Comments on: OTA ready to take on key trucking issues in 2024

By: Paul Eberly

Paul Eberly — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:39:58 +0000

As far as road conditions in Northern Ontario goes the TransCanada should be twinned from MB border all the way to Nipigon. They started by doing 6 kms by MB border. That’s a small start although 10 years too late already. That stretch of highway is extremely dangerous to drive in winter due to the people behind the wheel of semis nowadays. Every time you get a snow fall you have serious accidents and fatalities. And a few in between yet. It comes from fleets sending trucks through there with tires made for Texas use and people operating them that have been given ZERO training in winter driving conditions. The current driver training curriculum is at best a nuisance to the people that were naturally born to operate trucks and equipment and to the people that just don’t comprehend how a machine operates it gives them the freedom to hurtle one of those semis down the road at speeds far beyond their ability to control. There is absolutely NOTHING like as educational as buddy driving with a veteran for your first 6 months. Classroom time won’t teach you the tricks of the trade. And the requirements to become a trainer need to become much stricter also. I know of people officially training that have only held a truck licence for 6 months. Go figure.

By: BRUCE DOYLE

BRUCE DOYLE — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 04:54:58 +0000

If there has ever been a Highway intersection of concern and attention it is Hwy 5 and Hwy 6. This location has in recent times really become an awesome nuisance especially to Driver’s heading North turning left towards the Quarry. Constantly Trucks are lined up back of the Crest of Clappison Cut awaiting there Left Turn. This has to be the Busiest Intersection in Ontario. My question is what in God’s Name is the reason the Ontario Government isn’t addressing and acting on this horrible Intersection and constructing the once planned Cloverleaf just North of Highway 5. It’s long Overdue, come on OTA, let’s get some attention to this Site.
Bruce Doyle
Hamilton

By: Stephen Webster

Stephen Webster — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 11:47:29 +0000

In the past 5 years I have seen many sick and injured drivers families that came over on work or students permits become homeless. In the past 8 months alone over 5 000 truck drivers families have left Canada to go back or to the United States. This is because truck drivers wages are not high enough to secure housing in Ontario or many other parts of Canada. The Ford gov has left many types of medical treatment in ont not available in a timely manner or no longer covered by O H I P
I would like to see the O T A step up with a plan on transport of sick or injured truck drivers and medical supplies and certain care when company drivers or lease ops of members get sick. When health care workers pushed for 11 paid sick days . We got 10. I did not see the O T A or the C T A helpful or trying to come up with a plan to make sure that ( payroll) drivers ) get proper medical care in ont or paid sick days while waiting for this care .

By: Stephen Webster

Stephen Webster — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:53:10 +0000

We need to protect trucks drivers and not allow cheaper foreign drivers to come in a sub par wages that resulted in many then turning to become lease ops as way to feed their children. I did not see any plan to look after sick or injured transport workers
We have too many trucks. We need to limit increase of numbers of trucks in Canada until we fix the truck parking and truck drivers family housing crisis