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Originally Posted by Dynamic
IMO is seemed to be working before but then the Humboldt tragedy happened. Then it became this blanket policy of "well if we are including truck drivers we NEED to include school bus drivers" and it just kept rolling from there. More of knee jerk reaction and its very hard to argue against extra training for school bus drivers. I just think nobody thought about all the other negative outcomes from creating that new significant barrier for what is already a pretty thankless and low paying job.
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That certainly MAY have happened but again that isn’t using data to make decisions. Alberta is the only jurisdiction with this training policy
So are bus drivers shortages more acute in Alberta? Google says they were occurring elsewhere in Canada as well
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Did Alberta incidents / km go down after implementing this policy and how did that compare to other jurisdictions to discount Covid affects.
This info would be available for governments. Again this may be the right decision, it may be impacting driver availability, it also may not be.