A Humboldt Broncos hockey jersey hangs in the lobby of Jim Campbell’s trucking business, serving as a daily reminder of the omnipresent danger on Canada’s highways.

The memory still lingers in the seven years since 16 members of the junior hockey team died and another 13 were injured when their playoff-game-bound bus was struck by a semi-trailer in rural Saskatchewan.

“There’s carnage all across Canada,” Campbell says as he climbs the stairs to his second-storey office at First Class Training Centre.

To offer further proof, he opens Facebook, pulls up a national trucking community page and scrolls through videos of crash scenes and semis in ditches.

According to Statistics Canada, there were 307 fatal crashes and 5,851 injury collisions in 2021 involving straight trucks, tractor trai

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