2 dump truck drivers from same company stopped for impaired driving in Burnaby, RCMP say

Burnaby RCMP shared this photo of the dump truck being towed away for its 30-day impound. (Burnaby RCMP)

Mounties in Burnaby say they’re having “bad déjà vu” after stopping a second impaired dump truck driver working for the same company as the one they stopped back in May.

Burnaby RCMP said they “can’t share the company’s name,” but have forwarded the details of the incident to the Ministry of Transportation and Transit’s Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement unit “to ensure they have the most up to date information for their investigation of the carrier’s operations.”

The latest incident occurred on July 3, Burnaby RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.

The detachment’s “designated commercial vehicle enforcement officer” was driving behind the loaded truck on Boundary Road, according to police.

The southbound truck was in the left lane, but the officer saw it “cross over the centre line and swerve into the right lane several times,” police said.

“The dump truck was also observed hitting the raised centre median as it continued to swerve down Boundary Road,” the release reads.

The officer stopped the truck on Marine Way at Roseberry Avenue, where the driver failed a sobriety test and received a 90-day driving prohibition, police said.

They impounded the vehicle for 30 days and issued three violation tickets totalling more than $1,300.

The driver Mounties stopped in May received the same consequences after being pulled over “a couple hundred metres east” of where the more recent incident occurred, according to police.

“This is becoming too much of a regular occurrence in the Lower Mainland,” said Const. Kevin Connolly, of Burnaby RCMP’s Traffic Services, in the release.

In addition to the May incident, B.C. Highway Patrol officers stopped an impaired dump truck driver in Chilliwack back in April.

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