Falls Leading To Injury

Falls from height are a leading cause of driver injuries. Most fall incidents occur when the Driver:

• Exits or enters the cab

• While conducting trip inspections, maintenance or repairs

• Cargo securement or unloading cargo

Falls from the cab steps, freight trailers and flatbed decks, increase when work surfaces are wet or covered with snow, ice, mud, or grease.

Ensure you wear proper safety footwear with good support and slip-resistant soles. If you are unfamiliar with the unit you have been assigned, take the time to look for the placement of handholds, steps and handrails.

3 Point Contact at all times entering or exiting the cab is the rule of thumb.

Light Your Way

Headlamp technology has grown and is an important part of a commercial driver’s safety!! Drivers depend on their headlights for illumination of the path ahead, often in adverse weather conditions, so it should be considered a tool of the trade.

Using the right tool for the job is key.

Incandescent versus LED?

Either way, a clean headlight will improve the range of your sight. Also, travelling at a speed that allows you to stop easily within the distance your headlights illuminate. Overdriving your headlights results in reduced reaction time to hazards or obstructions in your path.

Massive “Truckers for Pipelines” convoy in Nisku sends clear message to Trudeau

This article is shared from “The Rebel Media”. Worth the watch and read!

https://www.therebel.media/massive-truckers-for-pipelines-convoy-in-nisku-sends-clear-message-to-trudeau Sheila Gunn Reid of The Rebel.Media reports: Truckers from all across the province staged a massive protest convoy in Nisku, Alberta. Organizers optimistically aimed for a turnout of 1,000 but instead, over 2,000 trucks and pieces of heavy equipment joined the 22 km long convoy. Watch as I speak with attendees.

Organized in just 36 hours by a group calling themselves "Truckers for Pipelines", the convoy sent a strong message to Justin Trudeau that Alberta needs “pipelines not handouts” and that the Liberals need to kill their pipeline ending Bill C-69.

The trucks started staging at Blackjack's Gaming Room early this morning for a drive that would take them on a loop through Nisku, finishing up at Ensign Energy Services where Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer spoke this afternoon.

Organizers said they aimed for an optimistic turnout of 1,000 trucks and pieces of heavy equipment.

Instead, convoy numbers reached nearly 2,000 units. In fact, so many trucks participated in the convoy that it took nearly two hours to get all the trucks out of the staging area and organizers were concerned that the 22 km long convoy route wouldn't be long enough to accommodate all the trucks at the same time.

Today, I talked to some truckers and their supporters about why they thought it was important to come to the convoy on a very chilly December morning.

If a trucker’s protest of this size took place anywhere else in the world, there would be political resignations.

But here in Canada, I doubt our leaders in power will even pay attention.