I quit the long haul trucking 11 yrs ago. I seen what the new drivers were like, and could see what was coming. The new drivers care not for anyone on the highway but them selves. While the older drivers cared about everyone on the highway. And back in the years gone by, a driver out in the lonely roads and/ or highways stopped to help other people in trouble. In a lot of cases it amounted to the safety of the stranded. I know I did countless times. Even when it was cutting into my days time, and sometimes at a cost to me. But I have been on the receiving end a few times. I doubt if you'll see much of that today.
Yes. Truckers were road angels on our isolated, black ice-ridden, wretchedly inadequate highways. Say what you want about Hitler, but he built the autobahns and someone in the USA built the Interstate Toll Roads. As usual the colonial brain addled incompetent appointees of the British Colony called Canada have built shit. Especially lately.
THOSE truckers were finally stabbed in the back in Oddawa a winter or two ago by the turd Trudeau and his dwarf Minister of Everything Nasty and Bad - the Ukro-Nazi Chrystia Freeland. Her grandfather got the Bandera gene it seems but not the Hitler gene. It remains to be seen which was worse.
I went on a road trip through the Alberta/BC Rockies with my friend after high school graduation, I was not even 18 yet. My dad told me if we had any issues on the highway.. especially through the nasty part near Golden, to trust a trucker..they’d help you out.
Now they try and run me off the road.
I have never seen so many trucks that blow engines going through the passes.
I know a guy who works on the road crew on the Coquihalla. He has to force them to chain up. Often doing it for them because they don’t know how or refuse to do it..
That's not hard to believe, I seen that 25 years ago' or so. On time on the hiway 1 in south western Saskatchewan, there were a group of four or five trucks who were blocking the hiway and refused to chain up. It was snowing and blowing. They didn't even have chains. The police said there was over 20 miles of traffic stopped. We sat there until morning, when the police ordered tow trucks to tow them away. Glad I had my bunk.
It started (I believe) in Canada..with Pierre Trudeau..grooming Justin for years..involving him with socialist world leaders..undermining all public institutions of society..holding private meetings (WEF) with all world leaders..and..here we are..on the bring of civil war..bastards!!..
Extract from the “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars”, book written by William Cooper, x-Army Naval Intelligence Officer. Those aware and wise know what’s happening because it's here now.
In the mid ‘70s, Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington recommended that democracy and economic development be discarded as outdated ideas. He co-authored a book Crises In Democracy, "We have come to recognize that there are potential desirable limits to economic growth. There are also potentially desirable limits to the indefinite extension of political democracy. A government which lacks authority will have little ability short of cataclysmic crisis to impose on its people the sacrifices which may be necessary."
Milford, now 54, was one of 42 contract workers for Syncrude on a bus headed to Edmonton from Fort McMurray when a semi truck slammed into the driver’s side, killing six and injuring 30 in May 2005 on Highway 28. Three died on scene, while three died later in hospital.he suits blame truck driver Inderjit Singh Virk, from Brampton, Ont., and allege his company and the Ontario company that owned the truck failed to maintain its brakes
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On April 6, 2018, 15 people were killed and 13 were injured when a northbound coach bus struck a westbound semi-trailer truck that blew through a stop sign near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of the truck had failed to yield at a flashing stop sign at the intersection of Saskatchewan Highways 35 and 335 while driving at a speed of approximately 100 km/h (62 mph). Most of the deceased and injured were players from the Humboldt Broncos, a junior ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, which plays in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL).The truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has applied to have his permanent resident status returned. The Immigration and Refugee Board issued a deportation order in May for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu and his permanent resident status was revoked
..These examples above shows how long this has been going on..and the Syncrude crash hit me personally, as 3 of my co-workers were among the fatalities!!..The sister of one of the deceased raised a huge stink about the bus driver being partially responsible ..and the truck driver who was speeding..with faulty brakes... Nothing happened. .it got buried!!.. We REALLY started asking questions after the Humboldt tragedy..and I was REALLY getting suspicious something shitty was going on...Cuz in the late 80s, I was working as a shipper/ receiver in Calgary.., and many of the truckers I loaded/ unloaded had mentioned about a bunch of "ragheads" who ran a training centre next door..that my drivers suspected was bogus. A few of them started making inquiries about it..and within a cpl months, the bogus place was closed down..BUT..a few months after that, I was delivering out in another industrial area, and saw the same company..back at work..with only Indians working inside and driving their trucks..this bullshit has been going on in Canada..since the 1980s!!
"it got buried." -- the only solution then is a wrongful death trial, during which all the relevant details will come out, if it goes to court. A relative of mine was driving a car when killed by a truck whose driver was on drugs and asleep, and had an expired license and a doctored log book. All this came out in the wrongful death trial. I also found out that the average person's life isn't worth much, monetarily: they add up the amount you could earn over the remainder of your life and how much of that would go to the heirs, and offer a settlement based on that, which you either accept or reject. It's rather bleak and dehumanizing, but better than nothing for the family left behind.
Well conceived article, and well said. It is way past time to "nip this in the bud". We have a huge problem on our hands, and the evidence, in the form of fatalities is mounting every day. All of us now know someone who was killed or injured by an unqualified immigrant driver, and the descent into a world devoid of the lifesaving professionalism that used to be the norm in the trucking industry. Safety and respect FROM truckers is no longer a given quantity... in fact the opposite is true.
Canada, as usual, will only improve a situation or address an issue when forced to. So, when the U.S. makes the right changes to road safety, in order to keep the Canadian trucks rolling into the States, Canada then will also have to make the same changes. After all, 70% or so of our exports go south. This means Canada will have to address all the Sikhs and East Indian semi drivers who haven’t figured out English yet. Go U.S.A.!
For the last few months, the police have been cracking down on the roads and trucks getting multiple infractions..even trucks pulled of the road..licenses suspended..so they are aware..I tried contacting the head of the MOT for Ontario..but on his website, he's wearing the most adorable turban..
We had that opportunity in April, but 43 million Canadians decided that Pierre Poilievre was “scary” and convinced themselves that by voting Liberal, they were voting against the Orange Man. Elbows up, everyone! 🤪
I agree, we really need to get rid of this government. They have basically been absent since last Oct when the Conservatives tried to get answers on the Green Slush Fund. The question period was a fiasco because the Liberals refused to answer any questions sensibly. From there we went for proroguing government, then election, and now of course the well deserved 3 month summer break. What are they being paid for. No one is doing anything except Carny flitting around spending money and ignoring all the grandiose ideas he scammed many voters with. He has not done anything for Canadian tax payers after proclaiming he was the in,y one to deal with Trumps d we know how well that worked. Bunch of B——
I have said it before that truck drivers that have not been in the country as new immigrants need for the first five years be apprenticed as in same truck with qualified driver and they cannot drive on snow covered roads that are single lane for the first three years.
Too many innocent drivers taken out by incompetent truck drivers.
Excellent article Alexander Brown. It seems that DEI is rampant in the trucking industry as well as everything else. To me, DEI is the propaganda issue intended to divide and conquer, as seems to be the mantra of the left for everything. Honest, factual journalism alerts all of us to this insanity and is a wake up call for what is going on in this country where it is no longer one of the best places in the world to live in. Keep up your great work.
I quit the long haul trucking 11 yrs ago. I seen what the new drivers were like, and could see what was coming. The new drivers care not for anyone on the highway but them selves. While the older drivers cared about everyone on the highway. And back in the years gone by, a driver out in the lonely roads and/ or highways stopped to help other people in trouble. In a lot of cases it amounted to the safety of the stranded. I know I did countless times. Even when it was cutting into my days time, and sometimes at a cost to me. But I have been on the receiving end a few times. I doubt if you'll see much of that today.
Yes. Truckers were road angels on our isolated, black ice-ridden, wretchedly inadequate highways. Say what you want about Hitler, but he built the autobahns and someone in the USA built the Interstate Toll Roads. As usual the colonial brain addled incompetent appointees of the British Colony called Canada have built shit. Especially lately.
THOSE truckers were finally stabbed in the back in Oddawa a winter or two ago by the turd Trudeau and his dwarf Minister of Everything Nasty and Bad - the Ukro-Nazi Chrystia Freeland. Her grandfather got the Bandera gene it seems but not the Hitler gene. It remains to be seen which was worse.
I went on a road trip through the Alberta/BC Rockies with my friend after high school graduation, I was not even 18 yet. My dad told me if we had any issues on the highway.. especially through the nasty part near Golden, to trust a trucker..they’d help you out.
Now they try and run me off the road.
I have never seen so many trucks that blow engines going through the passes.
I know a guy who works on the road crew on the Coquihalla. He has to force them to chain up. Often doing it for them because they don’t know how or refuse to do it..
That's not hard to believe, I seen that 25 years ago' or so. On time on the hiway 1 in south western Saskatchewan, there were a group of four or five trucks who were blocking the hiway and refused to chain up. It was snowing and blowing. They didn't even have chains. The police said there was over 20 miles of traffic stopped. We sat there until morning, when the police ordered tow trucks to tow them away. Glad I had my bunk.
But you could look yourself in tge eye knowing you had personal integrity!!
Everything is in chaos in Canada. How could its sovereignty be jeopardized by an internal coup of traitors and saboteurs?
It started (I believe) in Canada..with Pierre Trudeau..grooming Justin for years..involving him with socialist world leaders..undermining all public institutions of society..holding private meetings (WEF) with all world leaders..and..here we are..on the bring of civil war..bastards!!..
Indeed, and for all those years since, no one was patriotic and wise enough to intervene.
Extract from the “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars”, book written by William Cooper, x-Army Naval Intelligence Officer. Those aware and wise know what’s happening because it's here now.
In the mid ‘70s, Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington recommended that democracy and economic development be discarded as outdated ideas. He co-authored a book Crises In Democracy, "We have come to recognize that there are potential desirable limits to economic growth. There are also potentially desirable limits to the indefinite extension of political democracy. A government which lacks authority will have little ability short of cataclysmic crisis to impose on its people the sacrifices which may be necessary."
Milford, now 54, was one of 42 contract workers for Syncrude on a bus headed to Edmonton from Fort McMurray when a semi truck slammed into the driver’s side, killing six and injuring 30 in May 2005 on Highway 28. Three died on scene, while three died later in hospital.he suits blame truck driver Inderjit Singh Virk, from Brampton, Ont., and allege his company and the Ontario company that owned the truck failed to maintain its brakes
.
On April 6, 2018, 15 people were killed and 13 were injured when a northbound coach bus struck a westbound semi-trailer truck that blew through a stop sign near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of the truck had failed to yield at a flashing stop sign at the intersection of Saskatchewan Highways 35 and 335 while driving at a speed of approximately 100 km/h (62 mph). Most of the deceased and injured were players from the Humboldt Broncos, a junior ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, which plays in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL).The truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has applied to have his permanent resident status returned. The Immigration and Refugee Board issued a deportation order in May for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu and his permanent resident status was revoked
..These examples above shows how long this has been going on..and the Syncrude crash hit me personally, as 3 of my co-workers were among the fatalities!!..The sister of one of the deceased raised a huge stink about the bus driver being partially responsible ..and the truck driver who was speeding..with faulty brakes... Nothing happened. .it got buried!!.. We REALLY started asking questions after the Humboldt tragedy..and I was REALLY getting suspicious something shitty was going on...Cuz in the late 80s, I was working as a shipper/ receiver in Calgary.., and many of the truckers I loaded/ unloaded had mentioned about a bunch of "ragheads" who ran a training centre next door..that my drivers suspected was bogus. A few of them started making inquiries about it..and within a cpl months, the bogus place was closed down..BUT..a few months after that, I was delivering out in another industrial area, and saw the same company..back at work..with only Indians working inside and driving their trucks..this bullshit has been going on in Canada..since the 1980s!!
"it got buried." -- the only solution then is a wrongful death trial, during which all the relevant details will come out, if it goes to court. A relative of mine was driving a car when killed by a truck whose driver was on drugs and asleep, and had an expired license and a doctored log book. All this came out in the wrongful death trial. I also found out that the average person's life isn't worth much, monetarily: they add up the amount you could earn over the remainder of your life and how much of that would go to the heirs, and offer a settlement based on that, which you either accept or reject. It's rather bleak and dehumanizing, but better than nothing for the family left behind.
Well conceived article, and well said. It is way past time to "nip this in the bud". We have a huge problem on our hands, and the evidence, in the form of fatalities is mounting every day. All of us now know someone who was killed or injured by an unqualified immigrant driver, and the descent into a world devoid of the lifesaving professionalism that used to be the norm in the trucking industry. Safety and respect FROM truckers is no longer a given quantity... in fact the opposite is true.
Canada, as usual, will only improve a situation or address an issue when forced to. So, when the U.S. makes the right changes to road safety, in order to keep the Canadian trucks rolling into the States, Canada then will also have to make the same changes. After all, 70% or so of our exports go south. This means Canada will have to address all the Sikhs and East Indian semi drivers who haven’t figured out English yet. Go U.S.A.!
For the last few months, the police have been cracking down on the roads and trucks getting multiple infractions..even trucks pulled of the road..licenses suspended..so they are aware..I tried contacting the head of the MOT for Ontario..but on his website, he's wearing the most adorable turban..
Good to hear. Thanks for updating.
Is there no way we can get rid of this Govt, & begin the changes needed to bring us back to sensible every day living.
We had that opportunity in April, but 43 million Canadians decided that Pierre Poilievre was “scary” and convinced themselves that by voting Liberal, they were voting against the Orange Man. Elbows up, everyone! 🤪
I agree, we really need to get rid of this government. They have basically been absent since last Oct when the Conservatives tried to get answers on the Green Slush Fund. The question period was a fiasco because the Liberals refused to answer any questions sensibly. From there we went for proroguing government, then election, and now of course the well deserved 3 month summer break. What are they being paid for. No one is doing anything except Carny flitting around spending money and ignoring all the grandiose ideas he scammed many voters with. He has not done anything for Canadian tax payers after proclaiming he was the in,y one to deal with Trumps d we know how well that worked. Bunch of B——
I have said it before that truck drivers that have not been in the country as new immigrants need for the first five years be apprenticed as in same truck with qualified driver and they cannot drive on snow covered roads that are single lane for the first three years.
Too many innocent drivers taken out by incompetent truck drivers.
Ask Zelensky for a loan
If Carney stays in power we won't need any roads as he shuts down travel .
Excellent article Alexander Brown. It seems that DEI is rampant in the trucking industry as well as everything else. To me, DEI is the propaganda issue intended to divide and conquer, as seems to be the mantra of the left for everything. Honest, factual journalism alerts all of us to this insanity and is a wake up call for what is going on in this country where it is no longer one of the best places in the world to live in. Keep up your great work.