... driving 16 hours straight, with only water and a bag of chips in the cab before resting at a pit stop.

No amount of training will “fix” the working conditions these drivers have to face.

The paper cited an aging workforce, demand for higher pay and difficulty attracting youth and women to the profession as the main reasons for the shortage.

“Difficulty attracting” and “demand for higher pay” are linked. Add in the horrific work conditions and there's no wonder the industry has a problem! They caused it!!

My uneducated guess would be to train them more and with better training.

We have rushed training because of a shortage. We have a shortage because trucking companies don't wanna pay their workers enough for the work involved. When you get paid peanuts to work with constant pressure to deliver, it's no surprise that drivers on their way to getting experience leave when a better opportunity arises, which leaves an opening filled by someone with no experience again.

Have a unionized standard hourly rate like we used to when trucking was a job one could sustain a life and raiseafamily on, or the federal government should help jumpstart trucking co-ops. Or just re-nationalize CN and get a comprehensive freight network back to replace trucks.

The paper cited an aging workforce, demand for higher pay and difficulty attracting youth and women to the profession as the main reasons for the shortage.

There you go.

It's a new arms race ... we need to pair them all up with equally less trained civilian drivers ... because corporate controlled transport companies enjoy cheap truck operators that can deliver goods with little pay and maximize profits ... in a few decades our highways will look like this (but with more snow) ...

Instead of training the drivers, put the goods on trains.

Enforcement.

Unfortunately, that costs money, and governments don't want to spend money, so they'll look for "innovative solutions" instead of just fucking doing the job.

Speaking of trucks, speed limiters should be mandatory on all trucks of a certain size and larger. Max speed should be 80-85 kph.

No reason a 53 footer should be traveling down a inner city highway at 120-140/kph trying to pass cars or other trucks.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Twenty years ago, you'd find trucker Jacques Picotte pushing his limits — driving 16 hours straight, with only water and a bag of chips in the cab before resting at a pit stop.

It recommended better and more consistent training at truck driving schools across Canada, the adoption of a graduated licensing system, and increased use of telematics — technology such as electronic logging devices — that collect valuable data on drivers' behaviour or performance on the road.

Those minimum standards were established in response to the 2018 Humboldt Broncos crash, where a collision between the junior hockey team's bus and a semi-trailer killed 16 people.

One of MELT's weaknesses is that it's implemented provincially — but truck drivers typically travel across the country and even the continent, said Alexander Crizzle, associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan.

Geoff Wood, senior vice-president of policy at the Canadian Trucking Alliance, said many of the report's recommendations are being implemented to varying degrees in the country, while broadly agreeing with its overall call to action.

The paper cited an aging workforce, demand for higher pay and difficulty attracting youth and women to the profession as the main reasons for the shortage.

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