Urine bottles littering road hint at dangers truckers face

[Cybergal]

Urine bottles littering road hint at dangers truckers face
6/28/08

WINNIPEG -- Twenty-eight - count 'em - 28 bottles of urine littered the roadside along a 35-kilometre stretch outside Winnipeg.
Some half-buried in the dirt, others in the ditches on the edge of the cut grass. Pepsi bottles. Dasani water bottles. Lipton iced tea bottles. Bottles with tattered labels, some with cracked lids oozing liquid, many deformed from the impact of being tossed to the curb.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...1-4fc3546446f5

[Ducks]

I thought this was particularly interesting...

Dr. Ron Heslegrave, an expert at the University of Toronto on fatigue management, said driver fatigue is a big problem that needs real solutions. Some countries have tried to solve it by holding everyone in the system responsible.

For example, Australia and New Zealand are moving toward legislation that would hold truckers, shippers, the company, dispatchers and others responsible in a truck accident.

"Currently, in most instances (in Canada), the driver takes responsibility. But the driver operates within a system, and if you follow the chain of responsibility - the dispatcher, the shipper, the company - other parts can be responsible because they are not managing it . . . better," Heslegrave said.

I like how this guy thinks.

[Ron-MARS Trucking]

I went through a broker last week whose contact person thought that I could go from Denver CO to La Mirada CA (20 miles or so S/E of L.A.) in 12 hours...legally
Apparently some people look on map quest and boom, it can be done.
No accounting for road conditions, weather, terrain ect....

Plus they tried to move back the appointment 4 times while I was on the road

[Cybergal]

Message in a bottle about
6/30/08
CANADA

If you want to know how bad it is in trucking today, just scan the highway roadsides. Showing up more and more as roadside litter are plastic and glass bottles containing urine from truckers too time-harried for bathroom stops.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Can...23961-sun.html