We are here to help the drivers/transporters by raising those issue which are never or hardly been raised by others. Still we are open to your ideas on new issues and your feedback and support. Many of the topics may not be applicable in your area but still they are applicable in somewhere.
What we think?????
- Modern rest area in each provincial jurisdiction equipped with public scale before proceeding to inspection station.
- No forced (Hours of Service) Reset on road, reset at home only unless driver/company wants. Example if you are forced to sit on road to reset and then drive.No one can be forced to sleep;there is no control on sleep.Increase the degree of rest usually upset everyone.
- Driving hours should be counted, not On-Duty hours. As there may be time wastage in loading/unloading peak hours in city, traffic jams, border crossing and inspection and much more.
If any driver honestly draws their log book, he/she will reduce upto 40% of income with 40% more harassment. And as a result drivers have to hide the things to follow the law and that we don’t want.
- There should be 100 driving hours per week will make driver to drive freely and can drive as many hours but no worry of shortage of hours.An average driver can drive 13-14 hours per day if drive with relax and peace of mind.
We know commercial drivers are way more responsible than non-commercial driven. They know when times to sleep for them regardless of what hours are left behind. There should be totally freedom on safely driving on road.Commercial
Vehicle Inspectors should be available to help the drivers not to treat them like a slave.
- If a driver is willing to follow the law, the commercial vehicle inspector can’t issue them the penalty. Example1: If a driver picked-up a
trailer with valid axle weight and in the way it’s more snow piled (on roof and under the trailer)on route and got little heavier, but driver
neither started with this situation or wants to break the law. It’s not the driver’s fault and there should be exemption of 1000 lbs. in gross.
Example 2:- Due to high wind-chill/freezing condition and adverse weather conditions driver could not slide the (trailer) axles but good in axle
weight, there should be no penalty.
- Penalty for serious safety issues: - trailer doors are not securely locked and doors might open or swing and can be dangerous for others,
Driver intentionally doing insecure act or doing negligence or under influence etc.
- Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspectors will not stop the trucks without solid reason i.e. trail, brake indication lights are snow plugged
or not working and the following traffic can’t see the signals, but this is also not the negligence, drives can be advised for that because
there may be many cars or light vehicle with same problem.
- Wheelbase freedom (within axle weight limits) according to the best load balance for the road safety and equipment increased life.
- Govt. Safety issued from any State/Province of United States and should be valid because safety standards are same in both countries. If other
states safety not valid then why trucks of that State licensed/Safetied trucks are legal to drive in prohibiting State.
- 12 Months Govt. Safety validity in all Jurisdictions (currently 6 months in Manitoba, Canada). Non Manitoban trucks can have 12 months safety
valid in Manitoba but Manitoban trucks are not valid with 12 months safety.
- If a street light bulb burnt out, maintenance takes a week or so, but truck light burnt out, Commercial Vehicle Inspectors nail down the
truckers which in unethical, no driver want to drive with burnt bulb. If a car’s bulb out no worry but why these inspectors are enemies of truckers.
- The broken pavements blast the tires and Inspectors comes immediately and penalize the drivers right away not to the Govt. concerned dept.
who is responsible for repairing, totally non-sense.
- Most of the Inspectors are harassing the drivers on minor things.
- Police/Sheriff stop a vehicle on a solid reason, But these Inspectors harass most of the drivers without any reason.
- Majority of accident (over 90%) are done by light vehicle drivers (Non-Commercial)drivers then why so much restrictions on truckers/commercial drivers.
They are professional and can manage their ways.
- If High school graduates can't set the rules/syllabus for University Graduates,then why truckers law are made by truck drivers. Truck laws are similar
to University/higher standard and set by car drivers or high school students who drive for couple hours a day. And couple hour’s drivers make the laws for
those who drive all the times. Truckers laws must be made by highly experienced truckers as they also drive the personal/light vehicles.
- Commercial Vehicle Inspectors must be experienced truckers but these officers or Law makers are not truckers and therefore lot of laws
on truckers because we know they made the HellforOthers (truckers) and heaven for self (car drivers).Same safety is required by light/small
motor vehicles (at some low degree) but usually no penalty on light vehicle driver i.e.Any bulb out,any glass or wind shield has crack, any
brake or tire related issues and much more but the Law makers made the hell (IS or Inspection Stations) for others (means truckers) and heaven
(no checking and full freedom) to them.
- Legal disputes and claims must be handled by Trucking Associations or Boards or those who know the trucking industry. About 90% victims
don’t proceed to courts due lawyer’s fee and judges not familiar with the industry issues.
- Stopping on road and updating the logbook.Truckers want to avoid stopping unless the last moment even for washroom or a quick stop
because have to mark/flag the log book about the stop.There should be freedom of these minor things.
- Drivers are like footballs that are kicked by mostly everywhere. Companies want to kill driver’s downtime/waiting time, Picks and
drops and switches,when at shipper/receiver, most places security staff and shipper/receiver are fad up of drivers at major plants - example
Cargill meat plants. And when on road these Inspection Stations waiting for the drivers to nail and finally when frustrated driver reaches at
home,same thing happen at home because wives are habitual of living alone and doesn’t like any more presence. Hardly someone long-haul trucker
family life is happy except exceptional cases. Once I saw, a trucker came back to home and his wife came to pick him up and she hugged him,
I was very surprisedbut later I know it was payday. By most experienced long haul drivers has no family life and Govt Lawsand Commercial Vehicle
Inspectors are mainly responsible in it.
- The trucking (Owner Operators and Company Drivers)contracts must be regulated so that Company/Carrier can’t kill the driver’s downtime, picks,
drops, switches, border crossings and wait times which are not covered by labor board.
- According to Drivers forecast there will be shortage of about 400,000 drivers by 2020 and who is responsible for this?? Why thousands of
people get CDL but avoid driving???These laws and Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspection Stations and non-trucking background inspectors are
somewhere responsible for this shortage.
Truckers are the heartbeats of North America
- Either Electronic Log book should not be completely removed or 100 driving hours should be permitted with more freedom for on-road safety.
Daily logbooks should be synchronized and no repetition of information on daily log book if nothing changed from top part to the lower part or
previous day to the following day.
- world is going to downfall due to terrorism everyone is tense,at-least Government should help those trucker who fulfils the countries
basic needs and putting self on fire by stupid Laws.
- There are more than 40,000 traffic laws and if someone is asked to drive and make deliveries on time or even some flexible time frame
for a year and forced to follow all the 40,000 laws and monitored closely and warned severe penalty for each violation.
That driver may not do many violations but due to monitoringthat will be tensed and will keep doing the mistakes. Can
you imagine there that driver will reach??? That will reach either to the graveyard or the hospital or can make others
to reach these places due to monitoring and harassment. That’s what Commercial Vehicle Inspectors are doing. Those states
where fewerofficers are hired less road accidents/hazards and many states are reducing these harassment officers and
utilizing this money in other fruitful or constructive projects not on destructive officers. Instead of penalizing the
drivers there should be video format on weigh stations about the violation to learn the bad effects possibilities due
to that mistake and instant exam. Driver can leave the weigh station once pass the exam. It will control the illiterate
drivers in the industry. If someone doesn’t pass the exam or want’s to leave right away, then a warning should be issued.
- Trucking Laws should be re-evaluate every 10 years because road condition changes,vehicle safety and luxury features
changesCurrent driving hours 11/13 are according to older driving trucks which has minimal luxury features, now a
days trucks are just like mobile homes and even way more than that with higher balance and control in adverse
conditions but Law are few decade older.Law makers are dead, those trucks are dead,and those road conditions are
no more.Technology is improved.The science improvement in last 5000 years is equal to last 500 years,equal to 500
years is improved in last 50 years and last 5 years,technology improvement are equal to last 50 years but trucking
laws gone more adverse.
- Where there are more CMV officers there are more harassment of truckers,because every officer want to
present himself as cash cow for the government and that’s why they focus on (negative) things on truckers
(because of 40000 Laws) and nail them down. We know if we focus negative on anything we can find it and if we
focus positively’ we find it all depend on attitude. I think who want to torture others usually join these types
of jobs so that they torture other under the name of law and safety regardless how much they implement in their
own life.
- Due to these Inspection Stations and officers majority of American drivers avoid coming to Canada.
- le(otherwise) the people will make this world like hell,like it’s not hell now. They never want their slaves freedom because if people/slave
is free then those rulers have no value and they are making money and positions due to slaves or public or drivers.Many jurisdictions of the
world has no or very little Commercial Vehicle Inspectors and Stations and hardly there are road hazards and less than more inspectors
jurisdictions,because they want their roads safe that's why don't start CMVIS. Now a day many state are cutting the costof CMVIS andharassment
to commercial drivers and using the same money in improving infrastructure.If Govt. wants roads safer then these road hazards should be removed
or reduces or minimize their operation and services because drivers also have the right on peace and peaceful driving to follow the safety.
- Study shows if people drive with peace and relax mind, the road hazards and accidents can be reduced by 50%.
- Food saves our life and food is made to survive but excessive consumption of food is dangerous for the life.
Same way laws are made for the Public, Property and Information safety but excessive enforcement of laws is dangerous.
If law enforcement officer enforce all 40000 Law on car/light vehicle drivers,then there will be no room in hospital
and cemeteries.
Our word freedom never means to break the laws in own way but safe equipment safe driving at best we can do and drive for peace within legal limits BUT FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.
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