As if carbon tax, output based pricing, oil and gas emissions cap, Clean Fuel Regulations, Clean Electricity Regulation, and EV mandate weren’t enough, apparently the federal government has now decreed that for the sake of saving the planet from climate change, no more than 10 % of new heavy trucks (Kenworth being the example in this story) can be sold with a manual transmission. And that’s coming in just a few weeks time.
Several Kenworth models will be discontinued. In southern Saskatchewan, the vast majority of trucks in the patch that I see are Kenworth.
To quote C-3P0, “This is madness!
The gov’t is dangerous and out of control. Has been for decades.
You voted for this very government in the last two elections. Own it.
Will everyone rush to their Kenworth dealership to be put on the waiting list for the 1 out of 10 manual transmission trucks, in order to be first in line to get it once they sell 9 Slushboxes?
Canada has to get rid of this communist administration. Remember, Justin is the puppet, none of this comes out of his brain, it’s all from behind the curtain. They can’t be anywhere near power.
It’s the unelected and unaccountable senior bureaucrats who are behind all this.
I agree that the people behind this government are the problem. Sadly another supposedly conservative government will not do anything about this.
If they actually did and rightly fired everyone and reversed everything they had enacted, I would then have to consider that government as actually representing conservatism and the people.
Until then, I will continue to regard them as a fake controlled opposition puppet party. One that answers to the same people behind the curtain as the other overtly leftist parties.
It’s nothing that can’t be reversed with an election – which can’t come soon enough!
Maybe it IS time for some “help” from the US…
He told us from the beginning what his plan was…& enough MSM fed brain dead people bought into his “sunnyways BS” & gave him another chance to complete h is mission of Destroying CANADA, with Jughead at his side,
These MOFO’s want the Complete & utter destruction of CANADA with an Heavy Emphasis on our Energy Sector.
I’d have ZERO issue seeing the 82nd & 10st Airborne Landing in OTTAWA & literally take over the HOC.
Arrest the entire Liberal, NDP, Green Parties & Kick the Bloc back to Quebec….
CANADA to me is DONE.
Steakman: “I’d have ZERO issue seeing the 82nd & 10st Airborne Landing in OTTAWA & literally take over the HOC. Arrest the entire Liberal, NDP, Green Parties & Kick the Bloc back to Quebec….”
Actually, me ‘n a few of the boys down at the bar were talking about invading Canada and taking over. We have 4 guys from the Cajun navy, a couple good ol’ boys each from Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, and one from Kentucky who said he was in.
Do you think that’s enough to take on the Canadian military and be home for the holidays or is it overkill?
I like the way you think.
Nothwithstanding The Governor of Gay North Dakota.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-announces-plan-to-annex-canada-and-rename-it-gay-north-dakota
What about the M-1 tank???
I must conclude that our government is actively trying to kill us in slo-mo.
They are taking away the infrastructure that sustains us one item at a time. When there are no more trucks, there will be no more goods delivered to grocers or meds to drug stores.
They are working hard to eliminate those things so that we comply or die …. not sure what it is we must comply with … maybe we don’t … maybe they just want population reduction.
Warning …. do not wait until you are starving and too weak to do anything about this. “Fight Fight Fight”
How many businesses will just abandon Canada?
“This is madness!”
Madness?
No…
(you know the rest)
And it’s way past time.
I’m getting tired of the rhetorical flourish too.
No, it is not madness. It is an attack on the West and on oil infrastructure.
It is the death by 1000 cuts. Make enough little wounds like this one, and the industry dies. Enough industries die, and Canada dies. Then the Chicoms (or whoever) can swoop in and buy up the wreckage cheap.
Trump came out and said it the other day to #ShinyPony, right in his face. “Canada can’t get by without ripping us off for $100 billion?”
Can a truck be brought up from the USA? They are not going to stop making a truck that the rest of the world want for the sake of a small population of Canada. There will be an end run of some type. Yes canadas so called leaders, administrators and bureaucrats are evil.
Grey market will take up the slack. When manual transmissions are a crime, organized crime comes to the rescue.
There’s a nice sideline for somebody. Fake VINs and paperwork for otherwise legit late-model manual trucks smuggled from the USA.
Fred the Fed take note, you heard it here first. Time to clean house at Ministry of Transport, those clerks are eating your lunch.
“madness” should be “maNdATEness”
the problem with bureaucratic mandates it leaves the decisions and parameters to those CLUELESS about the mechanics and processes of the REAL WORLD situations being targeted. gawd almighty l hate liberals.
L- Has the introduction of automatic transmissions into big rigs helped to facilitate bringing
in 3rd worlders, without the experience and training, to drive big rigs safely in Canada. The
scandal still not addressed, after the Humboldt Broncos tragedy due to someone: not at all
qualified, allowing 3rd worlders to operate “training schools” at 3rd world standards and
then somehow being granted a 1A licence by provincial governments. All this seems to be
for the sole purpose of lowering the wages of drivers towards 3rd world levels.
While no politicians, no MSM, no public safety institutions expose how deadly dangerous
Canadians roads have become, due to adopting this 3rd world level of corruption! !
This isn’t a secret in the industry, as every retired 1A driver, I’ve ever talked to mentions it.
But, of course in a post-nation state, there is no truth. There is only power to control …
well, …everything.
Just like it’s too hard to get famous by being a hero, so many losers try instead for infamy by being a villian, it’s too hard for Socialists to make all Canadians happy, healthy and wealthy since so many don’t want to do the necessary work, it’s much easier to make everybody miserable, sickly and poor. We’re well on our way to being equal now.
The introduction of auto shift has led to a situation where many drivers cannot drive a standard shift properly, despite having a license which legally allows them to drive a truck with any transmission they want. Ostensibly, auto shift is better on fuel mileage. But it’s also a much more expensive transmission. But cost is no object when you goal is to change the temperature of the earth.
Question. What has KW, or for that matter, any other heavy truck manufacturer, done about this?
Maybe Dennis (above) has kind of answered this. Perhaps they’re content to sit back and collect the extra dollars.
Mack trucks already sell about 90% of their vehicles with an Automated Manual transmission or Automatic Transmission, so this won’t affect them now, but I’m sure it will when the next dictate comes from the government to reduce the AMT to 10%.
Alberta and Saskatchewan will either secede, or be destroyed. Of course, once they are destroyed the remainder of Canada will collapse as well, because those two provinces and their productive economies are essential to the nation.
We would welcome you as the 51st and 52nd states. Quit sitting on your hands.
What does an automatic transmission have to do with emissions? From my experience, standards in cars and pick-ups always got better fuel milieage.
It’s hard to drive a manual in sandals.
Therefore manual transmissions are racist and discriminatory.
10-speed automatic beats 5-speed stick for mileage (theoretically, according to “studies” anyway) and that’s why all your pickups are 10-speed automatics now. Because CAFE standards go by -fleet- emissions, the emissions of the total number of vehicles produced in a year. I don’t know what the “studies” say for big trucks, but I bet they had to work hard to “prove” that automatics are “better”. Quotes indicating sarcasm of course, because truckers KNOW what gets them the best fuel mileage and overall performance, and that’s what they buy. The stick.
Automatics are good for soccer moms and trucking -companies- who want to hire Somali goat herders at $10/hr under the table. Your average goat herder can’t manage a truck with 18 speeds and a clutch without some very expensive training, a slushbox makes the training much cheaper. Which may have had quite an effect on the fuel mileage “studies,” nudge nudge, wink wink.
Personally I prefer something that shifts when I want it to, rather than when it deems necessary after meeting all the parameters and requirements decreed by the All-Knowing Programmers. After all, the programmers aren’t sitting in the truck with me, they don’t know if I need a frickin’ down-shift RIGHT NOW, not when it is best for fuel mileage.
Down deep under everything else, mandating an automatic shows a condescension toward the operator that borders on hatred. “The poor things can’t be expected to know what’s best, you know. Peasants, after all. We, who have read the “studies,” shall decide when to shift. And everything else about the drive.”
Co 2 is not a [pollutant and all think it is are stupid beyond belief.
Quite correct. Neither is methane. Even the solvents used in autobody manufacturing. The terpenes produced by evergreen contribute to a higher local atmospheric organics load than those produced by the old-school enamel and laquer paints.
To further your point. Anyone who calles carbon dioxide a pollutant is either a) an institutional clown b) a MotherWEFFER c) ignorant and does not want to be educated d) a moron.
Much like how handguns magically became illegal overnight, so will anything else we need for survival in this frozen wasteland. They will cheat, lie & steal to get their way.
Never give “them” what they want.
“apparently the federal government has now decreed…”
Correction: “the doomed federal government has now decreed…”
Always glad to help.
As usual this site has come to hate the truth. Kate cowardice is still cowardice is still cowardice.
Potato knows that he is not going to get reelected so he is going for broke, told you Maxipads but you did not want to listen.
Jessica going full Max Derangement Syndrome, again.
Everything potato does is on you, you helped electing him and are too much of a coward to admit your responsibility. Just as I said you would when you helped electing him. Pathetic whore.
For those that like to see from behind the wheel what oilfield truckings is like, Timelapse Trucker has an interesting channel on the you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5YYN4b2-mQ
I was at a Moose Jaw truck stop a few years back when Mo pulled in and missed a turn or something and had to back up. The place is made for a straight drive up and park but Mo screwed up somewhere trying to figure out how the system worked. No problem he’ll just back in. He starts back and can’t resist cranking the steering wheel.
He’s jack knifed almost immediately. Pulls ahead and tries again. Jack knifed the other way. After 3 attempts he leaves the truck. He’s taking up 3 or 4 spaces himself but hey he can pull out and hit the highway.