Sask licensing approach is sensible
Re: Manitoba farmers concerned about new trucking regulations (WP, Feb. 14).
After reading the article on licence rules, I would like to make a few comments. I have no problem with making regulations that improve safety. I have a problem with comparing a young man who grew up on a farm and operated all sorts of machinery and vehicles since he was big enough to sit behind the wheel to an immigrant who is given a week’s training and is sent out on the highway with a Super B.
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The NDP government is lumping them all in the same basket. I’ve owned and operated trucks, trailers, Super Bs, etc., and you’re not a qualified operator with a week or two of training.
A number of years ago an immigrant driver struck a vehicle at a ferry terminal in B.C. and killed an Ontario family. He couldn’t read or write English but he had a class one license. How did he get it? The B.C. government allowed him to use an interpreter when he took the test, and of course, the interpreter knew all the answers.
I agree with Saskatchewan’s common sense approach to the problem, not the one-size fits all approach taken by Alberta.
Roger Brandl,
Fort St. John, B.C.
