Transport committee  Today, many companies have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to this.

Transport committee  I was about to say the same thing that was just mentioned. Many companies have a zero tolerance policy. People have to follow the rules or find another job. I think this has become the standard. Of course, there is always room for improvement. However, I think that companies have

Transport committee  Speed limiters are actually mandatory in Quebec and Ontario. For us in Atlantic Canada, I'd say probably 75% of companies put them in place for safety reasons, and also for fuel efficiencies. So there are great advantages to doing it. For the others that don't, we push for it and

Transport committee  If it were mandatory, it would be a different story.

Transport committee  In terms of the e-logs, the electronic on-board recorders, it's a small percentage obviously, because it's fairly new and there are more costs involved. But some of the larger firms, such as RTL-Westcan and us, have almost 100% electronic logs, and it has been nothing but benefic

Transport committee  The technology is there. It's available, like you mention.

Transport committee  Absolutely, and predominantly Canadian.

Transport committee  It's ready. It's there. It's available and it's not that expensive. So we feel that it's time to put it forward it, to mandate it.

Transport committee  That's a tough question. Each incident is really an isolated incident, whether it involves a driver fault or improper loading or improper paperwork as a result of the incident or due to the extent of the spill or its impact. Who is responsible for what and to what exact extent

Transport committee  At our association we support that as well. It would bring us to the next level that we need to be at as an industry. Paper logs are vulnerable, if you want to use that word, but electronic logs are the way of the future for our industry. More and more carriers have them, whether

Transport committee  Each driving school today is private. We put out the standards and push what the industry recommends and supports, but in certain capacities there should be some mandatory entry-level training for drivers. That would bring us to the next level for our industry and would put struc

Transport committee  The entire responsibility, if there is an issue, lies with the driver and the carrier; therefore, when working so closely with shippers in loading and unloading product, there should be some sort of responsibility from a shipper's standpoint to be properly trained to know which d

Transport committee  In some capacity you need to report every incident, I'm assuming, to Transport Canada, but every province obviously legislates the safety stats of each carrier, which would incorporate their entire record in there.

Transport committee  As an industry, we all follow the national safety code, but it's up to the province to enforce it. Essentially, that's how the industry is set up today.

Transport committee  That's right.