r/NiceVancouver.

25k+ users, we do practically zero moderation. Surprisingly it’s pretty damn civil and great.

I never had COVID until everyone stopped caring about it. I’m on my 4th time having now.

Do not recommend.

I really don’t believe their story that they are going to actually have enough crew available to have every single vessel in the fleet sailing.

I’ll believe it when I see it

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I’m just curious, any reason everything you post seems to be from the paywalled WinnipegFreePress.com?

I’m getting an uneasy feeling about that.

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.

Correction: “you cannot get any closer legally”

I’ve seen many people to over the fence. Not a great idea at all.

6 months isn’t enough.

And competence is never a substitute for double, triple and quadruple checking everything.

Even the one on DriveBC apparently has some errors, and so do the routes that you get with your oversize permit occasionally. At the end of the day, it’s ultimately the driver’s responsibility to make sure every overpass/tunnel/snowshed etc is tall enough for their load.

If it was negligence, permanent.

I would say so. And I would argue not knowing the height of your truck is negligence, and if that causes you to hit an overpass then well you should be held liable.

If you have issues again don’t hesitate to reach out. We need to know if there’s issues or bugs

Thanks!

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.

They are supposed to. But I’ve heard from drivers in the dump truck industry that the alarms are often disabled by drivers because “they are annoying”.

My tractor I can’t dump the airbags if I’m going over 10km/h, can’t release the 5th wheel slider if trailer parking brakes are released, and tons of other safety features.

It exists.

It’s not totally accurate, so professional oversize drivers don’t trust it and double check signage by looking on Google Street view, and still check the physical signs as they drive.

My theory is that since COVID, the bar for how shitty/unprofessional a driver can be and continue to be employed has gone down significantly due to a severe and worsening shortage of drivers.

I know of one driver with 11 points on their license and zero class 1 driving experience that was hired by a reputable company recently. Another one with a rather fresh 2 month suspension and bunch of points got hired by a very reputable company too. Most companies used to want clean record, shady ones would be ok with 6-9 points. Now it’s a free for all.

Industry is fucked.

I’m here and I’m taking over running this Lemmy instance along with Shadow.

Haha if I strike a bridge we’ve got some big big problems considering I drive tankers.