Truckers for Safer Highways: Four Years of Demands for Safer Roads, Still Ignored

Source: Truckers for Safer Highways

For four years, advocates in the trucking and road safety community have been calling on the government to act. Despite CBC Marketplace investigations and countless media reports, the ministry’s message remains painfully clear: “We don’t matter.”

Enforcement “blitzes” uncover unsafe vehicles and unfit drivers, yet inspection stations continue to close. This is not a safety strategy—it’s a betrayal. It signals to bad operators that they can keep putting lives at risk with little consequence.

For truckers, delivery drivers, and every worker who spends their life on the highway, this is a fundamental workplace safety failure. The current 103.5-hour training program is being slammed as “a disgrace,” a system designed only to pass a test rather than create safe, professional operators.

“We’ve demanded reform in training, licensing, and enforcement. The government’s silence is an active disregard for our lives,” said Travis McDougall, Travis Tuttle, and Jeffrey Orr.

Their message to politicians is blunt: “How many more preventable tragedies must happen before you fulfill your duty to protect the very people who keep this country moving?”