Insights and Stories on Trucks

Alberta gets farm family class one driver’s license

Apr. 11, 2024 at 4:55 pm CDT

Alberta farmers and their family members now have the option to apply for a farm-restricted class one driver’s licence. It would allow them to drive almost any form of motor vehicle to and from the farm. These licenses with be issued with condition code “P” meaning the driver must comply […]

Ford to keep AM radio, CEO says

May. 26, 2023 at 9:52 pm CDT

By Jonah Grignon

Potential loss of AM radio in vehicles a concern for farmers

May. 18, 2023 at 1:45 am CDT

By Jonah Grignon

GM’s truck production cut signals a turn in U.S. auto sales

Feb. 24, 2023 at 7:46 pm CST

By Ben Klayman Joseph White

Ritchie Bros. raises cash payout in bid for IAA

Jan. 23, 2023 at 4:14 pm CST

By Reuters

Ford, GM upgrade their heavy-duty pickup profit machines

Oct. 1, 2022 at 10:52 pm CDT

Detroit | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday took the wraps off the latest version of its Super Duty pickup, providing a look at how the U.S. automaker will manage one of the biggest challenges confronting Detroit. The problem: How to modernize the largest combustion pickups to keep demand […]

By Joseph White

GM CEO says ‘we are selling every truck we can build’

Jun. 14, 2022 at 12:58 pm CDT

Detroit | Reuters — General Motors CEO Mary Barra said on Monday the automaker is “selling every truck we can build” and expanding North American truck-building capacity, even as U.S. gasoline prices hit record highs. Barra made her comments during the automaker’s annual shareholder meeting. GM is pursuing a two-track […]

By Joseph White

Alberta border blockade expected to disperse Tuesday

Feb. 15, 2022 at 12:48 am CST

Amid reports of violence involving a farm tractor and trucks — and seizures of weapons — the protest blockade that shut Alberta’s busiest U.S. trade corridor is reported to be winding down starting Tuesday. Several media outlets on Monday quoted organizers of the blockade at the Canada-U.S. border crossing at […]

By Dave Bedard

Alberta RCMP to start unclogging major border crossing

Feb. 1, 2022 at 5:29 pm CST

A major supply chain corridor connecting Alberta and the U.S. is expected to be cleared of protestors and reopened to traffic on Tuesday, Alberta RCMP have warned. Protestors in vehicles formed a blockade Saturday on Highway 4 leading to the province’s only 24-hour Canada-U.S. border crossing, at Coutts, Alta., about […]

By Dave Bedard

Feed weekly outlook: Markets facing uncertainty

Jan. 27, 2022 at 9:30 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Feed grain markets in Western Canada are facing some uncertainty amid tight domestic supplies and reports of transportation issues bringing up corn from the United States. “It’s very strange,” said Susanne Leclerc of MarketMaster Ltd. in Alberta. “You see stories like that (reporting on feedlots running low on […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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