Chohan clips another bridge

Ultimately its on the driver. Considering that Class 1 training is typically based around operating vehicles of legal weights and dimensions I'd say Chohan shares part of the blame. Their trucks have hit 6 bridges so they obviously haven't ensured their drivers are trained and competent enough for moving OSOW loads.

 

Agreed. The drivers need to stop when in doubt. I’ll never forget the ride in the boom truck on the way to rig some steel. I told the guy “you better stop, we’re not gonna make it” and sure enough….boom! We hit the El. “I’ve been here before” didn’t account for them recently paving the road. GOAL instead of assuming everything is good sure helps.

We all make mistakes. I once blew out a rear end because after releasing the brakes I thought I could free the brakes by going nice and easy…the only thing I freed was everything inside the pumpkin. Costly mistake that I learned from. But I #### sure know how to free brakes during the rare occasion they are stuck.

There is also the part where those responsible for the roads cannot plan for modern needs. Imagine, a place like NYC has traffic everywhere. There hasn’t been any real advancement in infrastructure in forever. Yet the tolls keep going up to cross over into that craphole and so does their “maintenance” budget.

They are using old construction techniques, not modern road construction which would make the roads last longer….and you would think they’d have raised the overpasses with all of those taxes extorted from their people to accommodate the larger loads of steel and pre-constructed building materials, heavy equipment, etc.

Driving some of their so called “truck routes can be a nightmare. It takes forever to get anywhere there. They also added bus lanes and bike lanes everywhere.

 

I see they are blaming it on an owner op, and went out of their way to say he wasn't an employee.
"He called the safety manager and said the load was oversized at 12:22. Safety manager told him to wait for permit."
"He called the safety manager 8mins later and advised him that he had hit the overpass."

 

I hate to say it but Vancouver is probably Canada's version of Chicago. Lots of fly-by-night outfits, drivers that don't know how to drive and don't care enough to learn or do better.

 

Just cosmetic damage or have they bought any bridges out of these 6 hits….?

 

wow. That’s impressive how quickly he ####ed up.

that’s a bit more then cosmetic.

 

Had a guy show up the other day that wanted to back a machine up onto the back of his RGN and then up onto our loading ramp to unload because he had no idea how to unpin the neck.

If you don't know, you don't know and there's nothing wrong with that, everyone has started out green at one point. A company sending out a driver without at least showing them how to operate the equipment is unacceptable IMO.

 

Company’s that employ these people need to be held accountable, it’s 1 thing to hire inexperienced people, everybody has to learn , but hiring them and turning them loose on the roads is criminal and they need to answer for it. Furthermore, a lot of our “New Canadian “ drivers come from a culture where the law is meaningless, they are taught to circumvent the law to achieve their goals at any cost, Untill this behaviour changes the trucking industry safety record will continue to disappear down the toilet.

 

Update: Company is SHUTDOWN!
B.C. MOT said enough was enough!!
Sixty-five truck fleet ordered off the road by B.C. officials after sixth overpass strike in two years

 

Good! That should happen more often, not only in Canuckistan but down here in the states, too.