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Challenging BC’s Best of the Best Vehicle Inspectors

January 6, 2023July 4, 2016 4 Comments

The hustle. The sweat. The pressure to be the best… Commercial vehicle inspectors put their safety sense to the test at the 2016 CVSE Inspectors’ Challenge in Victoria, BC, June 13-17, 2016. The annual competition

Categories Careers, Trucking
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The One Way You Should Drive this Long Weekend

February 13, 2024June 30, 2016 5 Comments

What better way to enjoy the long weekend than getting on the highway and enjoying our provincial backyard? Whether the extra time off is due to BC Day, Family Day, Thanksgiving or any other summer,

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos

Woodenhead a Solid Monument to Highway Safety

July 11, 2022June 7, 2016 17 Comments

A man with a wooden stare is watching over the Trans-Canada Highway at Revelstoke, to see if motorists are driving safely. The man, with his unblinking gaze, was once stationed along the Big Bend Highway

Categories BC Highway History

Powerful Rail Safety Warnings From Around the World

January 5, 2023April 26, 2016 2 Comments

Rail safety matters all the time, and every place there is train tracks. So, we embarked on a tour to four continents to pick out what we thought were the most powerful messages to keep

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers

4 Unseen Engineering Marvels in BC

August 7, 2020March 30, 2016 74 Comments

Engineers are a creative bunch by nature. When faced with a challenging situation, their desire to find a solution is second only to the creativity and analysis they use to overcome that obstacle. The terrain

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers

Is Your Impatience a Safety Concern on the Coq?

January 28, 2020February 2, 2016 5 Comments

There’s an essential rule about sharing the road with snowplows: NEVER pass them on the right. In 2016, there were 11 collisions between cars and snowplows, on one BC highway alone. That’s a lot of

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

The Coquihalla Snowshed Protocol: 10 Steps to Highway Safety

February 25, 2022January 12, 2016 34 Comments

[Note: Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Nicola) Ltd. took over the highway maintenance contract for Service Area 14 as of July 1, 2019] BC Highway 5 from Hope to Merritt (also known as the Coquihalla or

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter, Trucking

15 Seconds to Safety: Clearing Snow Off Your Vehicle

November 24, 2022January 6, 2016 2 Comments

When we asked you about your winter driving pet peeves, one of the most common responses was drivers who don’t clear their entire vehicle of snow. We’ve all seen those rolling snowballs with only the

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter
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