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Once again, the Daily Bread Food Bank hosted its food sort chal- lenge to get major corporations involved in tackling hunger.
Held at Daily Bread’s head office in Etobicoke, 20 teams and more than 200 people took part in the two-day long corporate Food Sort Challenge in early November.
In total, 42,000 lbs of food was sorted; food which was then distrib- uted to food banks all across the city of Toronto.
Teams were tasked to sort and package donated food within a 1.5-hour period. Correctly pack- aging food – while checking for
Drivewyze to bring scale bypass to Ontario
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Drivewyze has announced it’s bring- ing its weigh station bypass plat- form to Ontario.
It will offer bypasses at 32 Ontario scales by the end of the year, the company told Truck News at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhi- bition in late October. Ontario marks the company’s second Cana- dian province – it currently offers bypasses at 31 sites in Alberta.
It also recently added 21 weigh sta- tions in Oregon to its network. It is also adding more resellers, recently including Isaac Instruments and Orbcomm. Fleets using the telemat- ics systems of Drivewyze resellers can subscribe through them, or can download a standalone Drivewyze Android app. There is a Canada-only rate, as well as a bundle covering U.S. and Canadian weigh stations.
Doug Johnson, vice-president of marketing for Drivewyze, said the Ontario rollout would begin with a pilot project sometime in November – barring delays.
“We are working towards a pilot in November, and we will definitely be active by the end of the year. We move as fast as our partner agencies will,” he said.
Johnson said fleets save an aver- age of US$9.31 when they bypass a scale, based on data derived from 12 million site visits. He also said there’s a safety benefit, as drivers get warnings of an upcoming scale two miles in advance.
“The drivers love it,” Johnson said. “A lot of carriers are offering this as an incentive, they advertise it as a perk.” TN
crushed or open cans – was part of the challenge. Any team who failed to do so faced penalties.
Day two featured members of Trucks for Change – a not-for- profit organization that donates truck space to charities seeking to ship food and goods. All Trucks for Change teams gave it their all, but Tandet and Kriska Transportation tied for first place as the day two winners. TN
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*Sales Representative Cushman & Wakefield ULC, Brokerage 2018
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