On September 20, 21, and 22, Trucks For Change Network (T4C) member carriers in the Kitchener-Waterloo region will devote their skills and their time to making affordable housing in their community a reality. Teams of employees from Liberty Linehaul, MacKinnon Transport, Mill Creek Motor Freight, TransPro, Bison Transport, Erb Transport, Midland [...]

Trucks For Change Network and the Ontario Trucking Association are working closely with Canadian Red Cross to identify and fulfill needs for the transportation of emergency supplies to the Fort McMurray region. The fire that has devastated the Fort McMurray area is a rapidly shifting disaster that has driven tens of thousands of Canadians from their [...]

The Ontario Trucking Association and Prostate Cancer Canada have once again joined forces to raise awareness and donations in the fight against prostate cancer. In front of two beautiful plaid-printed tractor-trailers at the Truck World show in Toronto, Rocco Rossi, CEO Prostate Cancer Canada, and dozens of trucking company operators kicked-off the [...]

Within a trucking industry already well-known for giving back to its communities, Trailer Wizards is setting the bar even higher. The leader in the Canadian trailer rental and leasing business announced this week that it is expanding its partnership with trucking industry non-profit Trucks For Change Network (T4C), becoming T4C’s first ever [...]

On November 18th, T4C’s first ever Food Sort Challenge Trucks was held at Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank. Teams from seven different carriers and industry trades “competed” by each packing 3,000 pounds of donated food for the food bank as quickly and accurately as possible. Food donations were checked for expiry dates and sorted in appropriate [...]

Each year, 850,000 Canadians rely on food banks, 300,000 of them children. This November and December will offer the Canadian trucking industry yet another opportunity to show its commitment to its communities across the country in T4C’s first ever “Rolling Over Hunger” campaign. The campaign features food collection drives, transportation donations, [...]

For Rob and Julie Tanguay, owners of Peterborough-based EG Gray Transportation, it was a no-brainer. When they heard that employees of PepsiCo had organized a food sorting event in conjunction with PepsiCo’s major food funding donation to Food Banks Canada, they wasted no time getting involved. So on September 22, a sparkling EG Gray tractor and 53’ [...]

Executives from across the trucking industry and from many of Canada’s leading charity organizations were treated to a spirited panel discussion at Trucks For Change Network’s 3rd annual Partner Luncheon on November 19 in Oakville Ontario. The discussion topic was entitled “Building Win-Win Giving Partnerships”, and focused on how companies can [...]

Like any busy organization in our industry, there’s a good chance your dock, office, shop or yard contains usable articles you just haven’t gotten around to moving out. Things like surplus office furniture, unclaimed freight, shop equipment, or even surplus vehicles, trailers, or containers. The holiday season is a great time to clean house, head into [...]

At Truck World 2014 in Toronto on April 10, 11, and 12 in Toronto, Trucks For Change Network joined hands with many of its member carriers and industry partners to fight hunger by supporting Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank. Through our raffle and our "Loonies For Leads" fundraiser,  cash donations to Daily Bread totalled $2,500.00!  In addition, many [...]