When the rubber hits the road Encore and company transition to a greener, carbon free environment. Our thoughts, programs and plans on how to become a more responsible, corporate citizen and planetary resident. Part two of three. Photo Credit: Ryan Divine Let’s move on to the part of our company that actually meets […]
Recently Encore began a journey of understanding and exploring what it means to be a business that promotes and supports Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. We needed to begin by diving into what each of those terms means. Diversity is the range of human differences. Each of us come from a diverse background with our own […]
The Practical Side of Safety. How to build a safety meeting that keeps your people interested yet talks and encourages ‘real’ safety. That is not a throwaway, ease into it, introduction. Platitudes and wordy manuals are the death toll of every safety program. Yet we are surrounded by gov manuals, insurance directives, company policy, […]
Journey to Real Safety It’s a long journey for any company to develop a safety and work culture that can approach the award-winning heights that Encore Trucking has. Let’s set some background. We all have Safety first, Safety programs, and Safety protocols; but there comes a point where you may hit a wall. […]
Safety Starts With Self-Awareness We build risk management into our daily work, but real safety leadership has to come from a personal level. Our people, their engagement, awareness, and continued involvement are vital to our safety program. We have no magic wand to change the world, but we do have control within our lives, […]
Jimmy Wabick started his journey in trucking while growing up on the family farm in Manitoba. He drove farm trucks and large machinery and grew to understand the equipment inside and out. When he turned 18, Jimmy left the farm and took a summer job working on a paving crew in Saskatchewan hauling asphalt. He […]
Mark Dundas – AMTA Safety Person of the Year! Encore’s safety record, since Mark has been involved, tells the only story necessary to award this honor to a truly gifted safety person. He knows how to communicate, to prioritize, to enforce, train, educate, cajole, discipline and somehow get our young people, and old dogs to […]
A big thank you to all of our employees who provide photos for our monthly photo contest. Each month we collect photos from the field and in our office from our employees and draw a name at random to select a winner. Please view this month’s entrants.
Knowing how to approach a site visit and a bid process is critical to Encore’s success. You have to do it in a manner that will ensure you have a chance to win, or at the very least, to gain the respect of all parties. And ultimately that respect is probably more important than the […]
The right tool for the right job is an old idiom that has more prevalence in today’s world. The install picture of that crane is definitely a unique job. If you look at the angle UP, and the length of that jib; one of the hardest parts of those jobs is getting that long awkward […]
We were presented with another problem to be solved, we called this one The Bus Wash Enigma. NETG project; The new bus barn off Yellowhead and Fort Road by the big smokestack. Another Problem Presents Itself We were contacted by a major construction company and were asked to help their supplier. They had several fiberglass […]
Become part of our team and work alongside the most experienced picker operators in the province. Encore Trucking is currently looking for TRACTOR DRIVERS with Winch Truck Experience. Duties of all Operators All operators have a responsibility to inspect and maintain their truck and trailers, fill out the applicable internal paperwork, as well as appropriate […]