'You don’t get a free day. If your truck’s unsafe, then it’s going to be taken off the road whether it’s a provincial holiday, a federal holiday or not,' says Burnaby RCMP Const. Kevin Connolly after a commercial vehicle enforcement on Family Day saw 19...
Truckers driving unsafe vehicles got an unpleasant surprise in Burnaby this week after local police decided to host a holiday Monday commercial vehicle enforcement.
They inspected 28 vehicles and took 19 of them off the road for safety violations, according to Const. Kevin Connolly, who heads up Burnaby RCMP’s commercial vehicle enforcement efforts.According to Connolly, two of the drivers pulled over Monday expressed surprise at being inspected on a statutory holiday, since the province’s Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement officers typically don’t work on those days.
That driver was pulling a flat deck trailer with an excavator, a small road paving machine, gas cans, chains and large wood blocks on it, according to Connolly. The paving machine was also leaking fuel, and the truck and trailer were kept on scene until all the issues were fixed, according to Connolly. The driver was then sent on his way with a $280 insecure-cargo ticket, which comes with points that will affect his national safety code rating.
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