Mounties: “We always get our Dolce&Gabbana”

The Scotlyn Longhorn Group knows a thing or two about luring drivers, as they proved at Fergus on the weekend. That’s Jill Whiteside, of Scotlyn’s billing department/customer invoicing department, astride the carrier’s custom-built chopper.
FERGUS, ONT. — Let this serve as a warning. Don’t try to sell any fake Ray-Bans to truckers.
 
   Vendors at the Fergus, Ont., truck show were taken by surprise Friday morning when the RCMP visited retailers at the show and confiscated some counterfeit apparel and T-shirts.
 
   No charges were laid, but warnings were handed out.
 
   A spokesman for the Mounties said that the truck show organizers had requested the visit because some vendors in the 2010 show had complained that competitors had been selling knock-offs.
 
   “We came in Friday morning and did a walk through and we did confiscate some product but nobody was charged; just warned,” a Mountie told todaystrucking.com.
 
   Otherwise, the sun shone hot and bright on the three-day show (in marked contrast to some previous year’s rain-drenched events), which was marked by plenty of prettied-up iron, carriers seeking new blood to stave off the driver shortage, and a great Saturday night concert featuring Grande Prairie, Alberta’s Emerson Drive.
 
 


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