3 months probationry period.... ....needs to be repealed.

Federally regulated employees are subject to a 3 month probationary period whereas provincially regulated employees don't seem to be.

The federal aspect of this law needs to be repealed.
What recourse does a new hire have when it comes to obeying H.O.S laws when they are on probation.
No person in a safety sensitive function should be subject to termination without compensation.

If the government wants safer highways and compliance with HOS then they need to remove ALL incentives to falsify logs and one of those incentives (especially for newly licensed drivers) is rewriting a log in order to keep the truck moving and the employer happy so as not fear reprisal within the first 3 months.

A driver that knows he is compliant and doesn't need to fear termination also knows he is a safer driver. He is also most likely a rested driver, which just might like the job and stay in trucking. Unlike now which the industry is spitting out drivers in droves.

 

The biggest problem I see coming with e logs is that a computer will be telling a driver when they are "legal" to drive rather than "rested and capable" of driving

I can see abuses by companies telling new hires to drive through the night after they potentially had no sleep through the day in order to deliver a load. A driver could say "Iam too tired to make by morning" or "Iam just too tired and need to sleep ". In turn a company could say the driver was disobeying an order especially when he had hours available. Companies could very easily coerce drivers into running tired for fear of losing their job.

If a company has some skin in the game from day one they might just be inclined to treat drivers better from day one.