Stop Temporary Foreign Workers

Trucking should be a trade.It'll ebb the flow of TFW's.Driving should be compared to trades when it comes to pay. Can you name any trades where the workers pay fines or even have a monetary fine structure in place?

 

As one said before you have a valid point. But in case if you run Canada-US and the payer is from the US then you are creating jobs / income for Canada. It´s called export of services. Only way it differs from let´s say export of financial services - is that it`s a low value service. Cannot make as much money as Switzerland by exporting trucking service

 

Here's something you'll find interesting. Look for a show called "Don't drive here". They did an episode in Delhi India. This is what they are bringing over to be "professional" drivers. I saw that and I was disgusted.

 

A steady stream of Russians also coming in via Canada.

 

If the Russians are anything like Ukrainians, I'd rather take them. Four wheelers are a little nuts at times.

I used to be very tolerant of people from the Middle East, but witnessing a lot of garbage makes one think that's all they are. Know a guy from Lebanon who runs one of the local pizza outfits. Good guy. Always wanting to hire me as a delivery driver every time I see him.

 

Now, once again, I'm not picking sides here, but just imagine what the 'first North Americans' said when they saw the 'second North Americans' riding horses with saddles ..........

Maybe it went something like this:

" How in the heck can they get off a straight shoot on a bison slipping and sliding all over that saddle thing ?? At least we have dirty 'ol gritty fur with grip to sit on ........ "

" Well, they do have muskets .......... but I can re-load and shoot 5 arrows to one of their stupid metal balls .......... "

I have seen my share of terrible 'current North American' truck and car drivers ..... we all have ..... I have also seen the same in 'new North American' truck and car drivers.

We have to get over the whole stereo type thing gang. Find yerself a crappy truck driver trying to back into a dock blindside, and help 'em out. It shouldn't matter where they came from 'originally' ..... unless they turn out to have the attitude of a mad hornet .... then they're TOTALLY on their own !!

I'm not a social therapist - I have four broken noses to prove it. Try to be human .... or at least professional .... They're not going anywhere .... lets help 'em out a bit and hope it pays off somewhere.

If you need someone to keep blaming - throw eggs at someone's corporate headquarters !!

 

Yeah... . They're not going anywhere until they kill someone because they went to a cut rate driving school. Then they want to go home.

I don't Have anywhere to go if I kill someone other than prison.


If they can't drive or back up that's their problem. The sooner society sees what's coming over here and tearing up the roads the faster it can be dealt with.

 

It will never be dealt with unless the companies hiring them and putting them on the road untrained for our driving conditions grow a consience ... Because most are self insured and dot and enforcement are tired of going court to hear them play the R card and get off. Not much appears to be getting done unless it's a smaller company with just ends up changing the name on the doors every year or two it seems... Profit trumps safety regardless of what the vultures say IMO Look at companies that traditionally were the safest in North America are putting behind the wheel and one quickly realizes we are relying on blind luck instead of training nowadays

 

Hopefully driving gets pushed into the college system and getting a license becomes a lot more difficult than it currently
Is.