Take some responsibility please

[TASFarms]

"He doesn't know what his next steps will be"... guaranteed a new #d company is being established, and current company being financially gutted. Apply for new safety fitness certificate, register with IFTA, swap the plates and voila, you're back into decks.

Makes one wonder how times that has happened already. Company name doesn't match the owners name? So many questions

[Quadtrack]

There is so much truth to this whole thread.
I loaded alongside a driver up at Meadow Lake OSB who would not shut his truck off indoors b c it was losing air so quickly the pump was just keeping up. The whole outfit looked rough and not sure his name was Singh, but very likely. And where was his load going? Vancouver. No regard for public or personal safety.
Immigrant drivers have taken over the SuperB deck business. It’s hard work. I did it for ten winters. But at what risk to everyone else on the road when drivers from another country, where it doesn’t snow, where a three ton body job is a big truck, come here get a 1A and with no experience start towing 63.5 tonnes around the country? It’s a recipe for disaster and last Friday illustrated that even if, by some reason no one has yet pointed out, it was not completely the truck driver at fault.
Is more training an answer? Possibly. Driving a loaded truck as part of the 1A training would be a start. Maybe another level of license to pull supers. Maybe some length of time driving with a supervisor in the other seat once you get the license. There has to be something that comes of this.

[Happytrails]

We all know that there is a segment of truck drivers who push the limits beyond safe operation of the 60+ ton, 600 HP implements of potential mass destruction that they operate. If this guy doesn't go to jail the message is there are no consequences for truckers driving dangerously.

[edl]

My hired man is from Mexico had only been in Canada for a month and SGI let him transfer his lic from there to here. That is very wrong as we in Canada have no clue as to his real driving qualifications and this needs to change. Retest everyone from out of country period.

[Oliver88]

It’s absolutely pathetic that this trucking company is trying to make this about them. This guy is a low life weasel to complain about his business challenges. His driver made no attempt to stop or even slow down at a stop sign with flashing lights.....and his name hasn’t been released yet.

16 lives were ended and 13 injured, several still critically injured due to his bad hire.

Time to take some responsibility.

[biglentil]

It’s absolutely pathetic that this trucking company is trying to make this about them. This guy is a low life weasel to complain about his business challenges. His driver made no attempt to stop or even slow down at a stop sign with flashing lights.....and his name hasn’t been released yet.

16 lives were ended and 13 injured, several still critically injured due to his bad hire.

Time to take some responsibility.

+1 its beyond disgusting

[sumdumguy]

Gonna be the devil’s advocate, it wasn’t the owner who blew the stop sign. It sounded in the interview like he just hired and trained this un-named 30 year-old new immigrant. Now after the most horrific accident in our memory, he has been calling him for 3 days and no answer. But he isn’t calling him in jail, is he? Is this “catch and release” common practice? Seems when a family was killed north of S’toon, the next day her (the driver who hit them) name was made public and we knew everything about her, charges were laid and most likely her passport was frozen. Maybe I am dum and daft but something doesn’t seem the same in this case. Gormley said today the RCMP better turn her up a notch. It is very unfair to the grieving families and public in my opinion.

[Ache4Acres]

That owner wasn’t the driver but he knows that his driver that he personally hired less than a month ago was unexperienced and he killed 16 young lives and permanently affected many others.

But the owner has no right to cry about his life being changed. He is the captain in his company and a good captain goes down with the ship.

I hope the RCMP gets cracking soon.

[Klause]

My hired man is from Mexico had only been in Canada for a month and SGI let him transfer his lic from there to here. That is very wrong as we in Canada have no clue as to his real driving qualifications and this needs to change. Retest everyone from out of country period.

Yet my truck driving friend from Holland, where they have a REAL apprenticeship program for truck drivers had to redo his license here.


He said it was an utter joke. And now knows why people can't drive here..

[grassfarmer]

Two accidents near Virden, MB this morning. First driver charged going too fast was Asif Mehmood. Second driver was Gurjeet Kang. Almost killed a prominent Medora area family.

Also, Delta Driving School in Calgary, driving instructor Jaswant Singh, issued hundreds of fraudulent Class 1 licences. Encouraged students to cheat. Charged after a long investigation.

Fine them big then throw the assholes out of Canada for good.

To be fair Braveheart the Delta case was back in 2005 and the people that got licenses as a result were tracked down and re-tested apparently.

[shtferbrains]

The thing I always hated the most about new drivers was they used the brakes like they were driving a car.

They could burn off a new set of brakes in weeks and you always had to be on them about setting them up. Sometimes without proper training they would wind them off instead of setting them up.

Can be a big problem on occasional use like farm.

Check those brakes.

[helmsdale]

That owner wasn’t the driver but he knows that his driver that he personally hired less than a month ago was unexperienced and he killed 16 young lives and permanently affected many others.

But the owner has no right to cry about his life being changed. He is the captain in his company and a good captain goes down with the ship.

I hope the RCMP gets cracking soon.

First trucking boss i had used to always say it was easy to find "two feet with a heartbeat" to put behind the seat... Qualified drivers are truly diamonds in the rough these days.