Truck Buying Insights for Canadian Building Centres

Fewer Houses, More Apartments: What That Means for Your Delivery Fleet

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 ...

The 2027 Emissions Rules: What's Changed Since I Last Wrote About Them

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 ...

Write Off Your Next Delivery Truck in Year One: What the New Federal Deduction Means for Building Centres

On September 15, Ottawa announced a tax change that every building centre owner thinking about a truck should know about. It's called the ...

What Tariffs Are Doing to the Price of Your Next Truck

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. ...

Same Truck, Different Licence: How Provincial Rules Should Shape Your Fleet

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 ...

The Maintenance Binder: Why One Dealer Took Ownership Over Her Fleets Maintenance Schedule

At Home Hardware Homecoming in Toronto this month, a dealer stopped by our booth and told me about her binder.

Why Some Building Centres Are Skipping the Lot and Building Custom Instead

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 ...

What Ford's Latest Production Numbers Could Mean for Building Supply Dealers

Top 7 Flatbed Trucks for Canadian Building Suppliers

A Home Hardware dealer in the Prairies called us a while back because he thought he needed another truck.