Transport committee  The company operates out of 22 locations with head operations in Edmonton, Alberta. Ten of these locations have full service maintenance repair facilities for truck/tractor, tanker trailers, and other bulk product trailers. We also operate a 160-million-litre tank farm in Yellowk

Transport committee  We have two of those facilities, the newest one being in Calgary, Alberta, which was built about three years ago and became fully operational two years ago. It's state of the art. It has all the Scully protections for loading into trucks, so it's a rail-to-truck transload. We pri

Transport committee  They are not today. Today we have excess capacity in our Calgary facility. The one in Trail, B.C., primarily transloads both acid and then dry fertilized products. It is a truck-to-rail transload, and it's the same thing, with all the required safety precautions, monitoring, and

Transport committee  The biggest impact we see is that growth may be slowed slightly, based on the current fuel prices. What we expect to see is slower growth on the upstream side of the market. We expect to see a slight increase on our retail markets as people potentially start to drive further dist

Transport committee  Our thinking is we certainly concur with Mr. Warnock. We're certainly active members in the AMTA and the CTA as well. So, we certainly concur with a lot of their thoughts. We have taken a little bit more of a proactive approach in regard to recruiting professional drivers into o

Transport committee  I'll speak specifically for the work that we do in the regions we operate in, the oil patch, and the customers we serve. A three- to five-year view is what we often talk about with them. They expect that even as there are more pipelines and they do their full lines, which reduce

Transport committee  How does it work? I think that's key. Comparing ourselves to rail is really not an accurate comparison, based on a 100-car train versus one trailer. Primarily we're hauling 35,000 litres of product, give or take, in our oil patch operations.

Transport committee  Sometimes it's a little more; sometimes it's a little less.

Transport committee  If there's a spill, the first key is first response. Get there and get it contained to limit your liability. Then working with local authorities, devise a plan to remediate the area very quickly. Fortunately, we've been successful in doing that, and we've have had very few issues

Transport committee  We follow a very standard process. For liability coverage, insurance, depending on specific contracts, we'll have anywhere from $5 million to a much larger number in underwriting protection, and I would say that for all carriers our size.

Transport committee  From our perspective, we feel it's very well controlled by moving product by truck. As mentioned, specific to our oil patch operations, we operate in a radius of 75 miles. It's from the wellhead to rail yard or wellhead to pipeline, so it's very well controlled. I couldn't speak

Transport committee  We will not be able to move the volumes long distances and be able to provide as efficient a service as rail or pipeline. Our place in the oil patch is definitely shorter haul.

Transport committee  It would not be efficient. You think about some of the rail or pipeline movements today. Rail is going from western Canada to Saint John, New Brunswick, and that's just not feasible by truck.

Transport committee  It would be more feasible, but there are still economies of scale. A rail or a pipeline that distance certainly makes more sense from an economy of scale perspective.

Transport committee  The driving simulators? We had them custom made for our operation.