Take some responsibility please

[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.

[MBgrower]

MB govt tried to address this growing problem, but were called racist. So I guess its better to be politically correct and let anyone drive a 60 ton truck:

https://globalnews.ca/news/3799350/sikh-truck-drivers-alleging-racial-discrimination-by-manitoba-public-insurance/ https://globalnews.ca/news/3799350/sikh-truck-drivers-alleging-racial-discrimination-by-manitoba-public-insurance/

[Braveheart]

Getting real sick of the race card being played. Now Seiks don't need to wear motorcycle helmets. There's a new bike gang in town called "Sons of 7/11".

[ajl]

The race card is the trump card so it will be played a lot in Canuckistan. Seriously though, nobody want to pay truck drivers so we will have to get used to this. Never a shortage of help, always a shortage of cheap help. I don't want to do it myself and with a recent sleep apnea diagnosis, falling asleep behind the wheel is a real concern for me.

[Dylan]

Not the time or place

It's been just under a week since this happened, so maybe lay off the politics and comments about race until the victims are at least laid to rest for God sakes! Some of your comments on here a truly disgusting. You're actually upset cause the owner of the company said this affected his life? Wow! Should have have said he doesn't give a ****? Would that make him better?
Here's an article, POSTED BY A WHITE, BORN AMD BRED CANADIAN TRUCKER, I think many of you could learn from him. (Not saying his opinion matters more cause he's white, just saying that based on some of your words, some of you appear to think that way)

We as professional drivers know and understand that what we do has a enormous responsibility, more so than any other vehicles on the highways. Every morning either it be driving up to our trucks or getting out of the bunks we need to Pretrip our trucks, our trailers, and our freight, this includes checking tire pressures, brakes, fluids, proper load securement, are among a few of the numerous things.
Hopefully we got to say goodbye to our significant others and kids in person that morning or week or month. We don't know when exactly we will be home next, or if we will even make it home.
We know that with out us on the roads the economic juggernaut of North America will come to a screetching hault. With out us your grocery shelves are empty, your fuel tanks are empty, let alone having a car to put the fuel in, there would be no Christmas trees, no x boxes for Sally or Tommy, no medical supplies to treat the sick and injured, no natural gas to heat our homes, or oil to make anything.
We are a mixed bunch of men and women comming from every faith, nationallity, and race but we are out there for one reason, the same as you.... To provide for our families.
We go out on the roads when it is raining, snowing, no matter what it is, the load has to be there, hopefully you work for a company like I do who values the saftey of the driver above the load. We've had to pull out over 80 feet of truck and trailer onto roads where you can not see what is comming at you because of growth, road builds, and yes the worst can be just the setting sun.
We have federal laws that say we can only drive so many hours a day and so many hours a week, we have mandated breaks, sleep breaks and after every 70 hours of work we need to rest for 36 hours before we go again.
The tragedy that happend to the men and woman on the charter bus of the Humboldt Broncos was not what that driver had in his journey management for the day. Don't hang the driver because he was too young and careless, too old or complacent or (as I heard tonight) because he was a east Indian. If he was an East Indian, or black or white, he is my brother of the wheel, and I know he has to live with that fateful 10 seconds for the rest of his life and we were not there, we were not behind that wheel, we can not judge that is not our job, that will be the job of the police and transportation board. Our job as Saskatchewanians and Canadians is to help pick up the pieces, to hold the families close and to let them know that they will never be alone, we are with them always and those young men and women will always be with us.
#humboldtstrong #judgenot #saskatchewanstrong

[wmoebis]

I have said for a long time that NON perishable and NON time sensitive goods should be back on the rail. There is more trucks and bigger trucks, than most of our roads were designed for. I know that this case has other issues but if peat moss, lumber, cars, fuel etc weren't even on the road it would make the highways safer. Upgrade RR infrastructure to make it work.

[bucket]

I have said for a long time that NON perishable and NON time sensitive goods should be back on the rail. There is more trucks and bigger trucks, than most of our roads were designed for. I know that this case has other issues but if peat moss, lumber, cars, fuel etc weren't even on the road it would make the highways safer. Upgrade RR infrastructure to make it work.

Good point ....what is the hurry to get peat moss to Calgary?

There looks to be a rail line not 100 yards from the accident scene.....50 years ago would a load like this be on rail or truck?


There is an incredible lack of responsibility for this tragic accident....

Highway department saying there is enough traffic to justify strips or the thickness isn't great enough for them.....excuses....should have been there after the last 6 died there.....

I know I shouldn't say much yet but it's the highways have their spokesman out talking already....thinking they are full of shit....

2 billion for a ring road but no money to make intersections safer??