Comments on: P.E.I. to make MELT mandatory from Aug. 5 https://www.trucknews.com/human-resources/p-e-i-to-make-melt-mandatory-from-aug-5/1003187150/ Trucking news from the editors of Today's Trucking Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:49:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Stephen Webster https://www.trucknews.com/human-resources/p-e-i-to-make-melt-mandatory-from-aug-5/1003187150/#comment-497076 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:49:11 +0000 https://www.trucknews.com/?p=1003187150#comment-497076 In reply to James Gladstone.

I disagree spending time in a passenger seat does nothing. I agree that it needs to be the current melt standard plus another 3 months with a experienced driver of those at leat 240 hours the other driver sit in the passenger seat or on a driver simulation machine
I think we should take people straight out of high-school and have them spend 500 hours of training plus 2000 hrs fixing under a shop like setting repairing trucks and trailer or spend 8 months in a class D Z and 4 months in a shop like setting and then upgrading to pull a B train and unit with manual transmission. We need to test all truck drivers that haul and drive for farmers as well. We also need to push young people to look at becoming mechanics and other skilled trade people in my opinion.

]]> By: James Gladstone https://www.trucknews.com/human-resources/p-e-i-to-make-melt-mandatory-from-aug-5/1003187150/#comment-496993 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:21:25 +0000 https://www.trucknews.com/?p=1003187150#comment-496993 Not enough! To get a license to swing a hammer or plumbing is around 7500 hours of on the job. So operating a large vehicle should probably require a little more than 240 hours. New drivers should spend a year in someone’s passenger seat with a driver with real experience teaching how to operate a truck properly in all possible situations. It should b a skilled trade like carpentry or plumbing ect.

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