A 56-year-old truck driver from Saskatchewan is facing multiple charges in Manitoba after crashing his semi-trailer into a row of vehicles waiting to pass through a construction zone west of Winnipeg Thursday morning, The crash killed a seven-year-old girl and a 61-year-old man along with injuring 15 others on Highway 2 near the town of […]
Great Plains College has become the first organization in Saskatchewan to offer part of their semi-trucking program through virtual learning. The college, which has campuses in Swift Current, Kindersley and Warman, says this was needed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Region Manager Fritz Eckstein says there are no safety concerns while offering the theory portion […]
Transport Canada says it will require all commercial drivers to have electronic logging devices — one of the recommendations out of a coroner’s report into the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. The federal department says it will make the tamper-resistant devices mandatory on June 12, 2021. “These new mandatory logging devices in commercial vehicles will improve […]
