''Today’s Trucking'' is a Canadian

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for the heavy duty

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. The magazine is based in

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, Canada.

History and profile

''Today's Trucking'' was founded in 1987 by Jim Glionna, Rolf Lockwood, Phil Knox, Tony Hohenadel and Wilson Smith. The magazine's current Editor-In-Chief, as of 2016, is John G. Smith. Today’s Trucking is published monthly. The magazine was a bi-monthly publication (issued once every two months) until April 1988 when it became a monthly publication. Until 2011, the

used to be delivered to subscribers only and it had around 29 000 subscribers. But as of 2011, ''Today’s Trucking'' replaced a sister magazine called ''Highway Star'' in truck stops. About 40 000 Highway Star magazines were delivered to truck stops across Canada until the magazine was discontinued in 2011. Its last issue was August 2011. As of 2012, ''Today’s Trucking'' was delivered to

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across

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as well as by subscription. In total, 54 000 magazines were distributed across Canada. ''Today's Trucking'' is owned by Newcom Media, which also owns ''Truck News'', ''Truck West'', ''Truck Tech'', ''Truck & Trailer'', ''Transport Routier'', ''Plumbing & HVAC'' and ''Cars'', as well as three trucking expositions: Truck World, Expocam and Vocational Truck & Equipment Expo. In 2012, ''Today’s Trucking'' won the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME) award for Trade Magazine of the year. Truck Writers of North America (TWNA) presented founding editor, Rolf Lockwood, with the TWNA lifetime achievement award.

Staff

*Founding editor: Rolf Rockwood *Editor: Peter Carter (July 2004 – 2016)(2004)
Peter Carter Named Editor Of Today's Trucking
" ''Today's Trucking'' *Editor: John G. Smith (2016–Present)

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External links

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