An international border patrol in the new nation of ALBERTA would certainly be able to enforce driving regulations at the entry point. ALBERTANS...time to move on and leave confederation. Vote YES to separation and creation of something way better!
I was a shipper in Calgary in the mid 80s..and many truckers servicing our company had mentioned about a training center right across from our company that was training only tanned men wearing towels on their heads..People must have reported them cuz they got shut down..but not much news coverage about it..About a month after they left, I was delivering parts in the expanding Foothills Industrial Park..and there they were..new location..same company..same tanned towel wearing "drivers"..they are very persistent..cuz 40 years later they're still here...(Ontario)...I'm not gonna point fingers and say this issue is politically motivated, but back here in Ontario, (where accidents involving truckers with tans and head towels has spiked exponentially for decades) ,the Minister of Transportation has a tan..and towel on his head...strange coincidences indeed.!!...probably has something to do with the thousands of new "Canadians" with a big, red L pinned on their towel wrapped around their tanned head.
I used to have my Class 1 License but due to I was not using it I let it lapse a long time ago. The cost of the medical every year to keep it up seemed to be a waste of money at that time as I had gone on to a different life. As for not having a class 1 now I could be helping my farmer neighbors driving B train grain trucks during harvest but that is not allowed so they have to make do. As for the underground Class 1 scam going on with some of these trucking schools there are a number of immigrant drivers that paid for their Class 1 by "Tipping" the driver examiner of the same decent and they were passed regardless. When a gravel truck driver has trouble speaking English and gets pulled over his cell phone comes out and the phrase "Talk To My Lawyer" because his Lawyer is on speed dial is used to communicate with the officer doing the check stop. The worst case of this was the Bronco Bus crash where that driver was hardly even here in country long enough to have three months of extensive training to qualify for his class 1 license. The site people at the Peat Moss plant where he picked up his load before the crash said the driver had a difficult time getting his load secured properly before he left that site 20 Km from the crash site. Those plastic covered peat moss bales are not the easiest to secure but the site people were under the impression that this driver did not have a clue on how to go about it. The running a of a lighted 6 foot across stop sign resulted in the crash that killed 16 killed and 13 injured. One of the Peat moss site people said the driver had mentioned he was running late due to the long loading time. So these lacks laws and enforcement of these licenses has a big cost to life and limb but at the same time someone like me who knows how to drive a Semitrailer rig is blocked out due to the extra regulations that are put in place to try and stop more carnage on the roads. So the statement that they want more drivers to return to the industry is not really a thing because they sure want you to jump through ALL of the hoops to qualify for that Class 1 license regardless of past experience. I do not want to pay upwards of $20,000 for training for a license that I would use now in the summer and the fall.
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But if the other provinces don't follow suit, like BC and Ontario our roads across the country are danger zones for the rest of us.
We can only do our part. And hope that the others will follow suit.
An international border patrol in the new nation of ALBERTA would certainly be able to enforce driving regulations at the entry point. ALBERTANS...time to move on and leave confederation. Vote YES to separation and creation of something way better!
Yes Alberta needs to move out if the claws of corrupt government
I was a shipper in Calgary in the mid 80s..and many truckers servicing our company had mentioned about a training center right across from our company that was training only tanned men wearing towels on their heads..People must have reported them cuz they got shut down..but not much news coverage about it..About a month after they left, I was delivering parts in the expanding Foothills Industrial Park..and there they were..new location..same company..same tanned towel wearing "drivers"..they are very persistent..cuz 40 years later they're still here...(Ontario)...I'm not gonna point fingers and say this issue is politically motivated, but back here in Ontario, (where accidents involving truckers with tans and head towels has spiked exponentially for decades) ,the Minister of Transportation has a tan..and towel on his head...strange coincidences indeed.!!...probably has something to do with the thousands of new "Canadians" with a big, red L pinned on their towel wrapped around their tanned head.
I used to have my Class 1 License but due to I was not using it I let it lapse a long time ago. The cost of the medical every year to keep it up seemed to be a waste of money at that time as I had gone on to a different life. As for not having a class 1 now I could be helping my farmer neighbors driving B train grain trucks during harvest but that is not allowed so they have to make do. As for the underground Class 1 scam going on with some of these trucking schools there are a number of immigrant drivers that paid for their Class 1 by "Tipping" the driver examiner of the same decent and they were passed regardless. When a gravel truck driver has trouble speaking English and gets pulled over his cell phone comes out and the phrase "Talk To My Lawyer" because his Lawyer is on speed dial is used to communicate with the officer doing the check stop. The worst case of this was the Bronco Bus crash where that driver was hardly even here in country long enough to have three months of extensive training to qualify for his class 1 license. The site people at the Peat Moss plant where he picked up his load before the crash said the driver had a difficult time getting his load secured properly before he left that site 20 Km from the crash site. Those plastic covered peat moss bales are not the easiest to secure but the site people were under the impression that this driver did not have a clue on how to go about it. The running a of a lighted 6 foot across stop sign resulted in the crash that killed 16 killed and 13 injured. One of the Peat moss site people said the driver had mentioned he was running late due to the long loading time. So these lacks laws and enforcement of these licenses has a big cost to life and limb but at the same time someone like me who knows how to drive a Semitrailer rig is blocked out due to the extra regulations that are put in place to try and stop more carnage on the roads. So the statement that they want more drivers to return to the industry is not really a thing because they sure want you to jump through ALL of the hoops to qualify for that Class 1 license regardless of past experience. I do not want to pay upwards of $20,000 for training for a license that I would use now in the summer and the fall.