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the recommendation were written in English signed by lowyer?

thanks.

 

thanks again.

 

Disclaimer (as to not get flamed): This is concerning the poll and not the OPs prospects, by all means if your willing to put the time and the effort in go for it.

No and here's why. For me anyways.

There are plenty of people like me here who are trying to get into the industry and are having a hard time because of insurance companies perspectives on what makes a driver "high risk". The system is corrupt, I'm paying 6 times what most other are paying for insurance and this all due to one ... yes ONE ticket. The only other thing is I was t-boned in my car, me being 19 at the time who do you think the cop blamed? ... rhetorical question as they obviously weren't going to blame the 45 year old woman who destroyed my car. Went to court and WON but I'm still paying massively high premiums for it.

Instead of importing drivers from other countries to fill the jobs (new licence here = clean abstract ... fun fun) the insurance companies should be re-tuned. This multi billion dollar industry where the money can't even be invested in creating a cleaner safer product or whatever like oil companies and car manufacturers could do for example. Its straight banked profit and the cops have their hand in it with trumped up charges, lies and kangaroo traffic courts that are nothing but a cash cow which the insurance companies just love BTW. Clean that up and you will have all the good drivers you could imagine available for hiring. We all know a good portion of the decision on who gets hired and who doesn't is the insurance companies. Lots of good drivers out there who get screwed. Just because your deemed "high risk" doesn't mean you are.

Alas, the dream of a better world where common sense is a tad more present and corruption a might less rampant is nothing but that ... a dream.

 

Because it justifies why they're making your premiums absurdly expensive. Your skills are what they are, they are worth no less than anyone else who has those same skills. A technicality that is entirely based in the paper world is what makes you "high risk" because in that world, those skills you have, well they are trumped by (insert random BS justification here).

In the material world high risk is what the actual odds are of them having to pay for you screwing up ... in that world they make no money. I've had this exact discussion with my insurance broker and not a single word of what I said could be argued and she knew it.

I drive no more than 10 over (absolute max) the limit, I leave lots of space between me and others, adjust speed to road conditions, I'm aware of whats around me, have never been in an at fault accident, never ditched my truck. With that in mind every time I have someone rip by me at 120km/h on the highway in a snowstorm I'd say 90 percent of the time it's some young girl in a chevy cavalier or a civic just bootin' her, same for cars in the ditch. I have a 2002 Toyota tundra V6 2WD single cab for which I pay 260$ per month for insurance (3200$ per annum and that's a deal in ontario believe it or not) ... my girlfriend with two at fault accidents pays 100$ per month/1200 a year. Her insurance company doesn't want anything to do with me, already tried.

I'm 23, I have a wang, I'm white and I'm "poor" that's why I pay more plain and simple and that isn't going to change, the only thing I can do to bring my insurance down is get old but my time machine broke and I can't find a replacement PanWatt flux capacitor so I guess I'll just have to wait.

My blood pressure just went up, no more insurance company talk. lol

 

Oops... so did your premiums.

 

There are federal regulations for hours of service for drivers in companies that work in more than one province, and provincial regs for companies that never leave their home province. Speed limits for trucks will be posted on the highway in areas where they are different than for the rest of the traffic