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DANGEROUS TRUCKERS * Canada: Big-truck ‘licensing mills’ put public at risk
* Ontario - Courses at $999 or less evade Government SCR
Toronto,ONT,CAN -The Star, by Kenyon Wallace/Mary Ormsby -Oct 14 2014: -- Cut-rate truck schools in Ontario are producing poorly trained drivers who put the motoring public at risk... The Star found two dozen unregulated schools in the GTA that offer to teach students just enough to earn their AZ licence — required to operate a tractor-trailer with air brakes — and to clear new drivers with scant hours behind the wheel to operate a vehicle about 40 times heavier than a car... These unregulated schools, called “licensing mills” by experienced truckers, thrive by exploiting a provincial loophole. They evade government scrutiny by charging $999 or less, just under the $1,000 threshold the province has set for regulated courses... “Once you have that licence, you could be driving a double-tanker filled with gasoline down the 401 tomorrow,” said David Bradley, president and CEO of the Ontario Trucking Association, which is pushing the province to introduce mandatory, industry-designed instruction for entry-level drivers... “(Some drivers) really don’t know what they’re doing. They’re a menace to themselves and everybody else” ... A fully loaded tractor-trailer can haul upwards of 36,000 kilograms of freight, including dangerous chemical cargo, and travel at speeds of more than 100 kilometres per hour... Tractor-trailers are the largest trucks on the road, and when they crash, the results can be disastrous...
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