To the editor:
Tell existing new drivers to stop driving as if they are in a car, like passing other CMV drivers up hills on two-lane highways that are clearly marked "no passing" by the road lines. Use common sense !!
Other hazardous activities, passing on blind curves, in whiteout conditions, (this doesn't exclude driving in optimum fair weather conditions), watching videos on cell phones, and having their left leg on the driver's door.
Stop pulling up on shoulders, when they minutes earlier, have driven through a town that has truck stops. This causes unnecessary interruptions and dangers for other drivers, especially for the inexperienced who will drive into oncoming traffic causing potential accidents.
Crossing the line onto the oncoming traffic happens much too often.
There are many more examples that I've experienced in my 40 years of driving, but the majority of the changes have occurred in the past 10 years! I'm based out of Barrie, I pick up my loads out of Toronto and mainly travel the Hwy 11 corridor up to Hearst and Hwy 144 to Timmins.
New drivers should only be allowed to operate on the open highway outside a certain distance from their home base company (4 hrs each way for 6 months), then for another 6 months, no more than 6.5 hrs out and 6.5 hrs return keeping within the 13 hr driving maximum legal daily limit
Luc Chamberlain
Barrie
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