Pearson Dunn Insurance relocates head office

STONEY CREEK, Ont. -- Pearson Dunn Insurance has announced the opening of its new head office at 435 McNeilly Rd., in Stoney Creek, Ont.

The company says the new location was chosen because it's easy to access from Hamilton and the surrounding area.

"Our move reiterates our commitment to calling Hamilton home, while serving clients throughout Southern Ontario," the company announced.

The company also announced the opening of a new Hamilton Mountain branch, located at 2247 Rymal Road East. The branch will serve customers based in the Hamilton Mountain, Binbrook, Glanbrook and Stoney Creek communities, Pearson Dunn announced.

Meanwhile, the Ancaster office was relocated to 259 Wilson Street.

Pearsonn Dunn Insurance is a full-service insurance brokerage, operating a business division that specializes in several industries including transportation. In 2008, the company was purchased by George McCarter, president and CEO, who committed to continuing the company under its existing name.

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National Truck League celebrates opening of new Mississauga office

LONDON, Ont. -- National Truck League has expanded its operations with the addition of a new office location in Mississauga, Ont. The insurance provider invited staff, customers and even Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion to its grand opening event Oct. 22.

Company president Rod Stiller says the new office will operate as an extension of its London head office with a full line of products and services, including WSIB alternative, health, commercial, home and automobile insurance.

"[Our clients] called us and they have been asking, 'Can you provide home and automobile insurance?'" Stiller told Truck News at the event. "Now we have the companies to do that and new expertise to do that."

Part of that expertise comes in the form of Jas Sahota and Charlie Singh, a husband and wife team that have been selling home and auto insurance in for about 12 years.

"Many of our clients have indicated they want to be protected by one brokerage," said Sahota, who serves as office manager at the new location. "We are providing our clients with that opportunity. We want to look after all their protection needs."

Stiller says the location was strategically selected to meet the needs of National Truck League's South Asian customer base.

"With this Mississauga office we are reaching out to our Toronto and GTA clients and to the South Asian community which is a big part of our customer base. Just to be accessible, to be able to help you, to list and to provide the information and the service that is required from this industry and this community," Stiller told the crowd during the ribbon-cutting. "We are very excited to be in this community and we hope that over time we will be able to bring jobs to this community."

The new office is located at 2980 Drew Road in the city's Malton area. For more information, visit www.nationaltruckleague.com.

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National Truck League to open new Mississauga office

LONDON, Ont. -- National Truck League will be hosting the grand opening of its new Mississauga office this Saturday. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion is scheduled to officially open the facility, located at 2980 Drew Road, at 10 a.m., with festivities concluding at 4 p.m.

Officials say the new office will operate as an extension of its London head office with a full line of products and services, including WSIB alternative, health, commercial, home and automobile insurance.

"This office represents not only a new location, but also the evolution of our holistic approach to insurance solutions for our clients," said Rod Stiller, president of National Truck League. "Our insurance solutions now will include home and auto insurance for our clients to ensure they are properly protected."

"Many of our clients have indicated they want to be protected by one brokerage," said office manager Jas Sahota. "We are providing our clients with that opportunity. We want to look after all their protection needs."

National Truck League is partnering with the Malton Mississauga East Food Bank at the grand opening. Attendees are asked to bring a canned or non-perishable food item for a chance to win a prize.

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We really don’t need the post office…

Let me follow-up on my piece yesterday regarding our failure to create a paperless work environment. I just took a brief walk out my front door to open my mailbox and see what the postman had delivered. Let’s see – there is something called “The Flyer” that claims to contain the best local values – a 32 page advertisement that I would never look at, don’t need and always throw in the garbage. A waste of a good tree. Too bad I don’t own a bird in a cage. Next item is a large glossy advertisement telling me all about Verizon Fios. Don’t care – garbage. If I wanted to switch cable companies, I would have researched my best available options online.

There are “Hot” car deals from yet another annoying car dealership. Coupons from Harbor Tools – known for their junk from China. I say buy USA – Craftsman. Another advertisement asking me to “lock in” a price for one year with Direct TV and another large color piece of wasted paper offering to save me $25 on any 4 tire purchase. Don’t need any of it. There is a post card from someplace called the Learning Connection “We produce results!” – voted #1 best tutoring service 6 years in a row. It’s addressed to my wife – a teacher. Finally a letter – actually a form letter that could have been sent to my son via e-mail – it would have received more attention that way. It didn’t look “real”. Nothing for me. Yesterday’s “mail” was similar. This is what the US Postal Service does with 218,000 vehicles – the largest vehicle fleet in the world – and 583,908 workers – working 6 days a week, year round except on Federal (not taken off by normal workers) holiday’s.

Today, it was reported in The Wall St. Journal “Postal officials say the agency, an independent arm of the federal government that is supported mostly by postal fees, has no choice but to downsize as people increasingly click on their computers to communicate and pay bills rather than drop letters in the mailbox. Despite cutting $12 billion in labor costs over the past four years, the postal service expects to face a deficit of between $8 billion and $9 billion in fiscal year 2011, and recently maxed out its $15 billion line of credit with the federal government.”

Based on what I see in the mail, 99% of it is utterly unnecessary – the other 1% can be e-mailed. Parcels and packages can be shipped by FEDEX or UPS. My wife and I have our power bill automatically paid on line every month, yet, the utility still feels the need to stuff an envelope with a statement and pages of dumb suggestions how to save energy and reduce our bill. I don’t know anyone that reads it. In the garbage it goes. State Farm, our insurance company loves to mail us more stuff that we never read. All we need is our car insurance card and we can print that out. Since we’ve been customers of State Farm for over 20 years, all that information should be imbedded on/in our driver licenses. All that data is already on-line with the department of motor vehicles for the State. No paper is really necessary.

Receiving a greeting or Christmas card is quite nice every once in a while, but there are hundreds of services that will e-mail you a nice on-line “card” with music playing and a “celebrity” telling you how special you are, for about the same price as a “real” card with the postage. On-line, you get instant service, so you can sent it right now. You can’t do that with the post office. Groupon and other coupon services sends me whatever coupons I need to my phone. Many times, when I go to the supermarket, the coupon is POP or point of purchase. I might try a different mustard because there is a $.25 cents off coupon next to it attached to the shelf. No need for the post office.

I’m racking my brain here. Why do we need the post office? The answer is we don’t. Racing doesn’t need NASCAR, to go to Mars we don’t need NASA, truck drivers don’t need the ATA and the post office is a concept whose time has long since passed. It’s just another bureaucratic excuse that stands in the way of our society going paperless.

PS/ WSJ’s Jennifer Levitz reports the U.S. Postal Service is expected to announce that nearly 3,700 post offices, mostly in small towns, will be shuttered as first-class mail business has dropped by 28% since 2007. The link to the piece is here USPO/WSJ/LOTR

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