We are pleased to have built a relationship with the Soldier’s Memorial Hospital, and to be a part of their Emergency Operations Protocols. When the weather gets bad, and staff call in, they are now provided an option for one of our volunteer drivers to pick them up and get them to work.

The Storm Troopers are carefully watching the weather forecasts, and weather models to keep an eye out for major storms that could seriously impact local travel conditions. Once it’s determined that there will likely be a significant impact to safe driving, our team goes on standby, and coordinates with the Emergency Management team at the hospital.

“It’s all about maintaining effective operations at the hospital. Saving lives, and maintaining healthcare at the hospital is what our nurses do best...

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Breakfast Television of CityTV, invited us to join them on their morning show. Of course we said yes! It was great exposure and many new contacts have been made from it.

To watch the whole segment, check out the following link:
https://www.breakfasttelevision.ca/videos/this-organization-helps-gets-healthcare-workers-to-work-during-storms/

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Stranded in your car:

Winter driving isn’t fun and some drivers have a visceral fear of it. Some people feel safe in their skills as a driver, or in their denial, and think that getting stranded in the snow would never happen to them. It’s a scary thought so perhaps ignorance is bliss. It doesn’t matter however, how good of a driver you are…you can still easily find yourself stranded in your vehicle for a long period of time.

In January and February of 2014, North America got absolutely hammered by extreme weather events. Heavy snow, freezing rain, extremely cold temperatures…you name it…we saw it. The ice storm that hit my area, just a month before, resulted in me losing power for three days...

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Nobody likes being pressured about anything in our lives but when it comes to tires there is a fine balance between too much pressure and not enough. How many of us remember our high school chemistry classes to recall that pressure, volume and temperature are all related (Boyle’s Law)? To keep things simple, I’m going to focus on pressure and temperature.

Ask most drivers if tire pressure is important and most will say ‘yes’. Then ask that same person when they last checked their tire’s pressure and most will respond with ‘umms’ and ‘ahhs’ because they simply can’t remember...

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The single most highly engineered part of your vehicle may surprise you…it’s your tires! No seriously…it is. Considering the season, I’m continuing my “Tire Talk” series with Winter Tires. The most common three questions I get asked all the time about winter tires are “How can I tell a Winter Tire from a regular one?”, “Do I really need them?” and “What’s the difference?”

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