Mandatory Training for Truckers

[ol goat]

You don’t have to go to Alberta or Ontario or Quebec to see the same thing here. Last year I was passing the northbound pull out on hwy 91 just south of the Alex Fraser bridge and seen two different driver trainer companies with 5-6 people around each truck trailer doing pretrips. First not enough seat belts to fit them unless they double stacked in the seat and bunk and second I can’t see them spending the time necessary there to make sure each and everyone got the info and do a correct check

[dirtybiker]

What I laugh about is the two year investigation to what can be witnessed in two hours any day
of the week from Coast to Coast to Coast.

Like the picture a friend posted of one truck in the ditch during less than ideal conditions with
five guys standing around scratching their heads.
No other vehicles in sight. Hmmmm....rocket surgery to pin point some hard evidence right there.

[YzzzR1]

Oh ya, street fighting 101 ...it's part of your class1 training.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kamloops/ ... ent#401976

I miss Fight Night which was every Friday at Lickman rd truck stop 3-9 pm. I think the last one held was in 2011

Absolutely stupid crazy by both morons. I have a friend named Joe Hiscock. I just texted him to see if he was running truck out of Kamloops now.. Thank god it wasn't.

[dirtybiker]

Add to that. Unsafe conditions can start before the engine is even running.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Part and parcel with the occupation. No go, no pay.

Part of todays problem are the citified folk who only have experience
with bicycles and public transit get a hair brained idea they want to
be a paid tourist and go truckin'

Fools....ummm....dangerous fools !

[dreamon]

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/406890 ... tions-RCMP

Just brutal.

[dirtybiker]

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/406890 ... tions-RCMP

Just brutal.

To be fair, one needs to consider that not every truck was inspected.
Only targeted vehicles get checked.

How many got waved through ?

A total truck/trailer count would give more accurate numbers.
Not just the numbers from the selected targets.

eta; good to get the junk off the road. too bad it didn't get the people well known
for running the junk off the road. Just another day to them.

[dirtybiker]

Well there ya go. Just like throwing chump change.

$43 million dollars worth in the premise of better training.
https://www.trucknews.com/transportatio ... q_ce0GLDOE

The cynic in me thinks a huge chunk of these funds will be pocketed through
scams, TFW and citizenship fast tracking.
About the same as every other licensing mill already out there.

This will have a zero net effect for the small business operator that requires
to hire due to their current drivers aging out.

This is only good for a small handful of mega carriers.

so,
Nothing will change except for the tax burden on the populace.

Just my opinion piece as someone well worn in cruising around the block.

eta; I paid $500.00 to get my license stamped in the very early '80's
Also well versed in engines, transmissions, air systems, and trailers before ever going.

Seems that nowadays people without even the concept of how a toilet works
think they have the skills to properly run a rig.

Pffffft !

[dirtybiker]

More good news.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2023/ ... n-ontario/

Gravel voice dood echoes what I've stated for years. No shortage of drivers,
just a shortage of properly qualified drivers.

Many qualified leave the industry due to the dangers imposed on them by
the un qualified.

What a joke our government agencies have become in allowing such a travesty
to occur on their watch.

The largest employer in about every Nation is the Transportation Industry.
And it is failing large.

[django]

So true, I'm one that's been on and off highway, bush and oilfield you name it for well over twenty years. I sold my equipment a year ago and took a local job as a company driver, happiest I've been in years, local as in I don't need to leave town. I'll probably live longer now too. The company I'm working for is hiring and every driver is one that's been on the highway for many years and are just done with it.
103 hours of training is a joke, 500 isn't enough for a lot of what's driving these days. The days of driver's only needing ten hours to basically be shown a proper pretrip and a few other minor things because they grew up on a farm or around equipment are gone forever.

More good news.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2023/02/28/how-underqualified-truck-drivers-are-earning-their-licence-in-ontario/

Gravel voice dood echoes what I've stated for years. No shortage of drivers,
just a shortage of properly qualified drivers.

Many qualified leave the industry due to the dangers imposed on them by
the un qualified.

What a joke our government agencies have become in allowing such a travesty
to occur on their watch.

The largest employer in about every Nation is the Transportation Industry.
And it is failing large.

[alanjh595]

I had 3ish hours training. What training? I could barely shift gears on a 18 spd and presto here is your class1 and your a pro!
Man up, learn on the job, fake it till ya make it, and figure it out on your own was the attitude of the day.

That is the same it was for me.
I hired a truck and instructor for 6 hours of training (after taking the air brake training classes).

I too walked away with a Class 1.

Never had an accident or ticket. I had a 5&4 trans.

[dirtybiker]

^^^^^ difference being we grew up in Canadian weather, on Canadian roads(fields), running
all forms of equipment, loads, gas, diesel, propane, natural gas, hydraulics, air, and electrical.

Gear boxes, even 2 and 3 gearboxes working in unison, from a very young age.
Leaps and bounds ahead of the the current crop that have slim to no knowledge of any of
the above. Period !

Had a dude who I'd been hauling for, maybe close to 18 months (unlicensed)
pay $500.00 to a license mill in '82. 5 day course. done in three.


Away we go. just shy of 140,000 lbs. B.C. bound and all points north just shy of Alaska.

Never had a trainer ride along. ever.....

Now it requires a couple months of trainer ride along before dingle nuts gets turned loose.
matters not, everything taught gets tossed right out the window!

Such is the way of a braindead society!

[Babba_not_Gump]

More insanity on our highways. Again it's on that death highway #5 north of Kamloops.
This time a couple of truckers took matters into their own hands.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... tid=qC1gEa

[69cutlass]

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-s ... htm#420140

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