Due to the hardening of the truck insurance market, fleets are now paying close attention to how they can reduce their exposure to losses and protect their operating authorities. Since the fall, truck Insurance rates have been increasing and some fleets are seeing a significant increase or non-renewal. So what’s causing the increase? “The Ontario […]
Healthy Fleet is excited to announce that their next challenge will be ran through a mobile app, which will be available to all companies for free. This new challenge follows the most recent one that took place in January and February of this year, where participants lost a total of 579 pounds. Below is some […]
“Change the way you look at things…and the things you look at will change” – Wayne Dyer This quote has always helped me put things into perspective. Our family recently spent an amazing week in Punta Cana. The resort was brand new, in fact it was so new that it had only been open for 9 […]
Healthy Trucker (a division of NAL Insurance), in partnership with Morneau Shepell, will be launching the first Assistance Program dedicated for Professional Truck Drivers called the Healthy Trucker Assistance Program (HTAP). This new assistance program will help fleets decrease traffic incidents and driver turnover by focusing on reducing major health risks that effect drivers like […]
It’s no secret that the Trucking Industry in North America is facing and long-term, chronic shortage of qualified drivers. The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) set up a Blue Ribbon Task Force to take a good look at some of the key reasons and in their 2012 report the Driver Shortage in Trucking, you’ll find the following […]
The journey began with 14 individuals from the trucking industry who decided to rappel off a 26 storey building in London Ontario. The event, Rope for Hope, is ran by the Make-A-Wish foundation, which raises money to grant wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses. “Our goal in the beginning was to raise $10,000 to fund […]
The next Healthy Fleet Challenge begins May 1st and is set up to break during June and August, to allow participants to take a rest. We see some incredible levels of commitment, and we have found that running a 3-month continuous challenge can be exhausting for participants.” Said Glenn Caldwell, Vice President of Sales at […]
A few years back I was sitting in the living room after watching an old Michael Douglas movie called “Coma” and I said to my wife, “I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens to me, promise me you will just […]
New Year’s, it’s a great time to take another look at things from a different perspective. Hopefully over the holidays you set aside a little downtime for you and your family and took the time to create some new memories that are going to be ones that will last a lifetime. Isn’t it funny, the […]
Every year just before school starts my wife, kids and I head off to the Toronto area for a few days of fun with the kids. The trip always starts off with a stop at the Residence Inn in Mississauga, ON where I just happened to be their first guest when it opened 10 years ago. […]
