Bison

What’s eating Canada’s trucking CEOs?

The TruckNews.com survey about the biggest challenges facing Canadian trucking executives in 2023 is a rich menu of column ideas. In the last issue, I covered two of them—people problems and the cost of dirt. But there’s more on their plate.
Tech, infl…

Trucking executive outlook: Rob Penner, Bison Transport

As 2022 comes to an end, TruckNews.com reached out to several trucking industry executives to ask about the biggest challenge their fleets will face in the coming year, and how they plan to address these issues.
In this instalment, Bison Transport CEO …

Bison spread as Native tribes reclaim stewardship

MATTHEW BROWN The Associated Press

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. — Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from beneath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral where 100 wild bison awaited transfer to the Rosebud Indian Reservati…

Native Americans reclaim stewardship of US bison

(AP) — From South Dakota and Oklahoma to Alaska and Alberta, Indigenous groups in the U.S. and Canada are leading efforts to restore bison across North America.
This comes more than a century after European settlers drove the species to near exti…

Manitoba’s Bison Transport buys another Maine carrier

By the end of the month, Manitoba’s Bison Transport says it will have bought Maine truckload carrier Pottle’s Transportation lock, stock and barrel.
Hermon, Maine-based Pottle’s is a truckload carrier with more than 200 tractors, more than 750 trailers…

Trucking companies build hope by helping construct homes

Trucking companies and suppliers came together recently by donating time, skills, talents, and dollars to help construct homes for Habitat for Humanity – Waterloo Region, Ontario.
Build contributions took place over the course of four days and included…