Transport committee  Currently, we have about 500 members.

Transport committee  Unfortunately, I don't have exact numbers. I would say roughly 200 would probably be smaller. The balance would be medium. That also includes suppliers, which of course get into corporations as well. Maybe the last, say, 70 to 80 companies are members but are—

Transport committee  We're spread right across the country. However, there is a significant—again, I don't remember the exact numbers off the top of my head. In Ontario, it's a very large number. Alberta is our next largest. Then, British Columbia and Quebec are very similar.

Transport committee  Ontario, I believe, is just a little over 100.

Transport committee  Our best swag right now is that we feel we probably could hit the 650 or so mark. There are still a lot of other small ma and pa shops out there, and other companies and dealers.

Transport committee  It would be pretty close.

Transport committee  One that sticks in my mind is to do with fuel economy and the greenhouse gas issue when we talk about these situations where a working vehicle is having to stand and idle so that it's running equipment—using other technologies, even fuel cells and other types of auxiliary technol

Transport committee  That is an area where Transport Canada and the federal government could step in. It's dealt with at the provincial level, under vehicle weights and dimensions. So it is a provincial requirement. The allowance for the wide-based tires, using singles rather than dual tires, allowin

Transport committee  To be honest, there isn't really anything specific that I can say we need at this time.

Transport committee  As I said, they are members of our association; however, they are primarily in a role as suppliers to our core members, who are those who actually turn those vehicles out—not so much tractors. Tractors typically will come out of the OEM ready to do the job: they will have the fif

Transport committee  That's it exactly, yes.

Transport committee  Most of our activity to date, over the last 15 or 20 years, has been working with Transport Canada and with the provinces on issues of vehicle weights and dimensions, particularly in Ontario, where there is quite a spectrum of vehicle allowances. Then, with Transport Canada there

Transport committee  I wouldn't say the two programs added efficiencies per se. They were more to do with the safety standards, the regulations to do with safety. The first was, as I mentioned, the rear impact guard on trailers, which is a far more demanding, far stronger guard, and therefore a far m

Transport committee  Do they actually manufacture the vehicle itself to use natural gas? No.

Transport committee  No. Those are people I'm going to be talking to, but no.