Octavian Lacatusu digs in for a four month internship at Today's Trucking.

TORONTO — Meet Octavian Lacatusu, one of Canada’s most promising automotive journalists.

Lacatusu, a certifiable car nut and gifted writer, is a recent graduate of Toronto’s Centennial College Journalism program.

On October 1st, he joined Newcom Business Media’s editorial staff on a temporary basis through a program sponsored by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors (CSME). Newcom is the company that owns this website, Today’s Trucking Magazine, Canadian Technician as well as Plumbing&HVAC.

Lacatusu will be helping out all three of Newcom's magazine, working with four different editors, until the end of this year.

"One of CSME's main roles in the magazine industry is promoting career development," says Allan Britnell, president of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, "and what better way to do that than to help a young editor get some on the job experience?"

Here’s what Lacatusu has to say after two weeks on the job:

“There hasn't been a single day in which I didn't learn something new, and unlike the old days of college, the work environment here feels alive, pulsating almost — it makes me feel I'm ready to roll in any direction."

Watch for his byline here and in other Newcom publications.

Lacatusu was born in Romania and migrated to Canada with his parents in 1998. He also has a penchant for building vehicles out of Legos; check out the Ferrari below (he's working on this Lego Peterbilt logging truck right now).

He can be reached at octavian@newcom.ca