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.
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!!
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.
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 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.
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.
Everything is in chaos in Canada. How could its sovereignty be jeopardized by an internal coup of traitors and saboteurs?
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!!
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.
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 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