Dave brings to you 38 years of valuable experience in transportation, management, business 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.
Volvo on the front cover again! I don’t know if it is because my mom is a swede or because I love them so much! The hood ornament is nice too! My friend Terry just bought a 2011 770 to put on with Fastrax and it looks great. I am jealous! Not only does he have the mothership of trucking but the leather Beaver Truck Sales jacket. Hey if you are heading down to Beaver to buy a new or used truck, make sure to mention Dave should get one of those jackets for all the great coverage, at least a freezer jacket. Beaver in case you did not know won the 2011 Canadian Dealer of the Year Award for Volvo NA. That my friends is be-
cause of you and the way you have been respected by Beaver as more than just a customer. Have you noticed the new look to CTM in this and the January Editions. I have received a ton of feedback and everyone likes the new look. I will be heading down to MATS the Mid American Truck show in March to sport our new looks. The MATS is the worlds largest truck show and if you are in Kentucky the 23rd of March be sure to take it in. If you spend 3 days at the show I bet you still don’t see everything. Last year over 70,000 of trucking industry people walked through the gates. I can fill the magazine just talking about it, so just meet me there. 3
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The Best part about truck shows and hand delivery of CTM is getting to see my extended family on the road. The other week-end I was lucky enough to bump into a load of you at the Roadking in Calgary for the opening of the Fastrax office there. In Edmonton and Calgary is where you can find me staying on the road delivering the magazine. They feel like home when I walk through the doors. I enjoy some wobbly pops in the lounge area with old friends. The rooms are clean and priced right. Back to the magazine you will find more stories in future editions but still the great ones from Dawn and Sandy. I enjoy the wisdom of the road Sandy puts in every
story and Dawn has amazing border facts. This month she names a Winnipeg guy accused of a crime to turn truckers stomacks. It is amazing a person involved in those criminal acts would have it on thier computer crossing borders. I guess criminals are idiots! I have had my laptop checked about 9 times in the last 20 years of having a laptop. Customs checks for porn and illegal software, if you have either on it you are in for a long stay. My good friend Aubrey Packham from AYR Motor express is on page 6 & 7. you can find Aubrey and I at the Oakpoint restaurant eating home cooked meals or up for breakfast at the CAT second floor. Two great places with great Value. If not there watch for me on the trail or at the Calgary RoadKing with Fazal the Fastrax Recruiter in his new digs there. Happy Trails....... Dave
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that information to planning and make sure that the trip you are provided can be accomplished.
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Customer Service is what AYR Motor strives to excel at everyday. The link between Driver's and Dispatch is what allows us to provide the service customers need.
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Our dispatch system is divided into three teams, each team responsible for 200 trucks. Drivers are assigned their own dispatcher, allowing them to become comfortable with who they are talking to, and build a bond between driver and dispatcher. If you need to be home for a certain date, let your dispatcher know, and he will work as hard as he or she can to make sure the job is done. If you are running low on hours, drivers will relay
All tractors come equipped with PeopleNet Satellite system to allow for an easier form of communication between driver and dispatch. Each morning driver's are required to check-in before 10am with the previous day's hours of service, via satellite. Throughout the day, your dispatcher will monitor your progress, ensuring that you are on schedule for pick up and delivery. If for some reason you are running behind, dispatch will contact the customer to let them know you are delayed, and relay that to you. As soon as you signal that you are unloaded, dispatch will send your re-load information, and provide directions to your next location.
At AYR Motor we take pride in our employees, and value the importance driver's play in our success.
The performance of driver's does not go unnoticed. Drivers are rewarded for their safety on the road, years of service, and overall performance throughout the year. With the new terminal in Winnipeg right on Oak Point Hwy, take the time out to see what AYR Motor can do for you.
What our Canadian Central Intelligence has to say about drug smuggling today
By: Dawn Truell, President, Cross Border Services
Recently while chatting with a few of our Countries protectors, Central Intelligence Officers, I was discussing the amount of drug smuggling that goes on crossing our borders in and out of Canada, trying to get a clearer picture of just how much of this truly goes on and to what extent, I was amazed with the response I received. We hear very little in the news about drug smuggling, we here about highway accidents, weather, disputes and violence around the world, but one of the number one problems here in Canada is drug smuggling. Every week at border points just between the U.S.A. and Ontario, Canada there are approximately 40 drug seizures and that is just in the Trucking Industry! That’s not counting personal vehicles, ocean freight and air transit. I found it shocking news because here in Canada we think that we are almost immune to this behaviour as we are such a quiet, beautiful, peace keeping nation, yet here in Ontario alone we are one of the leaders in North America for drug smuggling! That is really scary! Here’s some news for you on recent drug seizures:
January 26, 2012 - The Canada Border Services Agency seized 28 kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of $3.5 million at the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick. January 7, Erisha Erickson from Rochester, New York attempted to enter Canada by bus at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie. During a routine examination with the assistance of a detector dog handler and his dog KC, border services officers examined a bag containing food in Erickson's possession. Hidden in food items, officers discovered a quantity of suspected narcotics including marihuana, psilocybin and oxycodone. Erickson was charged with three counts of importing under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. January 11, Jason Terry of Winnipeg attempted to enter Canada at the Peace Bridge when referred for secondary inspection; Border Services Officers discovered a laptop computer in the cab of his truck containing sexually suggestive images that appeared to be child pornography. CBSA's criminal investigators attended and charged Terry under the Customs Act with attempting to smuggle, possession of illegally imported goods, and non-report of goods. The Niagara Regional Police Service was contacted and laid further charges under the Criminal Code. January 12, Wayne Allen Thorn of Montana arrived at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Edward seeking entry into Canada, upon secondary examination; Border Services Officers discovered a loaded handgun in the vehicle. Thorn was charged with three counts under the Customs Act includ-9
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ing smuggling, failure to report goods upon importation to Canada, and willfully evading or attempting to evade compliance with any provision, and two counts under the Criminal Code including unauthorized possession of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle. Jan. 13, 2012 - The RCMP's Greater Toronto Area Synthetic Drug Operations have charged three men for their role in smuggling 400 kgs of Ketamine into Canada through the Port of Montreal. January 5, 2012, three males were arrested after they picked up the shipment of Ketamine from a commercial warehouse. A fourth male was arrested on January 6, 2012. Subsequently three persons were charged with Conspiracy to Import and Importing a Controlled Substance into Canada. December 22, 2011 - The Canada Border Services Agency seized five kilograms of heroin at the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an estimated street value of $2 million. CBSA officers with the use of x-ray technology, examined 772 cardboard boxes containing various food products and household goods, heroin was found hidden in plastic bags of flour balls within smaller sealed clear plastic bags. November 29, 2011, Port of MontrĂŠal, CBSA officers seized 310 kilograms of cocaine concealed in sunflower oil bottles. The street value is estimated at $14 million. October 14, 2011, CBSA officers working at the international postal facility in MontrĂŠal intercepted a shipment from Peru destined to a Calgary address. The parcel contained 12 bags of coffee, but upon further examination officers found some coffee bags that contained packages of cocaine. A total
of 961 grams of cocaine were concealed inside the shipmen October 25, 2011, CBSA officers in Calgary examined a courier shipment from the United Kingdom destined to an address in Brooks, Alberta. The shipment was declared as eight kilograms of green tea. Officers found four bags all containing dried leaf and stem fragments. The material was later identified as khat. A total of eight kilograms were seized. November 9, 2011, CBSA officers in Calgary examined a courier shipment from Texas destined to an Edmonton address. The package was declared as ornaments, frames and books. Upon examination of the package, officers found various souvenir items. Further examination revealed cocaine concealed within picture frames, books, serving trays and napkin holders, totaling two kilograms in weight. During a 5 month period last year alone, April-September 2011, just in the Southern Ontario region border crossings there were 492 drug seizures valued at $8,079,483, including over $6.7 million of cocaine and over $1.1 million of MDMA (ecstasy), 499 alcoholic beverage seizures (4,607 litres) valued at $109,424, 199 tobacco seizures valued at $123,395, including 1,306 cartons of cigarettes, 38 currency seizures valued at $716,888, 980 conveyance seizures, including aircrafts, boats and campers.
If you have information about suspicious cross-border activity, please contact the Canada Border Services Agency Border Watch Toll-free Line at 1-888-502-9060. For further information please contact Dawn Truell, President, Cross Border Services, at: www.crossborderservices.org, crossborderservices@cogeco.net.
Hair Follicle Drug Testing By Sandy Long
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There has been a debate going on among trucking companies for several years over whether hair follicle drug testing should be adapted industry wide instead of the usual urine testing. Some companies such as Schneider and CREngland have adapted hair follicle testing as pre-employment and random testing policy. Hair follicle testing allows testing for drug use for up to a year previously though the trucking industry says it will only test back 90 days. To do the test, anyone trained to do so may take 50 to 120 strands of hair, preferably from the head but other body hair will work also, and then seal those hairs into an envelope and send it to the laboratory for testing. The follicle test is thought of as more accurate than urine testing being able to detect substances dating back 1 month for every 1/2 inch of hair tested. Drugs tested for by federal mandate are Cocaine (Cocaine and Benzoylecgonine), Marijuana, Opiates (Codeine, Morphine and 6Monacteyl Morphine), Methamp h e t a m i n e (Methamphetamine/Amphetamine & Ecstasy), and Phencyclidine (PCP). These five drug classes are mandated for testing by the Federal Government. A few of the reasons stated for adapting hair follicle testing over the common urine testing
are that the company can see drug use further back in a person’s history, the hair can be collected at the business instead of an employee going to the clinic thereby saving time and productivity, and increased highway safety. A few people are concerned about urine testing due to hygiene concerns where they may urinate on their hands while using the cup and not able to wash their hands until they return to the lab. In June of 2011, Gordon Klemp, president of the National Transportation Institute (NTI) said that carriers who have adopted hair follicle testing have had a 10% increase in applicants failing the hair follicle test though they passed the urine test. Klemp went on to say that in his opinion, hair follicle testing would also lead to a further driver shortage. “Roughly 25 percent of the driver work force has exited the industry during the past 10 years as a result of demographic and health issues, Klemp said. The NTI, which Klemp founded 16 years ago, conducts periodic studies of truck driver availability, compensation, and turnover, among other topics.� Urine testing for drugs costs approximately $40 a test, hair follicle testing costs approximately $150.00.
There are drawbacks to hair follicle testing. If a root is attached to the hair collected, DNA on the person may be obtained. According to Drug Testing Network.com, hair tests provide "nearly twice the number of positives as urine testing," but they are not infallible because "after a drug is used, it takes about 7-10 days for the hair containing the drug to grow out of the scalp enough to be cut. Therefore, the hair test will not include drugs used in the week prior to the test." False returns can occur, According to a U.S. Army study, the amount of secondhand cannabis smoke needed to cause a false positive result (failure) is quite large indeed, and would require being sealed in an unventilated car or small room filled with marijuana smokers for several hours. Hair testing however is a different matter, particularly with passive exposure to crack/cocaine, which can deposit onto hair and be readily incorporated into it. Though for cannabis, typically only metabolites (produced by the body and thus not found in smoke) are tested rather than THC, so failure is unlikely to result from non-extreme passive exposure. From EHow.com: “Medical research described in the publication titled "Drug Testing In Hair" reveals a potential bias that appears to be inherent in hair-follicle testing. According to these findings, hair belonging to people of Caucasian ancestry, particularly blond hair,
does not retain drug metabolites as well as that belonging to people of other ancestries. Such findings open the possibility of future litigation as the previous drug practices of non-Caucasians would be detectable and punishable for longer periods of time.” While drug testing has been around since Ronald Reagan enacted drug testing in the workplace laws for safety related employees such as airline pilots and truck drivers and will continue to be done in pre-employment and random scenarios, drug testing has spread throughout industry and business. Many feel that drug testing is invasive and goes into a person’s private lives too far. It is a moot point, illegal drug use is just that, illegal, it does not matter how a person is found out; though I would rather pee in a cup rather than lose 50 to 120 strands of hair each time my name came up. Ya’ll be safe and I wish you peace and some serenity in your busy lives.
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www.albertamissingpersons.ca Amber Alyssa TUCCARO
20 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 155cm; 5’1” Weight: 65kg; 143 lbs Hair Colour: Black Eye Colour: Brown
Date Last Seen: August 18 , 2010 Place Last Seen: Near the Nisku Place Motel, Nisku, Alberta File# 20101010799 RCMP Leduc Detachment (780-980-7200) Information: TUCCARO was last known to be in Nisku, Alberta. She has not been heard from since. th
Peter Kory BUTLER
22 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 188cm; 6’2” Weight: 86kg; 190 lbs Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Brown
Date Last Seen: March 15, 2008 Place Last Seen: Riders Nightclub, Whitecourt, Alberta File# 2008312401 RCMP Whitecourt Detachment (780-778-5454) Information: BUTLER was last seen in the early morning hours leaving Riders Nightclub. He has not been seen or heard from since.
Stephanie STEWART
70 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 157cm; 5’2” Weight: 48kg; 105 lbs Hair Colour: Grey Eye Colour: Blue
th Date Last Seen: August 25 , 2006 Place Last Seen: Athabasca Fire Lookout near Hinton, Alberta File# 2006-1025177 RCMP Edson Major Crimes (780-723-8838) Information: STEWART was reported missing on the morning of August 26th while on duty at the Fire Lookout. Extensive searches were conducted however STEWART has not been located.
Dustin Ryan MCMILLAN
23 Years old at time of disappearance Height: 177cm; 5’10” Weight: 75kg; 165 lbs Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Blue
th Date Last Seen: September 30 , 2010 Place Last Seen: Edmonton, Alberta File# 11-006932 Edmonton Police Service (780-423-4567) Information: MCMILLAN reportedly left Edmonton on September 30th and was last known to be around the Manitoba/Ontario border. He has not been heard from since.
Any information in regards to any missing person you are asked to please call the investigating agency at the numbers provided or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2-2 TIPS (8477).