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To: James Seagrove who wrote (141033)4/27/2018 4:42:15 PM
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The fact that it only takes 27 hrs driving time in schools where most instructors are not actually highly experienced drivers id not the fault any ethnic group. It applies to all applicants equally regardless of who they are. And the training they supply in those schools is inadequate to say the least.
I can tell you from personal experience the people, as they come out of those schools couldn't drive a wedge up a dead dogs Ass. I have personally taken one or two of their instructors for a ride up the side of a mountain on a trip where road grades range 25 to 30% and they were scared stiff. One would not ride down the hill again when he actually took of and walked two miles down to where roads got better again while the loading and tie down was being done..

Two of our former drivers are now BC Govt. industry safety inspectors. They were hired because they had 5 years + hands on knowledge which the classroom cannot teach.

Any driver we hired after about 1990. Unless we personally knew his background or had a documented past with references which we checked out. Would have to run or drive with one of our seasoned drivers with him for a week as a trial before he ever got to hit the road on his own. And the trucks were taco-graph equipped. Tac cards had to be submitted by all drivers at the end of every shift. Even then a couple caused us some severe damage. In one case we missed properly scrutinizing a newly hired guy. As a result when he screwed up on drugs it cost the company a fine of $24,675. For not carrying out a substance check before he was allowed on the road. And ICBC insurance rate for the vehicle more than doubled for 3 years. Fortunately it was not included in our fleet policy. Or it would have affected every licensed vehicle in the group.

It is not any ethnic group which is responsible.. It is the government it's self who refuse to institute proper laws because of lobbing and the fear of loosing large campaign donations. No one can peddle BS to me about what causes unsafe drivers. With a dozen + heavy trucks in our company for fifty years I've been there done that.

I've also heard the rumor you refer to about the whole in the sleeper floor. Tell your buddy he's full of sh*t

When ever I have heard it I have said Show me the trucks. Tell me the name of the company or the truck number and I will personally go have a look. As I said two former employees are now DOT inspectors who look over a hundred trucks a month. I just got off the phone with Mike one of them. I asked if he had ever came across this. He said in five years of inspecting trucks from all across Canada and the US which come to BC he has never seen it.

It is just another fabricated story by some racist pig.
And so as you know I am an American native Indian not from India. So I am not trying to cover or hide anything.
My second purchase was a heavy Class 8 truck in 1962 and have owned at least one and up to a dozen at any given time till I retired 6 years ago. Our carrier license covered both all points too, from or within the two western Provinces.
If it were true some one over the sixty years would have been able to show me.

Some mechanics in the truck repair shops BS about it. But I have never had one actually point to a company.
Like everyone else they only heard.

My one son still has trucks but his are trucks mostly for the logging industry. Presently working on Vancouver Island.
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