We need better safety enforcement of limits on truck driver hours of work, not long hours which can only make the safety problems worse. Truck drivers are underpaid and overworked.
Trucking is already a sweatshop industry.
He will meet this week to brief mayors and municipal officials in St. Catharines, Windsor, Sarnia, Niagara Falls and Kitchener. Evans said there are already far too many crashes in southern Ontario where big trucks apparently fail to stop or slow down when encountering traffic tie-ups due to construction. One truck driver was killed and others injured. Four tractor-trailers were destroyed. Nine people were injured, including at least two children.