Transport committee  No. Vehicle sizes and weights are controlled essentially by the TAC, the Transportation Association of Canada, and the provinces—specifically, really, the provinces, for size and weight dimensions.

Transport committee  Typically, if you want the full length, which is probably most effective, you would reduce your trailer length, which reduces your hauling capacity.

Transport committee  The obstacle is the allowable overall length. Either the allowance has to be broadened to allow for more length to get the optimal situation, or if you want to use that, you end up reducing the size of the trailer—going, say, to a 48-foot trailer and getting the full length that

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  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 a large extent, to do it right.

Transport committee  Again, the federal government and Transport Canada in particular at that table are always asked to provide testing or background information. They always seem to be looking to Transport Canada to provide the okay to use this type of technology. To be honest, I think it's just ste

Transport committee  Essentially, yes.

Transport committee  That is federally regulated from Transport Canada's transportation of dangerous goods directorate.

Transport committee  The work that was done to develop the latest standard, the CSA, has been completed. I'm not sure where it is in the process, to be honest, but it has reached a stumbling block because of the election and a few other things. Meanwhile, other work is coming along; we could have ano