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By Jim Park COVER PHOTO: By Elizabeth Bate 54 Bulk Buyer The race for a new generation of Daseke is shopping for specialized flatbed workers begins in the classroom. carriers – especially if they’re not for sale By John G. Smith For more visit www.todaystrucking.com NOVEMBER 2017 3 We are Mack. This is our Anthem. Introducing Anthem, the next-generation highway truck from Mack. Born of the American spirit, Anthem comes standard with a bold design that delivers serious aerodynamics, and a new interior that keeps drivers comfortable and productive. See how Anthem is built to move your business forward. MackTrucks.com/NewAnthem Letters Road trains should be considered The Business Magazine of Canada’s Trucking Industry PUBLISHER Re: Talking Tech (September 2017) Lockwood Joe Glionna By Rolf Lockwood [email protected] • 416/614-5805 A 4% return on fuel (through platooning) seems like a Talking Tech VICE PRESIDENT, EDITORIAL precious small amount. And as far as autonomous vehi- Is autonomy understood? Is platooning as Rolf Lockwood, MCILT cles, why aren’t we just doing road trains? We could have good as some say? There are questions. [email protected] • 416/614-5825 he word “autonomous” is everywhere I look, and if I T believed the hype I’d think that human control of cars – and trucks not long afterwards – is soon to be a thing of the past. Frankly, I’m getting a little tired of it all. could be as short as one to two years. Yes indeed, it’s a sexy technology, and yes, some forms of reduced air turbulence between the two tractor-trailers operat Fuel savings come from electric motors on every other trailer axle, to increase autonomous driving will find their way into trucking before ing 40 to 50 feet apart. EDITOR long. Who knows when? Not me, but it won’t be tomorrow for The original vision, as I understood it, suggested that as many - the mainstream freight business. Not so, not by a long stretch. as 10 trucks could be platooned, limited only by the strength of At the user level, I fear that the whole autonomous the radio signal connecting the vehicles. And that vision also John G. Smith phenomenon is poorly understood, and in a long conversation suggested that random trucks could join an existing rolling over dinner recently, I found that a veteran OEM engineer platoon if they “asked” by electronic means and determined our braking capacity while boosting our fuel economy. agrees with me. First off, in only very rare circumstances are that destinations were compatible. A commercial connection [email protected] • 416/614-5812 we talking about actual autonomy – that is, with no driver At the user level, present. It’s already happening in mines and in some agricultural between trucks was also envi applications, and it’s likely to happen in container ports on very I fear that the sioned, namely that the lead- prescribed routes soon. Like 10 years. rig – which enjoys a smaller Everywhere else we’re talking “semi-autonomous”, meaning a whole autonomous fuel saving – could be paid by There would be marshalling yards outside every major driver is in there – or even two as is presently required in Nevada the others. ASSOCIATE EDITOR and some parts of Germany, the two jurisdictions that allow it. phenomenon is As things stand now, none Jobs will not be lost any time soon. of this is practical anywhere The technology component is easy, for the most part, but poorly understood except on smooth and easy Elizabeth Bate not the social and regulatory sides of it all. That challenge takes highways, in good weather center for splitting and building these configurations. complexity to new heights. same fleet, and even then it’s not goingwith a to pair happen of trucks terribly from soon. the Last-mile deliveries are a different story, and there we already The biggest downside, which nobody talks about, is the fate of [email protected] • 416/614-5828 see the start of jobs being lost to drones. But that’s a different the poor driver in the second truck. These are not autonomous kettle of techno-fish. trucks, remember, so all following trucks will need a driver. How My engineering friend and I also talked about platooning, and on earth do you keep that poor bugger awake? both of us registered a little skepticism there, too. At best I think One big cloud over all this fancy wizardry – autonomy, we’ll see two-truck platoons in the nearish future, and not too platooning, and such – is that it’s essentially limited to 80,000- near, though I once thought we would. I’m not sure the pound vans being hauled down clean highways. Talk to loggers — James Churchill in northern Ontario, guys hauling to and from remote mines CONTRIBUTORS: are sufficiently large enough to justify the expense and the hassle, though a “confidence report” from the Northe the American in Saskatchewan,skatchewa people supplying all manner of things in the ugh a confidence ghreport” to justify from the Northexpense Ameri and benefits n, people supp g to and from remote min Council on FreFreight Efficiency last year begs to differ. Oil Patch, and you know what you’ll hear. the lying all mann es ight Efficiency There’s just no value to thithis stuff in the erouter of things reaches in theof Steve Bouchard, Mike McCarron, A two-truck plplatoon would last save year about beg 4% in fuel comparedcan to a pair of rigs runningatoon separately,would sa the reports to says, differ. and payback our country. ve about 4% in TT s stuff in the fuel compared outer reaches of Powell River, BC report says, and payback Rolf Lockwood is vice-president, editorial, at Newcom Business Media. Jim Park, Nicolas Trépanier You can reach him at 416-614-5416-614-5825 or at Newcom Busi 825 or ness Media. rolf@[email protected] king.com. TT September 2017.indd 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 DESIGN / LAYOUT 9 Tim Norton, Frank Scatozza [email protected] • 416/614-5818 CB and VHF radios are valuable SALES AND MARKETING CONSULTANT Anthony Buttino Trucking is not like it used to be because no one uses the CB anymore. [email protected] • 416/458-0103 One night, coming back from Edmonton, a car hauler passed me. I tried to warn him SALES AND MARKETING CONSULTANT about a ramp that was coming, but there was no response. Another time, a truck had Nickisha Rashid [email protected] • 416/614-5824 sparks coming under his trailer and I tried to warn him. Again, no response. He was on QUÉBEC ACCOUNTS MANAGER his own. Denis Arsenault [email protected] • 514/947-7228 I can’t tell you how many times a CB and VHF helped me out. Set up the CB so you CIRCULATION MANAGER don’t have to look at the radio. Grab the mic and talk. You never know who is on the Pat Glionna 416/614-2200 • 416/614-8861 (fax) other end. PRODUCTION MANAGER — Richard Lemonde Lilianna Kantor [email protected] • 416/614-5815 Linden, Alberta Kenneth R. Wilson Email: Award Winner Trucks run faster than [email protected] mandated limits Re: Ontario had a conflict in study (October 2017) NEWCOM BUSINESS MEDIA INC. I concur with a comment made by Kerry Smart of Saskatoon 451 Attwell Dr., Toronto, ON M9W 5C4 SEND YOUR 416/614-2200 • 416/614-8861 (fax) in your Letters section. The study completed by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation showing there has been a 73% LETTERS TO: CHAIRMAN AND FOUNDER Newcom Jim Glionna decrease in speed-related collisions, since the advent of speed PRESIDENT limiters (105 kilometers per hour) for trucks in Ontario, has Business Media, Joe Glionna to be flawed.