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<p>[quote user="edbenton"]For one thing FM in Canada there you can not pull a LCV truck til you have at least 3 years OTR experiance. 2 the roads up there are built in the European model where the contractor has to STAND BEHIND HIS WORK FOR 30 YEARS. Here as soon as the work is done it is the states problem. Also Canada is the 2nd or 3rd largest country in land mass but has not even 1/6 of our population so the roads execpt by Montreal and Toronto are no were near as crowded. 3 Down here in the States the ATA and the Mega-Carriers call the shots up in Canada it is the Insurance Companies and the Goverment that do the RCMP aka the Mounties are not someone to screw with I have seen to many drivers end up losing everything because of being a typical UGLY AMERICAN up there. The thing is our INFASTRUCTURE will not allow the larger trucks on the roads that plus the number of drivers with 10+ years of experiance that would tell the compaines KISS MY A$$ as they walked out when forced to pull them. They may work out in the west but here in the Midwest and East Coast NO WAY IN HE!! would I want to see them the 53 footer is bad enough out here.[/quote]</p><p>That's all good and well, but it still seems your opposition to allowing higher GVW and longer LCV is anecdotal and predicated on a regional bias. So can I make the assumption that you wouldn't be in opposition to allowing these changes out West? That's where I live, and if only us Westerners are the beneficiaries of lower retail prices due to greater trucking efficiency, I have no problem with that.</p><p>BTW - don't you think that the drivers of heavier or longer rigs would get (or at least should get) greater compensation? </p><p> </p>
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