The provinces have posted their spring thaw load restrictions:
Drive safe.
The CACD (Canadian Association of Chemical Distributors) office in Oakville received a telephone call from a dangerous goods inspector regarding cargo tanks. Two of the member companies had been inspected and the inspector indicated that for loading and unloading cargo tanks, the weakest link is the transfer hose.
Under the TDG Regulations in Part 5 Means of Containment, specifically 5.14 Large Means of Containment (MoC), to transport dangerous goods by ground, the large MoC must be manufactured, selected and used in accordance with the CSA standard B621 Selection and Use of Highway Tanks, Portable Tanks, Cargo Compartments, and Containers for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods, Classes 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 8, and 9.
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The province of Ontario has announced that October 26 is the implementation date of the new regulation forbidding the use of electronic devices while driving. That’s good.
Now, can the enforcement authorities do something about some of the other distractions? For example, bus drivers that read the newspaper while at a stop, coming to a stop and/or starting up. Or bus drivers that drive to the end of a right turn lane and expect other drivers to let them in when they are no longer in the bus bay. How about enforcing the speed limit on the motor coaches?
How about the truck driver making a left turn at an intersection with a coffee in one hand and a smoke in the other?
If I’m seeing these examples while driving, then the enforcement officials must as well. So how about a little more action and less talk?
Get ready people, here come the road trains or "long combination vehicles" as is known in the industry. Ontario is proposing a one (1) year trial period for these trucks. When did Ontario move to the southern hemisphere and become part of the Australian outback?
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