Most owner-operators buy their truck before they buy their trailer. They run for a year on broker loads, pulling whatever shows up — sometimes a dry van, sometimes a reefer, sometimes a flat. Then...
A new Class 8 sleeper that cost $170,000 USD eighteen months ago costs around $190,000 to $200,000 today, and is projected to cost $230,000 by the time it rolls off a 2027 production line. The...
The first truck most owner-operators ever buy gets bought on year, make, mileage, and price. By the second truck, they have learned that those four numbers tell you almost nothing about whether the...
Every carrier in Canada that runs a clean operation has, at some point, lost a freight bid to a competitor whose numbers don’t make sense. Lower fuel, lower insurance, lower wages, lower...
For three years, the used Class 8 market has been a buyer’s market. Inventory was high, prices were soft, dealers were stacking trucks in back lots hoping the cycle would turn. If you sold a...
Spring in the Lower Mainland is a strange season for a working truck. The freezing rain has mostly stopped, but the Coquihalla is still throwing surprises into May. The road salt that built up over...
The 2027 model year is no longer a distant problem on a regulatory calendar. It is now the single most important number on the spec sheet of every new Class 8 truck rolling out of a North American...
If you’ve been running freight through Pacific Highway, Sumas, or the Aldergrove crossing this winter, you don’t need a report to tell you something has shifted. The lineups are still...
If your fleet runs trailers and intermodal chassis in B.C., staying buttoned-up on inspections and paperwork isn’t optional—it’s the difference between clean turns and costly downtime at a scale or...