Manitoba’s lack of higher-rated RTAC roads creates irritating highway detours and weight restrictions for farmers, University of Manitoba students told KAP.
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Students push for Manitoba road upgrades
Gaps in Manitoba’s RTAC heavy-haul highway network were highlighted in a recent resolution to Keystone Agriculutural Producers
Province pledges funds to CentrePort Canada
Road upgrades also planned around Inland Port Special Planning Area
The Manitoba government has pledged $450,000 towards projects at inland port CentrePort Canada.
Comment: Semi safety needs a wider scope
A safer trucking industry is more than just driver training
Details are still emerging about the recent collision between a bus carrying seniors and a semi in southern Manitoba. It is now clear that the truck had right of way. However, police have not yet determined cause or potential culpability. What we know for certain is that this is one of the worst road accidents
Loss of Black Sea grain deal not seen as threat to global supplies, for now
Alternate routes exist but would be more expensive
Geneva | Reuters — The end of the Black Sea grain deal would not pose an immediate threat to the world market as Ukraine would still be able to export supplies, although at such a high cost that production in the war-torn country would likely fall even further. Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations
Spring road bans loom across Prairies
Mid-March weight limits pending for heavy trucks
MarketsFarm — The looming spring melt across Western Canada will likely disrupt some grain and livestock movement over the next few weeks, as seasonal spring road restrictions come into effect across the Prairies. Spring road restrictions set axle weight limits for vehicles moving on certain roads to reduce the damage heavier loads can cause during
At an impasse: Potholes, floods and detours
Lack of north-south RTAC routes leaves a chunk of southwest and central Manitoba vulnerable to shipping disruptions, businesses say
Glenboro and Holland, Man. weren’t like their fellow communities to the east in early May. Heavy precipitation in late April had not made them islands, like some towns along the Red River, which had been isolated by flood water. In fact, the area in central Manitoba was one of the first to see producers hit the field, in
Argentina grains truck activity rebounds after strike lifted
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine grains trucking activity has rebounded to near normal levels after a major strike last week, according to transport data and port sources, a relief to exporters in the world’s No. 1 shipper of processed soy and No. 2 for corn. Truckers agreed late last week to end a strike
Empty cabs plague Canada’s trucking sector
There’s just not enough drivers out there to meet the growing demand for trucking
Dramatic protests, originally centred around vaccine mandates for truckers, may have grabbed a lot of recent headlines. But the real problem in trucking has been overlooked. There simply aren’t enough drivers out there, and there haven’t been for years. The trucking sector was already raising the alarm over trucker shortages prior to the pandemic. The
Empty roads a headache for hog producers
Truck drivers are at a premium and that’s a serious problem for the pork sector
There have not been enough trucks on the road to keep the pork sector ticking smoothly, and the Manitoba Pork Council says it is seeing serious impacts. General manager Cam Dahl said that, as well as general transportation disruptions through the sector, there have been issues with trucks at the Canada-U.S. border. “I’m getting reports
Agropur to shed bulk milk handling in Quebec, Nova Scotia
Unnamed buyers to take over Quebec milk runs
Dairy co-operative Agropur is stepping away from hauling farmers’ milk in two of the provinces where it does business. The Quebec company announced Monday it would sell its Quebec bulk milk hauling business to unnamed “companies whose core business is transporting liquid food products,” and would also halt its milk transport work in Nova Scotia.
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