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B.C. transportation minister vows to raise fines, recover repair costs after overpass strike (bc.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca
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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (9 children)

recover repair costs from truck drivers and companies

Nah, just the companies.

  1. more assured of payment
  2. have them stop hiring bad drivers and working them too hard.
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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    As a driver myself, I think if it's deemed that the driver's negligence was the main contributing factor, they should be personally liable.

    The whole point is that is to send a STRONG message to the unprofessional drivers that if they don't pickup the slack and fuck up, the rest of their life might be destroyed.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sure, but isn't the responsibility for training on the company and not the driver? I'm not super familiar with the industry, sorry.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago

    Average amount of on the job training a driver gets when hired is probably half a shift. You're expected to know and be able to do it without any additional training.

    I think that's totally wrong and bullshit but that's what's going on out there. Where I work it's 4-6 weeks full time for a driver with experience, 6 weeks to 10 weeks or so usually for a new driver, we've had at least one do 6 months+. We're a definite outlier tho and probably do the most on the job training out of any trucking company in BC.

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