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 they reach the point where pulling someone else’s trailer is costing them money, and the question becomes which trailer to buy. […]

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 difference is not inflation in the ordinary sense. It is tariffs and emissions costs stacking on top of a base […]

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 unit will earn money for you over the next five years. The spec sheet does — but only if you know how […]

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 compliance cost, all somehow at the same time. You looked at your own cost sheet, sharpened your pencil, and still came in higher. […]

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 truck in 2023, 2024, or most of 2025, you took less for it than you wanted. If you bought one, […]

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 four months of winter runs has soaked into every weld, every brake line, every bolt that connects the cab to […]

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 factory, and the window to do something about it is closing faster than most owner-operators realize. Here […]

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 there in the mornings, but the volume is not what it was. Booking sheets aren’t filling out the way they used to. Owner-operators who used […]

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 roadside check. This 2025 guide distills what you actually need for CVI (Commercial Vehicle Inspection), registration/insurance, daily trip inspections, and winter chain season—plus a simple, […]

How to keep turns up when vessels bunch, gates fill, and rail cutoffs loom. Peak season around the Port of Vancouver is a game of minutes: a vessel arrives early, a rail window tightens, and a perfectly planned day turns into detention, storage, or a missed cutoff. 2025 is especially unforgiving because volumes are up […]