Dumbing Down Driver Training

A 615-Hour Truck Driver Training Course for $99?

A 615-Hour Truck Driver Course for only $99! Amazing! Could this be a national standard? Well, there is one sticky problem. It's in French. Well, mostly. More on that later. Jim Park and I have questions. Are we not paying enough attention to Canada's second most populous province, and the second largest trucking industry province…and are they paying attention to the rest of us? We ask this at a time while there is a movement to nationalize and upgrade our training standards and create an integrity pact for carriers across the country. But does that include Quebec? And what is this about 615-hour truck driver training course for only $99? This week we get caught up on what is going on in Quebec when Jim Park and I talk to Benoit Therrien. Benoit is the owner and host of Canada's largest trucking show and podcast, Truck Stop Quebec, and the English version, Truck Stop Canada. Thanks to our friends at Howes Products, makers of Diesel Defender, a diesel Fuel Lubricator & Injector cleaner with advanced IDX4 Detergent

Carriers...Join the Carrier Integrity Pact

CARRIER INTEGRITY Integrity…now there's a word that seems to have lost it's value over the past several years, especially in politics, as we have all witnessed. Integrity is described as the firm adherence [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adherence] to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incorruptibility]. How does it apply to the trucking industry? The recent US Supreme Court ruling on broker liability creates a challenge for carriers: how do we distinguish between the scofflaw carriers and the good ones? Rather than wait for various governments to tighten up their carrier rating methodology, George Kresulia developed the Carrier Integrity Pact. George is our guest on this episode of Truck News Talk.

Mayhem on Highway 11

The title this weeks sound like the title of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Nope. It's real life...and death in Northern Ontario. Let this sink in. The Highway Traffic fatality rate across the province of Ontario in 2021 was 3.94 per 100,000 people, yet the fatality rate in northern Ontario that same year was more than 99.25 per 100,000 people. That's a 135% increase! So far, the Ontario government seems to be okay with that. Jim Park talks to Ontario MPP John Vanthof who represents that Ontario region. Listen as Mr. Vanthof explains to problems…and the proposed solutions. Are you listening, Premier Ford?

Dumbing Down Driver Training

Dumbing Down Driver Training Have you ever heard the metaphor about the "crabs in a bucket"? It's based on the observation that if a single crab tries to climb out of a bucket, the group will pull him down, preventing him from escaping. It embodies the mindset: "If I can't have it, neither can you." We have a crabby example in this TNT podcast where we learn about one province being compelled to dumb-down truck driver training seemingly to satisfy the other nine provinces. Jim Park and Stan Campbell talked to Kelly Henderson, the Executive Director at Trucking Human Resources Sector Council. She tells us about the positive driver training in Nova Scotia, but what Kelly told us about MELT shocked us. You have to hear this. Thanks to our friends at Howes Products, makers of Diesel Defender, a diesel Fuel Lubricator & Injector cleaner with advanced IDX4 Detergent.

A National Truck Driving Training Standard

A NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING STANDARD WITH JOHN DEGROOT Just when you thought that everything that needed to be said about the Red Seal Certification plan for trucker driver training was already said, we discovered that there is more to learn. Jim Park and Stan Campbell talk to one of the most passionate people behind the Red Seal Certification process, John DeGroot. We thought we had heard it all, but this week we learn some new details. Is the answer is a standard driver training course from coast to coast, through Red Seal? It's already beginning in one province. Thanks to Howes Products makers of Diesel Defender, a diesel Fuel Lubricator & Injector cleaner with advanced IDX4 Detergent