UPDATED: Winter Weights Starting in Manitoba

UPDATE: 2020-2021 Winter Seasonal Weights (WSW) will be allowed starting on Monday, November 23 in Climate Zone 1B (Swan River area). Please be advised that 2020-2021 Winter Seasonal Weights (WSW) will be allowed starting today, Wednesday, November 18 in Climate Zone...

MTA Elects New Board of Directors at 88th AGM

The Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) held its 88th Annual General Meeting today, postponed from April 3. In a first for the association, this year’s meeting was hosted in a hybrid format, meaning some attendees were present in-person and others attended online....

CTA to Industry: Turn Driver Inc Companies Over to CRA Leads Program

Driver Inc. companies are the scourge of the trucking industry. They cheat on taxes, break numerous labour laws and, according to a detailed safety analysis of convicted offenders, many are also unscrupulously unsafe operators. So, then, it shouldn’t come as any...

Truck Electrification an Exciting Opportunity

As our industry continues to be highly focused on the day-to-day concerns related to COVID-19, we have also begun to look to the future of our industry as well. One project that was under development pre-COVID that has come back to the fore during the past few weeks...

Getting Back to Business

Do you remember what your priorities were in February, before COVID-19 became our main focus? At the Manitoba Trucking Association, we identified a few key projects at that time in our newsletter: some LCV program participants weren’t following the program...