If there's one thing Terry Bergan, president of Saskatoon-based International Road Dynamics, has learned doing business abroad for the past 20 years, it's that you can never tell what's going to happen next. Like the time IRD built the weigh-station technology for a toll road just outside the teeming Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Government officials claimed that IRD's system was failing to flag overweight vehicles, and threatened to have the company employee who was overseeing the project arrested if he attempted to leave the country.
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