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!
AGREE. STOP THE EXCESSIVE - FEDERAL ROBBERY OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS IN ALL PROVINCES. WE HAVE BEEN PAYING OUR FAIR SHARE FOR 175 YEARS...WHILE THE PARLIAMENTARIANS THEMSELVES NOW FEEL THEY CAN ROB US IN PARLIAMENT AND IN THE COMMITTEES, WITH IMPUNITY...AND NOW WE PAY FOR MASSIVE IMMIGRATION TO FEED, HOUSE AND CLOTHE NEWCOMERS IN HOTELS FOR YEARS!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
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.
I have a Class 1 since 1976 and the medical for the 1 is getting to be a hassle. I got a letter from the BC driver ministry saying to get a hearing test as I don’t have good hearing, and the letter suggested I should give up my 1 and everyone would be happy. Except me.
Passed the hearing test anyway just to pizz someone off.
Finally....Get those migrunt drivers out of our country, and show these "New Canadian" companys that even they, also, have to obay our laws, despite their race, color, and ethnicity.
BC and Ontario will be reluctant to follow suit as these demographics are a huge voting block and the trucking industry would have to find a significant number of competent drivers all of a sudden.
Don’t look now, but there is a Sikh bearing down on you. There is an insider in the government giving advance warning of where truck inspections are occurring. I’ve been stopped in a couple. You won’t see many Sikh drivers at these stops, but you do see massive amounts of them on the road.
Good point!!..that's probably why all these idiot "drivers" are pulling u-turns everywhere..In Ontario..the Minister of Transport is Prabmeet Sarkaria....hmmm...and pretty sure HE knows where these inspections are gonna be...so...ya..
Good on Alberta for doing this, the federal government has been dragging their feet on this issue as a documentary by CBC Market place showed a while back. Kudos to you Alberta!
If it only takes ONE bad apple to spoil a crop, we'd be wise to make sure there are zero bad drivers on our roads. Transport Drivers - and ALL VEHICLE DRIVERS must have the APPROVED qualifications to be driving ANYWHERE ON OUR ROADS AND IN OUR CITIES. WE MUST IMMEDIATELY INCREASE THE FINES AND ADD IN SOME PRISON TIME FOR ANY INFRACTIONS AND ACCIDENTS THAT DAMAGE LIVES OR PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Where was the " ministry of transportation " when these FIVE schools started their rig training..?.WHO authorized these schools and its " teachers " as having the ability to do do..??..WHY isn't the " person " or " persons " who authorized these incompetent " schools " to train drivers not FIRED immediately and publicly.??
UNLESS all present governmental systems and the " persons " who run / operate each system are fired replaced / abolished and proper representation is established for the people by the people ( NOT Governance ) this incompetence of " so called " leaders will continue to destroy Canada
it is about time...I would rather these truckers stop at the BC border and do a switch with a BC trucker..keep these farmers out of the mountains...I have never seen so many truck accidents in BC as when we have a influx of AB truckers coming here during the construction of the latest pipeline. In fact, for all the Albertans that hate BC, there sure seems to be a lot of Albertans living and working here and buying summer homes in the Okanagan, Kootenays, Shuswap areas. I have read many comments where Albertans hate BC?
I'm Albertan, and can't ever remember hearing an Albertan say they hate BC. We aren't particularly fond of your socialist government, or the people who vote them in, but you have a beautiful province, your weather is generally much nicer than ours, and most of the people I've met from there are delightful. I've got several relatives who call BC home, including one of my daughters. I do understand your concern with drivers, as it's a whole different thing driving through your mountain passes as compared with our straight roads. I do think that truckers who frequently drive on them become as used to them as all your drivers do. It also takes new drivers some time to become comfortable with all the twists, turns, and inclines.
I did not paint with a wide brush, but I have read many comments from Albertans who who do paint BC and the residents with a wide brush! I am in northern BC and most people I know are on board with Alberta's challenges with the fed's and even believe northern BC should join AB if AB was to secede from this unflushed toilet of a country we once were proud to call Canada! The problem in BC is Vancouver and Vancouver Island or should I say the woke left NDP, Liberals and Greens in BC. Not unlike your two woke cities, Edmonton and Calgary....I also have many relatives in AB, and I travel there annually and I too, know many great people from AB...as for the trucking comment, many AB drivers have never been able to navigate BC with ease, I am 62 yrs old and have seen this all my adult life...Mountainous driving is intimidating and unless you drive them daily, I do not agree with your assumption...I am a retired truck driver and I speak from experience...
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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.
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
AGREE. STOP THE EXCESSIVE - FEDERAL ROBBERY OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS IN ALL PROVINCES. WE HAVE BEEN PAYING OUR FAIR SHARE FOR 175 YEARS...WHILE THE PARLIAMENTARIANS THEMSELVES NOW FEEL THEY CAN ROB US IN PARLIAMENT AND IN THE COMMITTEES, WITH IMPUNITY...AND NOW WE PAY FOR MASSIVE IMMIGRATION TO FEED, HOUSE AND CLOTHE NEWCOMERS IN HOTELS FOR YEARS!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
We can only do our part. And hope that the others will follow suit.
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.
I have a Class 1 since 1976 and the medical for the 1 is getting to be a hassle. I got a letter from the BC driver ministry saying to get a hearing test as I don’t have good hearing, and the letter suggested I should give up my 1 and everyone would be happy. Except me.
Passed the hearing test anyway just to pizz someone off.
Finally....Get those migrunt drivers out of our country, and show these "New Canadian" companys that even they, also, have to obay our laws, despite their race, color, and ethnicity.
Alberta's only hope ...Independence!
BC and Ontario will be reluctant to follow suit as these demographics are a huge voting block and the trucking industry would have to find a significant number of competent drivers all of a sudden.
ya..Conservative drivers..
no definitely liberals
?
Don’t look now, but there is a Sikh bearing down on you. There is an insider in the government giving advance warning of where truck inspections are occurring. I’ve been stopped in a couple. You won’t see many Sikh drivers at these stops, but you do see massive amounts of them on the road.
Good point!!..that's probably why all these idiot "drivers" are pulling u-turns everywhere..In Ontario..the Minister of Transport is Prabmeet Sarkaria....hmmm...and pretty sure HE knows where these inspections are gonna be...so...ya..
Why did it get out of hand to start with???
..cuz we didn't do anything..angry emails to our MPs allowing this crap doesn't do squat..SHOWING UP. AT THEIR OFFICES ..IN NUMBERS..WILL
Maybe
well..we gotta try..only other option is ugly..
Good on Alberta for doing this, the federal government has been dragging their feet on this issue as a documentary by CBC Market place showed a while back. Kudos to you Alberta!
Robin the Rebel
If it only takes ONE bad apple to spoil a crop, we'd be wise to make sure there are zero bad drivers on our roads. Transport Drivers - and ALL VEHICLE DRIVERS must have the APPROVED qualifications to be driving ANYWHERE ON OUR ROADS AND IN OUR CITIES. WE MUST IMMEDIATELY INCREASE THE FINES AND ADD IN SOME PRISON TIME FOR ANY INFRACTIONS AND ACCIDENTS THAT DAMAGE LIVES OR PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Seize their equipment.
Where was the " ministry of transportation " when these FIVE schools started their rig training..?.WHO authorized these schools and its " teachers " as having the ability to do do..??..WHY isn't the " person " or " persons " who authorized these incompetent " schools " to train drivers not FIRED immediately and publicly.??
UNLESS all present governmental systems and the " persons " who run / operate each system are fired replaced / abolished and proper representation is established for the people by the people ( NOT Governance ) this incompetence of " so called " leaders will continue to destroy Canada
Why Alberta is a leader across this country!
it is about time...I would rather these truckers stop at the BC border and do a switch with a BC trucker..keep these farmers out of the mountains...I have never seen so many truck accidents in BC as when we have a influx of AB truckers coming here during the construction of the latest pipeline. In fact, for all the Albertans that hate BC, there sure seems to be a lot of Albertans living and working here and buying summer homes in the Okanagan, Kootenays, Shuswap areas. I have read many comments where Albertans hate BC?
I'm Albertan, and can't ever remember hearing an Albertan say they hate BC. We aren't particularly fond of your socialist government, or the people who vote them in, but you have a beautiful province, your weather is generally much nicer than ours, and most of the people I've met from there are delightful. I've got several relatives who call BC home, including one of my daughters. I do understand your concern with drivers, as it's a whole different thing driving through your mountain passes as compared with our straight roads. I do think that truckers who frequently drive on them become as used to them as all your drivers do. It also takes new drivers some time to become comfortable with all the twists, turns, and inclines.
I did not paint with a wide brush, but I have read many comments from Albertans who who do paint BC and the residents with a wide brush! I am in northern BC and most people I know are on board with Alberta's challenges with the fed's and even believe northern BC should join AB if AB was to secede from this unflushed toilet of a country we once were proud to call Canada! The problem in BC is Vancouver and Vancouver Island or should I say the woke left NDP, Liberals and Greens in BC. Not unlike your two woke cities, Edmonton and Calgary....I also have many relatives in AB, and I travel there annually and I too, know many great people from AB...as for the trucking comment, many AB drivers have never been able to navigate BC with ease, I am 62 yrs old and have seen this all my adult life...Mountainous driving is intimidating and unless you drive them daily, I do not agree with your assumption...I am a retired truck driver and I speak from experience...