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SAFETY TRUCKS * Canada: Truckers don't take extensive safety training
* Ontario - Cambridge driver calls for mandatory safety training
Kitchener,ONT,CAN -Our Windsor, by Gordon Paul -Oct 10, 2014: -- The 60,000-kilogram tractor-trailer on your tail on Highway 401 is probably being driven by a professional who did an extensive safety check of the truck before getting behind the wheel... Or maybe not!!! ... To get a truck licence in Ontario, drivers are not required to take extensive safety training. And Cambridge truck driver Karl Evers says it's a recipe for disaster... He says trucking is becoming a penny-pinching, corner-cutting industry that puts safety on the back burner... Despite growing truck traffic, the number of deadly crashes involving large trucks in Ontario has been dropping. From 2002 to 2011, the number of trucks increased by 23 per cent. During that period, the number of deaths due to crashes with large trucks fell 41 per cent, from 171 in 2002 to 101 in 2011... A safety blitz in August in Kitchener inspected 185 trucks and commercial vans. Most of them were transport trucks. Half of them were ordered out of service... A common infraction found in the blitz was poorly secured loads. Other problems include bad tires, worn and twisted safety chains and leaking brake fluid... But poor maintenance isn't the only issue. Driver fatigue is a big problem, Evers said. Commercial drivers are required by law to take a period of eight consecutive hours off after driving for 14 hours, and not everyone follows the rule...
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