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B.C. transportation minister vows to raise fines, recover repair costs after overpass strike (bc.ctvnews.ca)
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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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