Friday, April 19, 2024

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Supplementary Staff report advises against new driver training elements, accepting previous training, mandating in-car tests

RWN Staff

of the December 15/16 Toronto City Council meeting, Licensing and Standards staff submitted a Supplementary Staff report on December 13. The report recommends, among other things, that there be no change to the driver training program for which they have already issued and closed a Request for Proposals; training not be restricted to that provided by public institutions; that drivers trained previous to 2016 not be exempted from the new training; that the City not dictate whether training should be online, in-class, in-car or a combination of methods; and that modules on sexual harassment and discrimination be mandatory, but not an in-car component.

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Feature/ProfileTrucking

What do Truckers want for Christmas?

RWN Staff

Road Warrior News conducted an informal survey of over 100 truck drivers and asked the question, “What are the gifts you would most like to receive for Christmas?

Once we got past the fantasy gifts that provided humour and colour but no actual shopping advice (these included “a new job,” “a load home,” “a better dispatcher” and “a day without stupidity”) the majority of suggestions fell into these categories:

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People doing really incredible and selfless things in BC – be one of those people, writer suggests

Guest Contributor

Yes, it’s true – even as the flooding disasters in BC continue to unfold, and while there should be plenty of food and toilet paper to go around, some people have been hoarding, and the grocery store shelves are bare.

Sometimes people do really stupid and selfish things when they’re scared – don’t be those people.

Because you know what else people have been doing?!

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49% of rideshare users came from TTC, 5% from private cars, Dr. James Cooper tells Committee

Rita Smith

“There’s something called the Bang and Olufsen effect, which is the actual amount of expenditure to achieve the last 5 per cent of benefit. For every person to be served within a certain time, every single vehicle out there needs to be a PTC or for a taxi. So, to highlight the effect of serving everybody in a very precise timescale avoids and ignores the conflict between other traffic and the provision of PTCs. It’s not always possible to achieve particular service levels.

“That was a finding that we see over and over again, the numbers of vehicles create required for service levels of a particular type will in and of themselves create significant harm by their presence, not just with emissions, but things like avoidable accidents.”

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