If we could get the speed limiters removed from trucking in Ontario, drivers would be able to pull the trailers out of their precarious slides and jacknifes they get into. The problem with Ontario is the high winds, Moose, and slippery conditions. Combine that with a governed truck with only the brake pedal and steering at your disposal and your up #### creek without a paddle trying to re-balance the weight and grip between truck and trailer front to back and side to side. Without an ability to stay ahead of the trailer (governed truck, remember) a jackknife and a nap in the ditch is surely imminent.
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Discussion in 'Canadian Truckers Forum' started by Cree trucker, Feb 5, 2017.
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But seriously you prove nothing by attacking me, add nothing to the conversation, are just attacking me Ad hominem .
If you got a point, state it.Last edited: Jul 12, 2018
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On another note, if I'm sitting for 1,2,3, days 2 pick up 2 pickups, every day I sit I potential lose $350 per day, not a layover pay. -
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If you don't own your own truck, and you're a driver instead:
DO NOT sign any contract, run, don't walk.
You become a subcontractor, therefore the company doesn't have to pay matching contributions for IE or CPP. You pay the full freight yourself, eg, double what's taken out of your paychecks now. The company also doesn't have to pay for your WCB. Therefore, unless you open an account with them, and pay the rate you fall under, not only are you breaking the law, you're also SOL if you get injured.
As an employee, aka company driver, the only things you have to sign are the usual 20 page boiler plate employment packages.Usually for stating everything you filled out was true, permission for the company to contact previous employers for references and release of drug test info, plus sometimes a list of thou shall nots that you sign that you've read them, sometimes company procedures are written down and another signature that you've read them, etc etc etc. But, even if it mentions rate per mile or whatever else, companies can squirm their way out of those any time they want. It is not a full out legal contract where they are legally beholden to it. Basically it's you signing everything, not them.
If you're an owner/op, then yes, those are full binding contracts on both parties. Best to have a lawyer take a look before you sign. But even then, companies will F you over any chance they get. That's why small claims court is filled with truckers chasing the companies for their pay.
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I suppose the principle I want readers to take away from this is that drivers should have full control of their trucks, and a governor goes against that principle. There are also court battles in Ontario testifying that ungoverned trucks are safer than governed trucks. As with guns so it is with trucks. Trucks don't kill people, drivers do.
Putting a governor on the truck just says loud and clear you don't trust the driver you hired to do a good job. You hired us to do a good job for you, so let us professional drivers do just that. Pride, polish, courteous safe driving, and professionalism should be the default an employer can trust will be the norm of their job performance and expectations from the public of what a driver is today in trucking.Zeviander Thanks this.
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