Gord Magill
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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When you were on tour in Australia, yeah.
So off that coast, there's one of the world's largest deposits of natural gas.
And so I was hauling equipment and drilling mud and salt and all the different things they need on drilling rigs.
And there was also an onshore natural gas processing facility in a little place called Onslow.
I hauled equipment and scrap and all kinds of stuff in and out of.
I used to haul some things to Newman.
So yeah, but on the question of changing tires and fixing your own equipment, when you're in these remote areas, you have to be able to sort of do that.
You have to have a skill level and a competency level to look after your gear.
And that is something that, you know, has at least here in America and Canada been slowly been attacked, right?
They don't want you to change your own tire, just call a tire guy.
They don't want you working on the track.
They're like, they've attacked the idea that you are, uh,
a skilled competent operator that knows what you're doing right because they want things done cheap get somebody that's just a steering wheel holder and you know does what they're told and looks into the driver facing camera and you know submits to the electronic logging device that manages your hours and you know don't even just don't you know you don't you don't have any choice you don't have any agency behind the wheel anymore right that's what that's what the industry is moving towards before you know nothing about the machine you're just the guy holding the steering wheel
That's the system in place to train drivers in North America, for the most part, operates on that premise.
In many ways, yes.
So if you're going down a steep grid,
And you lose control of your truck or the brakes burn off because you're going down the hill not knowing what you're doing.
You weren't trained properly.
You're supposed to go into one of these lanes.
And, you know, it slows you down so you don't wreck, right?
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