I've been pulling the RGN around for the last 3 weeks, moving yellow paint from NJ to Toronto. Today I'm pulling a grapple bucket, a back hoe and a dozer. The dozer is OD and the blade is hanging over the side of the trailer 14 inches. A while ago I just got fed up with being cut off and al the other antics that go on and I finally decided I needed to protect myself if something bad ever happened so now I run a dash camera. Here's what happened today.
Here's the link to the dash cam video. There was a car behind the Fortel truck. I got on the brakes until the back of his trailer cleared my nose then swerved to the left as much as I could. I'm not sure if that was the few inches the trooper needed or not. I still get chills watching it. All I could think about afterward was....what if I hit him and he had kids......
Dozer blade vs trooper near miss - YouTube
I was pretty ticked off. So I did a google search on Fortel trucking. Seems they're run by a new canadian that goes by the name of Singh something.
Fortel Express « Brampton, ON « Trucking Companies
They've had authority revoked and reopened under a different dot number.
http://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/pkg_carrquery.prc_authorityhistory?pv_apcant_id=56 4078&pv_legal_name=6667619^CANADA^INC&pv_pref_dock et=MC647222&pv_usdot_no=1773278&pv_vpath=LIVIEW
This is what CSA 2010 has to say about the old DOT number
Carrier Overview
And the new DOT number ain't much better
Carrier Overview