Mahan Singh came from Amritsar, in northwestern India. He’d never experienced ice or snow. He gave $10,000 in cash to a Surrey, B.C., trucking company to get hired – charging job applicants for a position is against the law.
Kathy chronicled the heartbreaking story of Gypsy Hunking, who lost her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend when they were killed when a new trucker on a temporary work permit drove his loaded flatbed through a red light and hit their car. He was 23 with only a year’s driving experience. Since the story ran, Kathy has been inundated with more calls from people with concerns about British Columbia’s trucking industry and the rules that guide it. Two years ago, Ontario brought in mandatory training for anyone applying for a truck drivers’ licence. The Prairie provinces did the same after the tragedy that killed 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team.But B.C. remains an outlier. It is consulting with industry on the parameters of new rules.
Because the foreigners flooding into this country do not know how to read traffic signs or speak the language.
Because of lack of training most should not be on the road as drivers.