A Canadian truck driver with three weeks of training has been sentenced to 8 years after he caused a crash that killed 16 people traveling on a hockey team’s bus.
Investigators inspecting his paper log found he committed 70 violations of federal and provincial trucking violations in 11 days leading up the crash.
The trucker’s former employer has been charged and accused of failing to maintain driver logs, not monitoring driver safety compliance and having more than one daily log on a given day.
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