The long road:Holland's Carriers has evolved to survive in a changing industry

摘要

At a time when truck manufacturers such as Freightlinerare introducing self-driving tractor-trailers to highways in the United States, the Atlantic provinces' wood transport sector has reached its own crossroad. Moving the industry forward is challenging the creativity of trucking contractors and theircustomers.Holland's Carriers Ltd., in New Germany. N.S.. is an example of a company that has gone the distance. It started out in the early 1960s as a one-man operation, with Pearlie Harris Holland hauling gravel and wood in a live-ton International. It has sincegrown into a substantial logging and transport business, owning approximately $4 million worth of equipment, including three processors, two forwarders, a feller-buncher. and 24 trucks. Pearlie's sons David. Glenwood, and Brenton now run the company, which employs upwards of 20 people at times.