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

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.

Juno News - August 27, 2025