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TRUCKING PREDICTIONS 2008

First prediction is Quebec will be the first to pass speed limiter laws dealing with trucks.Ontario Trucking Association was the first to table this issue,but have been silent on the issue lately.This silence is due partly over driver concerns that we should all be paid hourly if this passes!But Quebec will pass it and try and force it on everybody else!I predict U.S. ow/op will refuse loads going into the P.Q.over this issue.Fuel prices will continue to spike forcing a rate hike,but it is unlikely that big companies and load brokers will pass these hikes down the food chain!Hopefuly ow/op company drivers will wake up in 2008 and demand higher rates and hourly wages if we all stuck together for 5 DAYS we could crash the North American economy,We are the most powerful workforce in North America.GM,FORD or Chysler go on strike governments kiss their collective butts to get them to the table.Just think if every truck driver in North America shut down for five days?THE SKYS FALLING,I CAN&#

RECENT BILLING FROM 407

I recently received another bill from the 407,usualy its file 13 garbage,but this one was marked 'IMPORTANT"so I opened it inside was a form to dispute a 407 bill.THIS FORM CLEARLY STATED IF IT WAS FILLED OUT AND RETURNED TO THE 407 AND THEY FAIL TO REPLY WITHIN THIRTY DAYS THE BILL IS NULL AND VOID!I filled it out and clearly marked disputed along with a letter requesting an image of the plate used.So I will wait the thirty days and see what happpens.But watch your mail for this form!I notice from the comments on my blog that some of you are receiving calls from the 407 collection agencies which are annoying.One tactic I used to end those calls was to use two phone lines once the collection agency phones phone them back repeatedly for half an hour(use redial)it jams their lines and literaly drives them nuts!I haven"t received a call from NOR-DON since in fact they:ve kicked my bill back to the 407!

Speedlimiters & Ontario

There is a big debate about speedlimiters here in North America,my stand on the issue is simple.Any driver four wheeler,eighteen wheeler or two wheeler who cannot control their driving behaviour should have a court mandated speed limiter.Let me explain this futher the courts here in Ontario can order an igintion interlock system for convicted impaired drivers,so why not impose court orderd speed limiter on drivers convicted of three speeding convictions over a certain threshold?The Ontario Trucking Ass.,Challenger Motor Freight and Kriska Transportation have all stood on a soap box and told everybody the benefits of speed limiters,what they have failed to tell everybody is the real effect it will have on drivers/ow/op wages.They are paid by the mile simple,in the perfect world a truck traveling from Montreal to Windsor at 62 mph with no stops the driver is making barrels of cash!Well what happens if the driver runs into a road closure at Port Hope due to an accident and sits there for