happens fast.......

Every day is a new adventure. In just over a year I've had a transport blow a tire in front of me and had to dodge large chunks of rubber, I've seen a truck jackknife and go into the ditch while the van in front of me loses control (the roads were slushy) and does about 4 360's and saw a guy in a pickup's trailer start a speed wobble sending the truck across three lanes.
Good times!

Yes, it can be a real joy. I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling about all those garbage trucks from Toronto heading to the dump near London. Those trailers don't look like they get inspected very often.

who invented working for a living anyways?

That was wicked ... I saw many wild things happen while doing a 7 year commute in the small stretch of the 401/427 from downtown T.O. to Mississauga.

Ummm. NO THANKS!

Ray,how can you say there are too many trucks on the road?Don't you like products on the shelves?

Todd, most of the trucks haven't been "governed" yet & none from the USA have been done. Mc GOOFY brought the law in but from what I'm hearing from my friends I worked with, "there's no inforcement" unless you get caught at over 105km. Some of the larger company's have done it, but the drivers "hate " it when they go stateside & get run over by the US trucks doing 75MPH & their stuck at 62 MPH [105Km.] My friend drives Gravel truck, gets paid by the load, so if they cut his truck back he looses a load a day!!! No one has seen if the MOT or DOT has the equipment to check the computers on board to see if they have been "castrated" I'm glad I'm retired from that mess, the last 10yrs. it wasn't "FUN" anymore, all the responcibilty, put on the driver, for condition of truck wether co. truck or 0/0, paper work in order etc. How many of you out there check you cars wheel nuts, bulbs, exhaust, tire tread, insurance & ownership + DOT documents & a whole list of other things everyday, then get blamed if your late for a del. or p/up when the highway was blocked or shipper was late loading trailer, so now your behind schedule,& it's "STILL" your fault for late!!! Don't miss it at all other than when I see a nice PETE rolling down the road & think "yep, like to try that one out,for about 10mi. then walk away from it"

On I-94, they have installed steel cables on posts in the medians to catch vehicles crossing through to stop head on collisions.

I don't yhink the roads are any safer down here. Hapless drivers are still hapless drivers no matter where you hail from.

i hate driving on the highway but its a must for me. My trucks goverened at 105 and i dont mind it at all. I find most of the transports are not also. I usually try to take backroads whenever i can because its a nicer drive and at least something to look at (like old cars)!! This is actually my last week, ive been laid off for they say three months and then i come back and train somebody for a month or so , then its off to Mexico!!

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Some may disagree but I think having governors on trucks was a good idea. It used to be pretty hairy having a rig on your rear end doing 120kmh

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I know what you mean. My wife and I had a bad experience coming through Quebec back in the early 90s before we had kids. We were driving back from Ontario on the TCH east of Montreal, late at night in the pouring rain. There was lot of construction on that particular part of the highway, which had been whittled down to one lane with no shoulder and nowhere to go but straight ahead.

My wife was driving, when pretty suddenly a huge 18 wheeler was right on our bumper. He kept forcing us to go faster in order to stay ahead of him, and he wouldn't back off. We were driving way faster than we wanted to in the conditions, but we had no option. He kept it up for miles until we got through the construction zone. We didn't get a plate number; if we had I would have filed a complaint.  But it was the most harrowing highway driving experience we ever had.