Juno News - August 27, 2025


Gord Magill shares his insights on how to clean up the trucking industry


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Length

2 minutes

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180.53036

Word count

531

Sentence count

6


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What would you do if you were the Prime Minister of Canada and you had the power to make the trucking industry safer? What would you change about the industry to make it less dangerous on the roads? What kind of laws would you introduce to make Canadian roads safer for truckers?

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00:00:00.000 we all see the videos and we all see the rise in accidents and anecdotally you just leave your
00:00:05.280 house and you go i don't remember this many you know trucks hitting overpasses and and and seeing
00:00:11.920 so many dodgy passes on the highways these guys are also being worked to the bone there's already
00:00:18.640 like a already this humanitarian aspect of like the kind of conditions and so we are seeing the
00:00:24.480 american government crack down on these on these lousy licenses and practices sort of maybe it's
00:00:30.960 maybe it's just symbolic to start yeah to the canadian audience what would you do right now
00:00:38.160 let's say you're in government if you know guys like you should be but i wouldn't want to wish
00:00:43.240 that on you also you know pit of vipers and all that what would you do right now to clean up the
00:00:49.440 trucking industry and to make Canadian roads safer? Oh boy, man. I would go to every province
00:00:59.320 and say, you're not allowed to let people do the driver training in their own language. There's
00:01:04.380 this crazy idea where they can go through all the stages of their theory test and their training.
00:01:09.240 And then finally, they always say, well, the test is done in English. Okay. So they did 90%
00:01:14.200 of everything up to their driving examination in their own language and then all of a sudden they
00:01:19.480 have a full command of english again that would end tomorrow canada's two official languages french
00:01:24.360 and english pick one go do your test that's it that's all you get also i would uh immediately
00:01:31.160 impose a graduated licensing system like they have in australia and new zealand where you do
00:01:36.760 not get to go from driving a car and switching that license to a class one in british columbia
00:01:43.720 or western canada or class a in ontario which allows you to drive a super b train such as the
00:01:49.160 unit that jasker at sings to do crashed into the humboldt broncos hockey team that would never
00:01:55.080 have happened if we had a graduated licensing system that would never happened if we still had
00:02:00.680 trucking kind of run as a guild where the companies in the business would police themselves that's
00:02:07.640 what used to happen in like 70s and 80s if you didn't know how to fix a truck change your own
00:02:12.840 tires be able to communicate with people nobody would hire you if you didn't have any uh business
00:02:19.960 acumen or experience in the industry at all when you went to a financing company to buy a truck
00:02:25.640 they would laugh you out the door why are we giving you money for a truck you you just showed
00:02:30.600 up here yesterday and you have no idea what you're doing get lost so like another component here that
00:02:35.800 many people don't understand is that the the services which are behind trucking are in on
00:02:42.760 this the insurance companies the finance companies that lend people money for equipment there's no
00:02:48.600 barrier to entry with that they just throw money at these guys without any vetting without any
00:02:54.200 concern that they're ever going to get paid back.