Dashcams, Telematics and Your Next Insurance Renewal
If your fleet insurance renewal came in higher this year, you have company. Commercial truck insurance has climbed across Canada for several years ...
Read the article →Straight answers on specs, costs, compliance and fleet planning from 18 years of putting the right truck in the yard.
If your fleet insurance renewal came in higher this year, you have company. Commercial truck insurance has climbed across Canada for several years ...
Read the article →For most of my career, dealers didn't ask whether a medium-duty work truck should be gas or diesel. You bought diesel. Gas engines in that class were ...
Read the article →Once a dealer settles on the right truck, the next question is how to pay for it. I hear three answers. Some owners pay cash because they don't like ...
Read the article →If a building centre loses a good delivery driver, the exit interview usually talks about pay or hours. Sometimes that's the whole story. But I've ...
Read the article →I've had some version of this conversation more times than I can count. A dealer buys a flatbed rated at 19,500 lbs and figures he has close to ...
Read the article →CMHC's August numbers came out this month, and they tell a story most building centre owners already feel in their order books. Canada started homes ...
Read the article →In February of last year, I wrote that the 2027 diesel emissions rules could add $20,000 to $30,000 to the price of a new truck. A lot has happened ...
Read the article →On September 15, Ottawa announced a tax change that every building centre owner thinking about a truck should know about. It's called the ...
Read the article →A medium-duty truck crosses the Canada-U.S. border more times than most of your customers do. The chassis comes out of a plant in the U.S. or Mexico. ...
Read the article →The most common fleet question at Home Hardware Homecoming this year had nothing to do with price. Dealers wanted to know how to get out of their ...
Read the article →At Home Hardware Homecoming in Toronto this month, a dealer stopped by our booth and told me about her binder.
Read the article →I had a call last month with a building centre GM who needed a truck "yesterday." There was one sitting on a dealer's lot two hours away, close ...
Read the article →A Home Hardware dealer in the Prairies called us a while back because he thought he needed another truck.
Read the article →I'll admit something that might sound a little strange coming from someone who sells trucks for a living: sometimes the best solution isn't buying ...
Read the article →Most building centres don’t think much about their trucks until the workload starts exposing weaknesses. At first it’s manageable — an extra trip ...
Read the article →A lot of building supply companies end up making the same costly mistake when it comes to fleet purchases: they buy what’s available instead of ...
Read the article →I’ve spent most of my life in the truck sales business, and at this point, I’m comfortable calling myself a dinosaur. I’ve seen different cycles, ...
Read the article →Fleet performance isn't about size or resources. It's about how deliberate you are with the small decisions, every day. Here's what that looks like ...
Read the article →A paid-off truck is not a cheap truck. That’s one of the most common—and most expensive—misconceptions we see from contractors and building centre ...
Read the article →A Home Hardware dealer in Central Ontario reached out to me in January and right away you could tell he’d been through a few cycles. He explained ...
Read the article →You can learn more in one honest conversation at a trade show than you can from a stack of industry reports.
Read the article →This is our early Christmas Gift to home Building Centers across Canada. Because one Saskatchewan ownership group just discovered they were better ...
Read the article →If you run a Home Building Centre or building-supply operation, you already know your trucks aren’t just a tool — they’re the backbone of your ...
Read the article →About ten years ago, during the Home Hardware summer dealer show in St. Jacobs, something unforgettable happened. We were still building awareness ...
Read the article →Most Home Hardware Store Owners don’t have hours to waste chasing down truck specs, negotiating numbers, and coordinating with multiple vendors. ...
Read the article →In 2010, we got a phone call we never expected — from a building supply owner in Newfoundland who needed trucks fast. That single call ended up ...
Read the article →When you’re running a small-town building centre, every dollar counts. For Manitowaning Mill Home Building Centre on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, that ...
Read the article →After more than forty years in the truck business, you start to see the patterns. Prices rise, demand spikes, everyone scrambles — and then the music ...
Read the article →I stood in a yard just outside Hamilton, Ontario, last fall and watched a driver take four pull-forward-and-reverse moves just to get a 25-foot ...
Read the article →When we first started working with Home Hardware over sixteen years ago, most stores relied on used cube vans coming off lease. They were solid, ...
Read the article →Let’s be honest — most building centre fleets treat tires as a necessary evil. You wait until they’re worn, chunked, or blow out on a delivery, then ...
Read the article →I got a call in March from a yard manager at a Home Hardware in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, asking why his ¾-ton was going through brake jobs ...
Read the article →If you’re running a Home Hardware, Castle, or Timber Mart yard, you’ve probably had this debate more than once: should you run Moffetts, or go ...
Read the article →If you run deliveries for a Home Hardware, Castle, or Timber Mart yard, you already know that every pound matters — not just in payload, but in ...
Read the article →The Ford F-550 flatbed is the unsung hero of Canadian building supply delivery — reliable, powerful, and built for every load from drywall to ...
Read the article →Every building centre owner knows the pain of a truck down on a Friday morning. A missed drywall drop or a delayed roofing delivery can ripple ...
Read the article →Revving Up Efficiency: Ontario's New Digital Inspection Program for Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles
Read the article →Let’s face it — trucks are expensive, margins are tight, and cash flow is king. Whether you’re running a Home Hardware, Castle, or Timber Mart ...
Read the article →A crane rental to set roof trusses runs $600-900 for a half-day, plus the wait time for the operator to show up on your schedule instead of the job ...
Read the article →If you run deliveries for a Home Hardware, Castle, or Timber Mart, you’ve probably heard some chatter about the EPA’s 2027 diesel emissions rules. ...
Read the article →Every Home Building Centre owner or yard manager knows the morning I’m about to describe. It’s early, the weather’s sideways, the crew is waiting, ...
Read the article →If you’ve ever watched one of your trucks sit idle because the flatbed’s out on a job, you already know the pain — tied-up assets, wasted time, and ...
Read the article →Expressing gratitude to our customers for their unwavering support and highlighting our plans for the upcoming year.
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