How underqualified truck drivers are earning their licence in Ontario
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2023
- The person who cuts your hair may have had more training than the driver of that big rig barreling down the highway. Caryn Ceolin with how some truck driving schools in Ontario are cutting corners and getting away with it.
Correction: The headline SHOULD read "How unqualified drivers are earning their licence in Ontario". Not just the truck drivers out there on the roads endangering people
I'm not even shocked that half of these schools are in Brampton and Mississauga.
Joopy doopy boopy noopy. Makka takkajakka bakka!
lol
I pay 2000 dollars. I don’t want get the license from them. I came all the way to Scarborough find a good school.
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If you are Indian in Brampton you get licenses handed to you. I lived their 10 years. I saw how things were done. Real estate forget it. 2 Indian Realtors and their recommended home inspector working in cahoots.
Remember, Police also have less 'training time' than a hair stylist as well.
And they carry deadly weapons.
That may be true in the United States however is far from it in Canada.
@Timothy Stone The Arse CMP where I live break every DMV law. Then turn around dishing out lies dishonesty and corruption. 👎
@@timothystone3360 in the USA it’s the same as Canada for police academy 6 months
Stop acting like Canada has better train cops than USA they are both first world countries and are relatively the same country with a few differences
@@modernhistory8978 Cops in the USA can be hired right out of high school. (Grade 11 with some programs).
Canadian Police must have college. They must have a accreditation in the OACP for Ontario Police or the TNT for any other Province.
@@modernhistory8978 The numbers speak for themselves.
A lack of police training, police brutally, and use of excessive force is a matter of National contention in the United States at the moment (and historically).
It is virtually non-existent in Canada.
I have a client in Ontario that owns a trucking business. When I asked how business was his response was "I'm not in the trucking business I'm in the Immigration business"
Your right
Diversity is the insurance company’s strength
Not only truck drivers, many new drivers on the road can’t even read the road sign these days.
How did they read the questions on the test?
@@davidpayumo23interpreters
@@davidpayumo23 You can do the written test in about 20 different languages in Ontario.
Don't even know what red or yellow on a traffic control paddle means 😖
@@frankvanw1 yup, our highways are a tangled mess of flesh and metal
You only need 40 hrs to get a recreational pilots licence but don't see planes falling out of the sky. Making it harder won't make the drivers better. If team brown isn't following the rules now they won't be following them if they are more even strict
Lol! Team brown
Exactly!
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Your right. They want more regulations and rules and despite all this there are more crashes.
Team brown never follows the rules unfortunately and Canada is paying the price.
Conflict of interest and corruption are par for the course in modern Canada
How many that don't speak English or French get a translator that has written the tests many times to help them out during their exams
You shouldn't need to speak the frog eating language. Their a bunch of fairies.. u wanna speak French go back to France
French 😂who cares
Here are 2 big problems:
1. The 42 hours on road training at the Brampton (Punjabi) school is done with instructor in passenger seat, student in driver’s seat and 2 or 3 other students sitting on the bunk. The “bunk” students learn nothing and the hours spent there is credited to them as on road hours.
2. No graduated licensing requirements. A student can go from driving a Honda Civic to “a big rig” over 140,000 lbs gross just like that.
We have graduated licensing requirements for the 16 year old new car drivers, although not AZ DRIVERS!
Well they're taking a page out of c.r. England playbook.
They've been doing two or three students at a time for many years
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist Decades ago when we had that chance to do graduated licensing I argued that before long haul I'd like to see five year of accident free driving a 5 ton downtown in Vancouver. I was a volunteer Treas. for 65 trucking companies, the old CBRT Local 101. BUT during the eighties rec/dep. the truckers all seemed to be coming out of Ontario. this answers a lot of questions for me.
The woke mob might label you as racist for speaking the truth
My buddy works as a shunt driver at an auto plant. He told me you wouldn't believe how many can not even back a trailer into the loading docks
Sounds like an east Indian thing to do
All 3 levels of government have become useless more about them selves than actually helping the people
Fact!
This is all Canadian services!
How about that customer harassment recordings on every Canadian service calls as if we needed that? Unless people are being mishandled ...!
In Ontario you can get your truck drivers license by mailing in the bar code from a box of Fruit Loops
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Seems to be that way with just about any license.....lol
I tried it. You lie
It’s not fruit loops anymore. It’s red bull or monster
Tie the schools to the drivers record. If they sign off they should be held accountable. Or at least looked at.
U said the best thing I've herd
That's happening here! My wife attended a CDL school attached to a college in NC, the driving required was a fraction of what I had to do in a private school.
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@@Alexedmartin.
We this doesn’t surprise me. All you need to do is just drive on the 401 for a few days and you’ll see how bad some of these guys are. I’ve seen a truck wive in and out of traffic. I’ve had a truck come over on me and push me on to the shoulder of the 401 and many other just put their indicator on and move over without make sure it is safe to do so.
Everytime I signaled to change lanes four wheelers speed up so I can't move over, no respect on the roads anymore.
@@joemills950 yeah I giver 0.5 blinks and start coming over because the idiot behind you will speed up and block the lane you are trying to move into otherwise.
Even in courier when Loomis was number one in the west, the Toronto depot was 1/4 the size of Vancouver's and had EIGHT TIMES the accidents. Yes, that meant the 401 was heavily involved. Along with black ice. And idiots.
@@louisliu5638 at least it wasn't in Surrey lol
@@juliogonzo2718 that's EXACTLY where almost all of the Florida dr. lic. holders live and own, along with the tandem axle gravel truck drivers. How'd you guess???
Thank you for bringing this up. This should be national headlines. I have a trucker on my street and he mentioned how these young kids come as international students and get into trucking and now you have 20-22 year olds inexperienced drivers behind the wheels of these big machines being reckless.
How many days of classes u took to have your license we as an international student provide for our family and ourself this is just hate we regularly see some idiot drivers on road who don’t understand how to drive every person none the less what they drive should be trained properly
@@kamalsaini4407 it's not hate.....it's reality.....I am a log truck operator in Northern Ontario , and we also provide for our families......It took me roughly 4 full years of driving tandem with a class 3 Alberta licence before I was hired and insured as a class 1 driver.......I have been witness to 7 or 8 highway 17 fatalities involving eastern Ontario semi trucks with young ,and likely unqualified, drivers being shoved behind the wheel and told that they will be fine.......Iast year at a Husky in Dryden Ontario I had to show a driver how to lower his moose bumper so that he could open his hood.....I have nothing more to say
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Bro isn’t it a fact though?
I run transport and warehouse business and I can not agree more with the facts mentioned!
@@jamesmcnaughton9575 agree these students are here to work as a truck driver but not to study. Study is just an excuse to get in to Canada. Driving big rig with absolutely 0 winter driving experience. Ridiculous!!!
It’s scary to see them given people large equipment with zero hours behind it
Driving truck is a biggest joke They pay the truck drivers nothing Mandatory 70 hours before you get your overtime But there's a shortage I wonder why
What I love is you have drivers who have never driven in canada in a car getting their truck drivers license. I think you should have to drive in candanfor at least 5 years before you can get a truck license
Good Luck on that one. These immigrants will be crying discimination right off the bat.
In the States, you only need to pass one road test (usually takes around 10-15 minutes) and once you pass, you can immediately get a CDL (to drive buses and trucks). Some states are even getting rid of parallel parking. I agree with you that there should be a waiting period between obtaining your full license and applying for a truck driving license.
There has been a huge change in drivers over the last 5 years, big time. The government is as much to blame as shoddy training schools.
correlates with opening the floodgates to people from countries with no traffic rules. funny how that works.
@@elena6516 👳🏿♂️
I’ve been a fully licensed AZ since 1998 operate many combination trucks and loads
The danger out on these roads are unbelievable
In 98 you could get an A license with a pick up truck and a landscape trailer lol and they’re freaking out about a training course.
Yea because of brampton
Sounds like its time to give it a rest.
These guys go on like Toronto is dangerous, come hang out on 11 and 17 lol
Back when I used to wake up late and was late the hole day it’s was wfo 11/17 style haha
I've left this part of the industry after five years. Between the poor drivers and lack of respect from companies, shippers/receivers and the general public, it's just not worth the headache anymore.
I was known as one of the fastest 5 ton bobtail drivers in Vancouver, but I suggested the "headuptheirass" companies like Costco and Walmart should just be boy cotted. Their whole attitude and RUDENESS (I rarely use that word) was just over the top. Cost me hours. One time the lead took my paperwork and then WENT HOME. i was two doors from the action desk. Two hours later and no one had a CLUE want was going on. I later opened the new freezer plant in Surrey on the desk side. You can bet drivers were treated well by all MY CREW. Most of us had driven. I got to do the hiring!! Bonus!
As a driver of 20+ years in heavy haul I completely agree an its making some of us want to give up the carreer an passion we have is lost when it's getting crazier on the roads cars an trucks that shoukd never have gotten a license in the first place out there craziest part though for me is when we have to do are written renewal exam there are drivers in the kiosk on phones with translators probaly helping them pass these questions if someone can't understand signs or questions related to driving why on gods green earth are we allowing them to pass or someone helping them pass its insane
Company push to go out on bad weather day.
Snow plow is so slow in Ontario.
Start snow plow middle of snowing. It means already icy conditions
We are a smaller company, insurance says no to new drivers. Must be 3yrs experience and 25 years old. We can pay for the training but can't get around the insurance issue.
FYI THE ARMY PUTS YOU INTO AN ARMY TRUCK WITH ZERO DRIVING LICENCE.
You don't need one to drive anywhere in Canada as long as it's a government vehicle...yup.
Really? you don't need the military occupation code for truck driver?
@Frank Van Wiechen as a cook I drove a MLVW as my first vehicle to which I got a civilian licence 3 years later..even crashed the truck..and still had to drive a smaller vehicle. They do vehicle training yes but doesn't cross over civilian side
Not a problem until some high level poiltician or rich person loses family members to this problem.
They would never. Their rich family members just hiding.
How do you proof it’s the truck drivers who are responsible for the accidents. Did you do an investigation or did you simply come to that conclusion because a truck is involved. Toronto has some of the worst drivers anywhere in the world. Besides the number of hours you spend in school doesn’t translate into following the rules. It comes down to decency and personality.
But it's still going to keep happening because of the Warehouse and Drivers shortage and Major Insurance Company and Trucking Companies plus Dispatchers .
I like how the news blurs out the trucking company’s and at the end of the video you can see a Canada Carthage truck in the background 😂
Trucking companies in the GTA have applied to the federal Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to recruit international truck drivers as Temporary Foreign Workers. These foreign workers enter into the field of trucking with forged foreign documents that helps them to bypass the regular minimum training expected of truck drivers in Ontario. When these drivers are responsible of serious vehicle collisions, they escape to their home country. Families of the decease in Canada and US never receive justice.
The responsibility of a truck driver and liability far out weigh the pay. This is nothing . Imagine a large truck with the most precious cargo , children/ school bus makes even less money Shows you where are priorities are ? All these drivers of both big rigs and school buses should have extensive training and the pay to match I drove truck for years and when you added up the hours on log book compared to pay it worked out to 11.50 an hour , so I gave it up . With respectable training and respectable pay usually comes respectable drivers ?
Few weeks ago my dad told me that some new guy for another company was driving a straight dump truck and had forgotten to lower the bin before going onto the road later clipping a overpass
All these new drivers... mostly students and visa workers from India... they don't even have experience driving a personal vehicle... but they directly get their commercial license with minimal training. This is ridiculous! I ve been a professionally trained commercial driver for 8 years... but gave up driving commercially after seeing untrained idiots causing deadly accidents. corruption and corrupted people from other countries putting Canadians at risk every day. Must be addressed by the government and need a total overhaul on commercial vehicles training and licensing.
It's so true.
By the time Trudeau is finished his immigration banaza the pay will be $16 hr for Trucking jobs.
Can't help it buddy. The government is also being indianized.
@Dr. Schultz The Great Replacement / White Race Genocide. They're doing it on purpose.
You can blame this on the Ontario government almost every one of the accidents in Ontario involving a commercial vehicle the percentage is high that the companies involved are from Brampton,Mississauga,Oakville and the surrounding areas. The drivers that have been out here a long time have seen this going on for years and you couldn’t say anything because they would say your a racist.There are companies taking people’s money and pretty much guarantee the people they will get there license.This scam has been going on for years and the government should be making these people do there test again through the MTO
It's because they buy their license from someone who works there or through other means. $500 cash will buy you an AZ license, but only to Indians, by Indians, in Indian areas, such as you pointed out. They've ruined the industry. I drive for Loblaws and I'm not joking when I say, 95% or all the drivers in Ajax are Indian. They break stuff all the time and never get fired.
Being called a racist in today's environmental is like a merit badge. You know they have no argument when that card comes out
Had a driver who had to back in to drop off load, after 45mins of failing to do so, he left and drove back to Toronto. How do you get your license if you can't back up???? Needless to say he was one of our commonwealth friends.
Diversity and equity..both safe and effective 👍
Diversity and equity is our strength?! But definitely lack of ethics.
You can ask that question to everyone who drives a vehicle in this country.
Hi guys,in which school in Ontario you pass your exam for AZ and get your licence in school,not at drivetest?
Hey Reporter Aunty can you please tell what was course length for these two veteran drivers in their times ? Let me tell you, they did just one day training before MELT Program. And do you have even single question in Car Licensing, how to behave around trucks ? Answer is No.
Maybe make the job more attractive to employees and people with a brain will want to drive truck again. I'm 39 and have been working in the trucking industry since I was 19 and every day it sucks more and more. People like me who actually care are leaving and being replaced by people who don't. The more people who don't care, the more restrictions that are placed on the job and more people who care leave. It's a vicious circle. The other problem is a lot of companies that are owned by a certain group hire their own people and then abuse them. They are newcomers and don't know their rights as an employee or don't want to rock the boat and get taken advantage of. One problem I can see with the training is these companies will pay for the training and then the drivers are indebted to their employer. It's almost human trafficking. They bring them over and then the employee is in their pocket and gets abused
No many MTO scales in Ontario
Most of those drivers are from India, they are extremely aggressive driving behavior, they get trained in parking lots and put on the road without experience. I have been driving in Noth America for more than 20 years, and I have a clean record. Those trainers should be put on test by the MTO in canada 🇨🇦
💯 agree
Thank you for your hard work. I'm 28 and been driving moving trucks since i was 19 with no problems. I got my DZ road test in a few weeks but i don't think i'll ever get my AZ. Why would anyone want that life is beyond me. Poor guys get treated like dirt, under payed, high risk the list goes on. Then good drivers get called "Underqualified" by people who have never touched a truck
@@ricardo9013
Hear hear Rick! I rest my case.
I'm a shunter at a large distribution center. I've been driving 23 years. Its lack of training, skill, and basic common sense. It's scary. I see it every day. Some drivers can't even figure out how to break a seal...fleets should go back to manual transmissions because before automatic trucks you needed some sort of skill to get the darn truck moving!
actually, they cannot downshift going down hill, therefore engine breaks do not work, therefore only foot break. After a minute ... no brakes. It causes so many accidents! they are poorly trained with a manual too.
as a professional 1a, im more worried about regular drivers then i am another big rig
After 45 years in this industry I have seen the changes. You did not ask the 5 W in your article. There no lack of trained truck drivers. What there is a lack of people willing to work under the conditions that they are asked to work and be paid. You can train all the new drivers you want. The retention rate of the industry is abysmal.
Until the industry is willing to admit what the real problems are all the schools in the world will not solve the problem good or bad The government and industry need to stop treating this as an unskilled job that anybody can do. That is far from the truth and until that realization has made nothing will change. They have the same problem in the US and some of the European countries. Until truck driving, becomes a trade and is treated like a trade with proper education and salaries nothing will change.
Great news article!!!👌
2 interesting notes here.... all the truck driver schools are in mississauga and brampton and who lives in them neighbourhood..... and when the show a clip of a scale with its lights off as they mention inspections which is the other problems scales never open.
There are a lot of problems. To solve this, according to me, the following should be done.
1. The number of schools offering licenses should be limited to just Ontario Colleges. This will make it more expensive and limit the number of people getting their truck licenses but on the flip side, the drivers will be better trained.
2. Every truck should have a breathalyzer regardless. This would limit the amount of DUI’s in trucks. I’ve seen a lot of drivers who have been charged with dui’s and are STILL DRIVING!!
3. There should be a union like the IBEW equivalent for trucks. I’ve been driving for 8 years. The rates are so low with such long hours that i’ve changed careers to acquiring an electrician license. Once i find a part-time apprenticeship along with my full-time, i will quit trucking for good. I’ve had 7 inspections at scales in north america, no tickets, no accidents, defensive driving is my attitude and habit behind the wheel. My car insurance in brampton is lower than what some people are paying outside of the GTA. Being a driver who has learned from great people (Humber College), it’s a shame that the industry couldn’t keep me, and how many more in the future. The union therefore, would be responsible for training and assigning to jobs and the rates won’t be so low.
4. Lastly, truck drivers, regardless of background and race, should help eachother out. There’s nobody else there for us, the rates are heavily influenced by what company owners pitch to their potential clients, there is no minimum set by anybody which is the reason why it’s so low. It has nothing to do with race/color. Everybody needs to eat, some people are more desperate than others (smaller companies), if we can’t work together, we’ll never work for eachother.
This can all be placed against GREED. Big trucking companies are all about the bottom line. Hire a fresh out of school idiot that has no experience driving anything let alone a highway tractor because that driver is happy to make $220.00 flat rate to drive Toronto to Montreal and back. The carnage out on the highways involving big trucks is an embarrassment to the industry.
Truck driving use to be a professional driver's job and you never seen a truck driver pulled over by the police. Drivers had skill and proper attitude when it came to the job.
Now it is ineptitude and ignorance.
I am a truck driver licenced since 1989. I got off the road because I could not trust the truck beside me anymore.
Well sometimes they get pulled over. I impounded a semi for the OPP. The guy passed blind and ran two oncoming vehicles onto the shoulder and the one he was passing. The cop was behind him and saw the whole thing. 14 day impound on the tractor and one year licence suspension for stunt driving.
Now we know from where all the swift drivers are getting trained …
I be getting passed by truckers going 40+ over the speed limit in terrible weather conditions so I'm surprised it took them this long to realize
Oh, was that you? Speed up, you're going to cause an accident🤣
Just because someone drives faster than you doesn't mean they are bad. Slow drivers like you for 1cm of snow on the road are more dangerous than those who can drive in those conditions.
@@livestock9722 he prob sped up when they were trying to pass
@@BossSfeedy Driving the speed limit is not considered as driving too slowly.
All road trucks registered from Ontario are speed governed , they couldnt if they wanted to
These so called international students coming from different countries to work as a truck driver not to study. Driving big rigs with zero winter driving experience is suicidal and threat to others !!! Where is this country heading ? Who is accountable???
In Manitoba, my melt course was $9000 and 244 hours and our road test are done with mpi not the school so no there's no way to sway the examiner to get a free pass it took me 3 attempts to pass my test and when I got a job I was training with a 20 year experienced driver with my company for 7 months
I was at MPI on plessis the other day hauling cars and a guy was walking out with a paper in his hand and his head down. I think it was the walk of shame.
I don't know how to drive a truck, but I know just enough to understand that if a four-wheeler squeezes in-front of a moving truck, barely 10 meters apart, and then expect the 140,000 lb monster to break.... 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
I just got my az license few months ago and start my first truck driving job next week, I'm definitely not confident in my backing , the school just teaches you around cones and never takes you to a dock or a truck stop for real situations its kind of a joke. They teach you only to pass the test and that's all. I paid almost 10 grand out of pocket for this lol. I think government has to make the courses more stricter , no one is near ready to start hauling coming out of cdl school.
Take it easy, use common sense and you’ll be fine. The more you do it the more natural it will get. Just takes time.
Can you tell me yhe name of the school where you took the course? Was a reputable facility like Humber college??? Thx
It was Transport training centre of canada the biggest truck training school there is , I failed twice because of backing , they wanted to charge me $200/ hour for extra lessons after paying all that money lol so I went to cam scott and instructor was alot better at teaching and had docks in there yard i could practice on also less then half the price . I passed first time with them. Should of went there from Beginning,
@Ct87 thanks for the info.
Same problem out west too
Brampton is No#1 manufacturer of East Indian truck drivers. These guys can perform some straight driving. When it comes to back-up they pay others drivers between $20 - $40 to do the job for them.
It was a time when I was enjoying the show but it is not enjoyable anymore, because there are more and more in this situation, and they share the road with us.
The bus load of young hockey players hit by truck killing many. Truck driver new and jailed, yesterday got license, company that hired him got slap on wrist. The company that put him with no experience driving b trains should be in prison not the driver. I drove transport for 30 yrs in recent years towtruck recovery has been very busy.
Can anyone here suggest a good driving school in Ontario?
Most East Indian truck drivers did not get their license legally.
I can challenge anyone on this statement. Retest every single driver in Ontario by one body of team without disparity from different testing location.
From my experience all the so called driving companies do is teach you how to pass the test. Drive you around the few testing routes and show you all the components you need to touch when inspecting the rig and then badda boom badda bing you are a professional driver. You get experience by driving out on the roads after you pass the test......fun stuff. Driving truck is a soul crushing job......
Lots of driver in ontario are new and they don't have enough experience plus the are texting while driving.
man, two weeks ago when we had the snow storm on a Friday, I was on the 401 westbound to Milton in the new express. We are in bumper to bumper traffic because the salters were out. The collectors were clear-ish with lots of traffic backing up. All of a sudden I see a this Volvo, loaded FLYING in the collectors. Absolutely no regard for people. And the roads were BAD. I mean the entire highway was crawling no more than 40-60kmh at a time. He was going easily double. My car with snow tires and awd did well, but not well enough to be travel at those speeds with a load.
I got my license when no training was required. Just walk in, write the test, and did the course of the z. Week later, I am driving. Clean record to this day.
Yeah I had a couple hours practice with a guy perfecting shifting and an air brake course. I hit a concrete block years ago but that was my only booboo
Ya but your like 60 years old ahahahahahahahaha
Ya it's not guy's like you and me who are driving trucks now that's the problem, just look who has taken all the driving jobs in Canada now
@@22mrwright Who?
"no training, no road test"??? Dad died having his Class 1 in Canada and had to do a road test in Calif. upon arriving; 1961. "no training" required WHERE??Florida??
There is a flood of young drivers (students) because our Federal government is so out of touch. They don’t want to consult with these two industry experts but instead opened the LMIA for this job. So ask those young boys want to get there Permanent residency and earn good money at the same time. But sadly heard stories that that are getting exploited, paid way less in cash in the promise of LMIA.
It’s not just the trucking industry!!! But yes I agree.😊🇨🇦
This needs to be a trade…… I have for 25 years in this industry worked as a fleet manager, safety and compliance, driver, owner operator and have a red seal mechanic licence. If truck operators had to train in an apprentice/ journeyman program things would change. It’s to expensive the industry will never change.
The industry is now running double the weight and horsepower compared to forty years ago. It would be worth it.
That's the way to go!
Brampton resident
How many of these drivers involved in accidents are new Canadians? This report assumes truckers are always at fault! License for new Canadians should be at least à gradual process at least be driving a car for at least 5 years before be allowed to upgrade to a class license
I spoke with a current driver whom I witnessed personally attempting to back a trailer into a loading zone while standing on the running boards. When I asked how much training he had received because it was painfully obvious very little, he indicated TWO WEEKS. Yep 2 weeks, Welcome to Canada.
Yep, throw them on the road with the rest of the population, and whatever happens, happens. The politics of accommodation, tolerance and negligence.
You can say the same thing of all drivers, not just trucks
This explains why I always feel much safer in a hair salon as opposed to the highway.😮
The are Ponjabe from Mississauga never drove before
Been trucking for 15 years and these Indian (punjab) fly by night schools are popping all over the place. The province needs to deal with this asap. Call me a racist I don't care people's lives are at stake.
About time they looked at this
Brampton & Mississauga ?!?! Shocking!!!
Looking for qualified driver! Make sure they get paid Enough! Truck drivers gets nuts 🥜
Am a Kenyan truck driver,age 58,can i come as a visitor and train in your school then after you connect me a job?
I've once ,I said it 100 times, they teach them how to get their license and not how to drive.
Especially the one who came from south living environment! They not highly pay attention at north snow and ice road!
So true I had my truck hit by a guy who up to this day I can’t figure out how he had a license
Luckily I was inside our warehouse and my truck was at a loading dock
He ignored a one way sign came in our yard the wrong way and smashed the side of my truck backing into a loading dock 🤦🏾♂️
It's all Brampton Indians. Half of them are on the phones driving carelessly the other half can't read signs
They also tailgate and go over posted speed limits!!
this is all because the big companies why they did not governor the truck speed set at 100km and reduce drive time from 13 hours to 11 hours a day
I ha e been driving for a de ade plus. I haul explosive commodities and I am exiting driving due solely to the other drivers on the road.
So as previously mentioned qualified workers aren't gonna put their lives at risk to make a wage not worth the danger.
Let's be clear. These "drivers" aren't "earning" their license. Qualification and teaching rules need to be upgraded and enforced. Not just in Ontario.
funny how the definition of the word "earn" has changed over the years. I have a dictionary from 1940s; the definition therein is "to obtain BY MERIT". the current definition: to obtain, gain, or receive. The merit portion has been dropped.
just finished the DZ course in Jan. & while doing it i realize that these training schools are all about making money just like every other company in Canada. Also the min required hrs of training isn't utilized properly the school to train the drivers
Back in the day I paid $250 for an air brake course and rented a g class 5 ton for my D road test. I was on pogie and tried to get az training but they turned me down
It wasn't that long ago you could. Literally just take the test and that was it. Now you. Need 100 hours of training and that's still not enough? It's already ridiculously expensive to get the training. What should we do make you train for 6 months? A year?
What about the training for the car driver
The Cars on the road also have unqualified driver's in them.
Yes we have an issue with this but it's not just truck drivers.
1. They get their licenses from Crackerjack boxes.
2. They pay-off the instructors.
I know a truck driver here in New Brunswick, he's only been in the country 4 months!!
No many MTO scales in Ontario
Most of those drivers are from India, they are extremely aggressive driving behavior, they get trained in parking lots and put on the road without experience. I have been driving in Noth America for more than 20 years, and I have a clean record. Those trainers should be put on test by the MTO in canada 🇨🇦
Serco private company mto been gone for like 15 years or more
We all know what the real problem is here. Fresh off the boat straight to the seat, That’s the real issue going on here and ppl are scared to say it with all the sensitivity going around. And with the government handing out grants to schools that are being run by them and with them being the issuer for the road test nothing is going to change. Then companies hire them to get more government subsidies while the ones who are qualified and worth the money aren’t being hired.
Or you could just go to a Brampton truck license mill and pay $1000
Oh the name of the place please?
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its sad. Have seen drivers bragging of going from a G2 to AZ in a couple months in fly-by-night GTA schools. Mind you, as marketplace I believe did the story on, you can go to New Brunswick, get a legit license in a few weeks and get an AZ. Then when they came back to Ontario, that, is one of the few provinces that have the mandatory minimum schooling, the subject had issues even hooking up the trailers!!!
One problem is that truck drivers are NOT considered professional occupation. They are highly restricted tho. Cannot do more than 105kph, but you can buy a little car as a G2 driver that will do 200kph, without issue
These 2 were the same back in days when you dont even need the current training. Just pass you air brake and 2 weeks of classes or just hands on training costing 1300$ and get you license.
We are having similar problems in the states I also believe the other half of the problem is poor training from the companies. I've seen people get their CDL and still not able to shift after schooling
At least now in Ontario if you do a road test in an automatic you get a restriction on your licence and are not permitted to drive a manual
Its the same way in America
We had tandem axle dump truck drivers that couldn't back up in Canada. Had to send one of five away as we were in a downtown area loading a sand barge and couldn't use the secondary artery for backing up trucks. It was arrive, back, dump and go or GO AWAY. I had to wonder how they got their license. In BC you have to take a tough written just for your Air Endorsement alone, THEN a road test and training , then a govt. road tester for a ride.
I think of lots of videos narrated and produced by the Smart Trucking RUclips man on claims of not-so-good truck drivers having represented a larger % of such active drivers. Driving has for me, as an operator of cars, minivans and small SUVs (in the last case relative to ones such as large GM ones such as the Yukon and Tahoe), meant giving fast-moving vehicles as wide a berth as possible. Yes many drivers of large commercial vehicles are responsible but when there's a crash between one as small as a GM minibus (e.g. the Chevy G4500) and a vehicle no larger than a Honda CR-V, the commercial vehicle will very often cause significant damage to such a smaller vehicle.
I wonder if the inexperienced ones, are the ones who are CONSTANTLY IN THE HAMMER LANE!!! (FAST LANE) ILLEGALLY!!! SO TIRED OF THIS! They think most of us are just oblivious or just don't know it's illegal to do so!
Some annoying truck drivers hog up both of the two only lanes and they INTENTIONALLY go at the same speed and block all the cars and slow everyone down! Worst truck drivers ever!
True I'm gonna get that license asap