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Cites Humboldt crash: Alberta making driver training for new truckers mandatory

Jul 10, 2018 | 4:36 PM

CALGARY — Alberta is making driver training mandatory as early as next January for new commercial truckers.

Transportation Minister Brian Mason says the province had been working on improvements, but the horrific Humboldt Broncos bus crash was the impetus to get changes in place as soon as possible.

Sixteen people were killed in rural Saskatchewan in April when the Broncos team bus and a semi-truck owned by a Calgary-based shipper collided.

The truck driver, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, faces 29 criminal charges including 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death.