Some Truckers on Canadian Highways are Driving Drunk?

Did you see the one that got nabbed in BC a couple days ago, hit 4 parks cars

B.C. trucker faces impaired driving charges after hitting parked vehicles in Port Coquitlam - Truck News

 

Booze has been an issue with truckers for years.

 

They drive like bats down I91 in Vermont. They come around the rest of us like they’re going to a fire.

 

Some don’t even need any impairment to drive as if they’re drunk. It’s a natural incompetence.

 

Very Common, I was at the Walmart DC in Calgary few years back. Syndicate transport day cab rolls in, parks by the ship/rec office, drivers door opens and the guy flops out onto the ground and is down for the count lol. Vodka and Whiskey bottles in the cab/cup holders.

I've seen several New Way Trucking drivers smoking weed in the Truckstop parking lot, or weed smoke coming out of their sleeper windows.

 

Explains the terrible driving I see every time I visit BC lol.

 

I'm not sure if this is unique to truckstops in PQ or if it's in other places in Canada, but as an American I was kinda surprised to see bars in truckstops there...

 

I’ve hauled all over western USA, everything west of Ohio/West Virginia , every truck stop in the US is basically a liquor store. It’s common place while waiting in line at the fuel desk to see every driver in line ahead of me to have a 6 pack , if not more , paying for fuel and their booze, so if you think impaired driving isn’t a problem all over you better think again

 

It baffles me that the onroutes sell alcohol. It’s a rest area with a convenience store. Mind you I wouldn’t have believed that Oklahoma had drive through service if I hadn’t seen it.