a picture from the Oakpoint inWinnipeg where they reallyknow how to feed us and makeus feel like home.

Below is a family picture Iwas proud to take. If you are inWinnipeg, chances are your deliv-ery will take you to the OakpointHwy, just look for the sign out frontthat states have a cup with Dave.

If I am there or if you seeme on Delivery acrosss Canadaor the USA, be sure to stop meand tell me how you like CTM.

You can’t miss me with thebig moose catcher on the front ofthe vehicle.

In fact last month I madethe rounder with a BFG on theback so I could show driversthis awesome product up close.

The looks and commentswe got was too funny to put in thismagazine. Most people thought itwas permanently mounted.

Dave brings to you 38 years of valuableexperience in transportation, management,business and compliance. Dave has driven inevery condition across North America andoverseas as military, police, company driver toowner operator to now Publisher Editor ofCanadian Trucking Magazine.

I of course had fun withthis telling people I was paranoidabout getting hit so I put a moronmasher on the front and one on theback!

I did feel safe I must saywith that big Volvo BFG on the backfrom anyone rear ending me.That’s a lot of Stainless Steel to hitand it dose not move! Plus 300extra pounds on the back forweight.With this weather might doit every trip.

Please rememberRed Shirt Fridays, where you wearRed to respect our service peopleand thank them every Friday.

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So if you see the CTMvehicle cruising down the roadwith a moron masher on theback, remember it’s just on therewith a trailer hitch to show you!

But yes it sure makesme feel my 6 is covered.

Folks this is CTM’s 4thanniversary Edition and I have tothank you the readers and ofcourse the advertisers that paythe costs to print this for you!

Over the last 4 years wehave met at truck stops, truckshows and had very interestingarticles and opinions in this magof ours.

CTM is styled like a read-ers digest for truckers, smallenough for you to put in your backpocket and keep for reference ifyou need a recovery from Jamie orsome of the great products fromthesource.ca or have decided tomove on and go with one of thecompanies that advertise.

CTM can be read overand over again as the articlesare really stellar and the wordsearch and crossword are builtfrom this magazine and killstime at a dock or truck stop.

Hey all you East Driverswith NB plates saying you arelooking for a new home, checkout AYR Motor this month.

So again I can’t say thisenough, thank-you for the last 4years of readership, I hope youreally enjoy each Edition andkeep a copy with you.

I hope the Holiday sea-son does not leave you sitting tolong and you get some time withfamily and friends.

Those of us that havespent a lifetime on the road inone way or another know that ifwe can’t be where we call ourresidence on Christmas, we areat home on the road with thepeople that make it feel likehome.

That is places like the Oak-point and Huskys and Dennyswhere the staff greets us like familyevery time we walk through thedoor. If you can tip heavy to showyou appreciated them all this year.

2013 will be a great yearfor all of us with tonnage up andmoney starting to loosen up andCTM there for you to read.

Merry Christmas andGod Bless and hope to see yasoon! Dave4

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE 2 HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHERMeans you Have Been Trucking a while eh!

Well the end of the yearis almost here and the winterhas come to the Edmonton areawith a vengeance, the tow truckshave been busy, so busy that Ibarely have time to write any-thing down.

Soon after astorm has passed and the suncomes out the temp. warms up alittle we tend to get a little heaverwith the foot but remember thereis ice in the shadows like a evilcreature ready to gobble you up, so don't let your guard downcompliancy will kill.

Water will melt fromoverpasses and settle underthem where there is usually nosun so watch for that.

Also when your runningthe mountain rock faces andsnow sheds that block the sunwill result in icy patches sowhen you coming into that cor-ner on that nice sunny day withthe cruse on and radio blasting

it happens that sick silence andlife goes into slow motion as youtry to keep the truck and trailerpointing in the right direction.

Sound familiar most ofus have been there, the rest willbe there soon .

I guess any one that hasbeen following my stories prob-ably think by now i don't likecruise control.

That is not the case atall, every thing has a place andtime, you don't use tire chainson dry roads and you don't usecruise in slippery conditions .

I love cruise control,Iwish I had it back when we ranthe winter roads in the NWT. Wewould spend up to 3.5 hrs cross-ing a lake at 35 kmh , and no, thelake ice was not slippery it wasso cold it would be almost sticky.

We would improviseback then and use out thermosbottle wedged on the throttle forcruise or the old style cablethrottle . But all of those camewith there own set of problems.

There is no replacementfor common sense but sense isnot so common some times.Allof the new technology is greatbut it was never intended to re-place us from using our headsnothing is fool proof keep yourhead up and the rubber down.

WINTER TIPS by JAMIE

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For our 4 wheelingfriends out there and rookie OTRdrivers!

Watch to get to close toa trailer in this weather, there isa good chance ice and snow hasbuilt up there and could comedown in the wind or on a turn.

There is no way a truckdriver can get on top of a trailerto clean it off, so common senseagain tells us to stay a safe dis-tance away.

Even these 5 ton deliv-ery vans can have a chunk of icethat will come right through yourwindshield.

If you are driving on thehighway, imagine the problemthat could cause.

As recovery units we areout there in the freezing cold re-cusing vehicles in trouble. It isicy, cold and dark, please slowdown and use caution passing aservice vehicle or any vehicle onthe side of the road.

You never know if a childis going to run out to get in thevehicle or cross the road. That isone accident you never want tolive with!

SLOW DOWN, the LIFEyou save may be a Father,Grandfather, Mother, Grand-mother, Brother, Sister, Friend,for sure someones Child andmay be your OWN !

Don’t spoil Christmasthis year because of stupidity!

Pass this on and save alife!

M e r r yChristmasand aHappy NewYear

JamieIntegra Recoveryinfo@integrarecovery.ca(780) 719-8077

Editors Note: Thanks Jamie for yourdedication and services to the truckingindustry through your service, articlesand support for good causes!I know who to call now! Dave

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First I would liketo start off bywishing every-one a very MerryChristmas and avery Happy NewYear to come.God Bless every-one out thereand keep closein our heartsthose who arealone and need-ing help duringthis holiday sea-son.

Over 1,800 pounds of mari-juana was discovered hidden in a ship-ment of cucumbers that originated fromMexico coming in via tractor-trailer truckNovember 2012.

A 26-year-old man was arrestedwhen during an X-ray of his truck CBP of-ficers discovered 224 bundles of mari-juana co-mingled with the produce. Theentire shipment was processed for drugseizure.

Canada Border ServicesAgency has seized over 54 kilos of sus-pected cocaine at Pearson InternationalAirport during these past few weeks. OnNovember 9, 2012 Officers identified asuspicious suitcase while monitoring abag coming off of a flight in from the Do-minican Republic.

When the suitcase was openedthe officers discovered 15 bricks of sus-pected cocaine. The total approximateweight exceeded 21 kg, with an esti-mated value of over $2.6 million.

On November 11, officers dis-covered 15 bricks, 15.2 kg of suspectedcocaine hidden in the aircraft whilesearching a flight originating from Ja-maica, the estimated value $1.9 million.

November 12, a woman arrivingfrom Trinidad was referred for a customssecondary examination. While inspectingher baggage, CBSA officers say they no-ticed her bag had an unusual bulge un-derneath the interior lining. CBSA officersaid: "The bottom of the suit-case wasprobed and a white powdery substancewas discovered. Subsequent examinationof the traveller's second bag also re-vealed suspected cocaine in a false bot-tom. An approximate total of 18 kg ofsuspected cocaine was seized with an es-timated value exceeding $2.2 million".

Vancouver, British Columbia,December 7, 2012 — CBSA seized ap-proximately 23 kilograms of suspectedcocaine hidden in the trailer of a commer-cial vehicle carrying produce. CBSA offi-cers discovered the drugs on December3, 2012, while searching a commercialtruck and trailer.

During the examination, anom-alies were detected within the wall of thetrailer. The load, produce from California,was fully offloaded, and after officerscarefully inspected the truck and trailer,they made drill holes into the wall of thetrailer. The drill bits hit a white powderand officers discovered 23 cellophane-wrapped bricks of suspected cocaine in-side a void in the wall. The CBSA arrestedthe driver of the truck and turned thedrugs and driver over to the Royal Cana-dian Mounted Police for further investiga-tion.

At the Halifax port borderagents intercepted a shipment of a date-rape drug known as Special K.

This was found in a 20-foot con-tainer with 1,000 bags of rice. CBSA siftedthrough the bags of rice recovering 188kilograms of ketamine. This is the secondtime ketamine has been discovered inthis port. This ketamine, or Special K, wasmixed loosely among the grains of rice; ittook CBSA officers two days to separatethe drug from the rice. This drug is verypowerful leaving the victims of this drugwith a complete lack of body functionability; it is very scary and has potentialfatal effects.

Smuggling never sleeps, even By: Dawn Truell, President,

Cross Border Services

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The container had come fromIndia and was destined for Ontario. The in-vestigation has been turned over to theRCMP; so far one arrest has been made inOntario in connection with the case.

At the Queenston-LewistonBridge en route into Canada, an 18-wheeler was stopped for inspection, thedriver was asked if he had anything to de-clare upon which he replied no that he hadan empty trailer.

The driver appeared to be nerv-ous and would not make eye contact sowas asked to step out of his tractor. Thetruck was sent for secondary inspectionwhere it was X-rayed nothing appeared onX-ray, a drug-sniffing dog was brought inand again didn’t notice anything. Two offi-cers noticed screws on the floor boardshad been tampered with, they removed theboards and found a hidden compartmentstretching across the entire floor, insidethey found 97 bricks of cocaine, more than100 kilos worth an estimated $4.4 million.

The driver was a 31-year-oldfamily man from Brampton, ON who pleadguilty to the charge of conspiracy to ex-port cocaine.

Ecstasy, marijuana and cocaineare the three major drugs smuggled be-tween the U.S. and Canada. Ecstasy andmarijuana travel south, cocaine travelsnorth.

Until about a decade ago, cross-border smuggling was almost always bysea and air. As Mexican drug cartels re-placed Colombian drug lords, cocainesmugglers started using land routes,specifically tractor-trailers to ship drugsfrom Mexico to the U.S. and Canada.

For a while, Vancouver waswhere drugs were transported across

Canada before hitting theToronto area. About sixyears ago, Canadian author-ities determined that theWindsor-Detroit crossingwas the preferred route oftraffickers, although largedrug seizures have alsotaken place at Ontariocrossings such as Sarnia,Fort Erie and Niagara. Wind-sor-Detroit is the busiestborder crossing, where

more than 7,000 trucks cross daily.

Homeland Security in the U.S.and the CBSA would not reveal howmany trucks undergo extensive searchesbut some sources say as few as 200 a day.

The sheer volume of traffic, inthe eyes of traffickers, makes it a riskworth taking, says Richard Pollock, fed-eral prosecutor in Windsor. For every il-legal shipment caught, he estimates 200slip through undetected.

One RCMP official referred tothe drug trade as a continuous “cat andmouse game” as traffickers come upwith more sophisticated means of smug-gling and authorities develop better waysof detecting the illicit cargo.

For further information on aid-ing in the fight against smug-gling, terrorism, C-TPAT, FAST,PIP please contact;

Dawn Truell, President, Cross Border Services,at: www.c-tpat-certified.com dawntruell@c-tpat-certified.com.

Note from Dave here, if you see suspi-cious activity, persons asking you for aride acrosss the border in your truck, aloose lipped driver talking about smug-gling loads of drugs or weapons, do usall a favour and contact authorities. Tryto get as much information as possiblewithout becoming involved and shutthese bad guys down!

BORDER WATCH CALL1.888.502.9060

during this Holiday Season.

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Starting back in the mid 1800’s,dieting, as we now know it started. FromDiet Blog.com: “Historians trace the originsof a modern conception of dieting to two19th century figures: Rev. Sylvester Gra-ham (1795-1851), a New Jersey preacher,and William Banting (1797 - 1878), a Lon-don undertaker.

You may never have heard ofRev. Graham, but chances are that you'll befamiliar with his dieting invention: the Gra-ham cracker.

Perhaps the first diet food, theGraham cracker was made from flour thatwas unsifted and didn't have additives (re-

fined white bread was becoming popularwith the middle-classes during the 19th cen-tury, who could afford to buy it).

Graham saw white bread as nu-tritionally poor, and he and his followers, theGrahamites, eschewed it - again, we cansee the roots of modern diet advice back inthe 19th century. Graham believed in astrict vegetarian and teetotal diet, and sawdiet primarily as a means to control sexualurges.

William Banting, by contrast,was interested in diet for the same rea-son as most dieters today are: hewanted to lose weight. In 1863, he wrotea pamphlet, Letter on Corpulence, Ad-dressed to the Public. His diet plan,based on advice given to him by a doc-tor, featured:Four meals a day, consisting of protein,greens, fruits, and dry wine.Avoiding starch and sugars.Milk, butter and meat were all permitted.”

Since then the diet industry hasgrown into a multi-billion dollar business.Reports abound about the so-calledUSA’s obesity epidemic, one can followthe money trail.

From News Medical .com: “Xavier Pi-Sunyer, who has also received sig-nificant funding from the makers of anti-obe-sity drugs and is currently promotinganti-obesity drug Acomplia made by Sanofi,chaired a key National Institutes of Healthobesity panel, which in 1998 instantly cast30 million Americans into the "overweight"category by changing the government's def-inition. That group includes presently "over-weight" stars like Will Smith, Pierce Brosnan,Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, and even (for-mer)President Bush.”

It has become common forobese people to be stereotyped as lazy,lacking will, unhealthy and other slurs totheir character. In reality, there are manycauses for obesity from genetic/heredityto other medical conditions such asstress and depression.

From DrShop.com: “There doesappear to be at least an association betweenheredity and obesity. In a well-known studyregarding this issue, adults who wereadopted as children were found to havebody weights closer to those of their biolog-ical parents than their adoptive parents, sug-gesting that their genetic makeup had moreinfluence on their body weight (and the inci-dence of obesity) compared to the environ-ment in their adoptive family's home.

A person's risk of developingmorbid obesity is often heavily influ-enced by psychological factors. Bore-dom, depression, anxiety, stress, trauma(whether as an adult or child), and feel-ings of low self-esteem are examples ofpsychological factors that could result inan individual's overeating and under-ex-ercising.

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Holiday Season & Winter = BySandyLong

Weight GainAlthough the psychological

aspect of morbid obesity can be difficultto overcome, it is not impossible. Merelyidentifying the psychological problemscan help an individual greatly in his orher understanding of the basis ofovereating.I illnesses can also lead to morbidobesity. Some of these include hypothy-roidism, Cushing's syndrome, depression,and other neurological problems. The use ofsteroids and certain antidepressants canalso lead to weight gain.”

Another aspect of the currenttrend to think of people as obese is the ex-amples found in the media. From Usato-day.com: “It's not surprising that womenwant to be slender and beautiful, be-cause as a society "we know more aboutwomen who look good than we knowabout women who do good," says Au-drey Brashich, a former teen model andauthor of All Made Up: A Girl's Guide toSeeing Through Celebrity Hype and Cel-ebrating Real Beauty…As a culture, weare on a first-name basis with womenlike Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie," shesays. "The most celebrated, recogniza-ble women today are famous primarilyfor being thin and pretty, while womenwho are actually changing the world re-main comparatively invisible.

Most of us have a harder timenaming women of other accomplishments."The idolizing of models, stars and othercelebrities is not going to change "until popculture changes the women it celebratesand focuses on."

As far as an obese person beingthought lazy, this is patently a false assump-tion. For example, look at the adult Amishwomen who work from dawn to dusk doingmanual, physical chores. Almost all of themare considered medically obese yet workhard.

In relation to trucking, it is seenin the above that there are many job re-

lated factors such asboredom, stress, anxi-ety and low self-esteemthat can enter into adriver not meeting theartificial insuranceheight weight charts.Add in long hours, littlesupport from friendsand/or peers, constantworry about regula-tions that might unfairlyaffect them;

A driver might tend to overeator have a metabolism that promoteshis/her body into turning even healthyfood into fat. In no way can any success-ful driver be thought of as lazy.

The average miles per year fora solo driver are over 125,000 miles ayear and if a driver does not produce,they do not last long as a driver.

By stereotyping a driver, oranyone else for that matter, who may beoverweight, as lazy, unhealthy or not hav-ing will power does not do anything butbuy into the prevalent and sometimes er-roneous media, governmental and dietindustry propaganda. It is nothelping the actual obese person; it ishurting them by adding to their stresslevels and perhaps low self-esteem.

Ya’ll be safe and I wish you peaceand some serenity in your busy lives

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Do not cuss a trucker or a farmerwith your mouth full!

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Here is a shout outto all the Canadian truck-ers running up and downthe roads this December.

Thank you for all thetime you spend taking careof your Rigs, and thecountless hours in the win-ter nights you spend get-ting them loaded andunloaded. Not to mentionthe hours on end youspend crisscrossing thecountry in Canada and theUnited States to deliveryour goods.

Thank you for beingso professional each andeveryday. Seeing to it thatour country's can enjoytheir holidays.

Why do you thinkTim Hortons can serve cof-fee and splendid donuts.

Or why you can goout to the Canadian TireStore and buy your kidssomething fun. Or The gro-cery stores to fill yourhomes with food.

Fuel stations allover Canada and the UScan sell you fuel for your

sleds and ATV's not men-tion your pickup and cars.

So the awesomecrops the farmers haveraised can find their wayaround the world to feed usall.

Yes I think you allshould find a Trucker andthank them for what theydo every day for you. Theywork hard, long and lonelyhours. You depend onthem each day and withoutthem our system as weknow it would completedshut down.

Thank-You Driver

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