Here we come, prying into your personal lives again. This time, we're curious to know how you're doing financially and where you plan to be in the future. Staying in trucking, ready to retire, bailing for greener pastures, or putting up until something better comes your way? We hope you won't mind sharing this bit of information with us, and we'll put it to good use. Promise.
There's room at the end for personal comments if you'd care to add any, and be assured, we'll keep all the personal information safe and we don't share it with anyone.
Click here to take the survey.
Cabotage
Rules |
| The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) describes what Canadian drivers can and cannot
do while operating in the United States.
Click to download PDF |
Cargo Securement Driver's Handbook |
The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has
produced a driver's handbook to assist in understanding and
compliance with the North American Cargo Securement Standard.
Download your copy here. |
CLICK HERE to Nominate someone for the
2009 HighwaySTAR of the Year Award!
Drivers, Take a Bow
The 2008 Canadian Special Olympics convoys raised $103,000 to help some very special athletes fulfill their dreams.
Life and Family
Pandora's ECM
Ontario's new speed limiter law gives inspectors open access to hundreds of vehicle settings and parameters, as well as historic trip and operational data.
Doing Your Job
Good Show!
Americans by the millions are tuning in to "Ice Road Truckers," and getting a lasting impression of Canada's North.
Careers
|
 |
[Oct. 5/08]
Most of you will have heard about SCR by now, but there's still more than a little mystery to Selective Catalytic Reduction -- that's the NOx reduction strategy of choice for five out of the six North American heavy-duty engine makers going into two thousand and ten. At this point, SCR looks like a good news story overall. It's a proven technology. It's widely used by most of the heavy-duty engine makers in Europe and it's been in service there for more than five years, but it's not all rosy. And there will be some extra chassis weight involved, maybe up to 400 lbs. And that's on top of the weight we added going into 2007. That will be an issue for the truck makers to solve, or maybe the EPA and the DOT will finally come to their senses and grant these new EPA 2007 and 2010 trucks a thousand pounds of latitude on the steer and drive axles. And it will cost more, of course; probably in a range similar to what we saw going into 2007. But this time around the extra cost comes is widely expected to come with a payback: improved fuel economy. To drivers, SCR will be all but transparent, and that's good news. Hardly anymore manual regen events, and nothing else to worry about, save for keeping the diesel exhaust tank full. At roughly 200 miles to a gallon, that shouldn't prove to be a serious challenge either. To find out all you need to know about this emerging emissions reduction strategy, check out my latest edition of Truck Talk. Just click on the Truck Talk icon to the right, and listen to Dave McKenna of Mack Trucks and I discuss SCR.
Jim Park |
|
|
