Gloria will make sure you
never leave hungry.
Clearwater BC at Wells Gray Inngreat food at a very good price and Angiesaid the best milkshakes in Canada.
Legendz Diner 1405 N Trans-canadaHwy, Golden, BC a must stop!
OUTPOST Grill in Winkler MB at theCOOP, great food, clean showers and veryDriver Friendly!
The Cat dealer on route 90 & Inksterin WPG MB 2nd Flr, breakfast under 6 bucks
Don’t forget our friends at the Oak-Point Restaurant where August 27th is ourfirst CTM Show & Shine!
Them and tell them Dave sent you!
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