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Truckers Furious * Canada - After driver fined for smoking in cab
Wednesday night as word spread that police hit a driver with a $305 fine for smoking in his rig, because it's considered a workplace... "It's ridiculous..."
Calgary,AB,can -The Calgary Herald/Windsor Star, ty Trevor Wilhelm -October 7, 2009: ... Truckers from across Canada were fuming Wednesday night... Essex County OPP stopped the tractor-trailer on Wednesday around noon after noticing the lone driver headed down Highway 401 in Lakeshore with a cigarette between his lips. The officer ticketed the 48-year-old London driver for smoking in an enclosed workplace... Even some non-smoking drivers said the government should butt out of their business... The Smoke-Free Ontario Act states that "no person shall smoke tobacco or hold lighted tobacco in any enclosed public place or enclosed workplace"... Neil MacKenzie, the health unit's tobacco program manager, said that includes the interior of a vehicle. He said the rule still applies to truck drivers who own their trucks and are the only ones who drive or ride in them... "Absolutely," said MacKenzie. "If it's a work vehicle, then they are required to have it smoke free"... "It's just going too far," said Larry Jespersen, a driver from Calgary. "I mean, where are they going to stop? It's ridiculous. Drivers should be able to smoke in their trucks because for many, their workplace is also their home"... (Photograph by Jason Kryk/Windsor Star - Truck driver Brad Weber, 44, who lives near Owen Sound, takes a smoke break outside his truck at a Husky truck stop)Labels: furious truckers
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