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    Default Lafarge Canada wants to rat on you for speeding.

    Edmonton Journal is reporting that the concrete company Lafarge Canada wants to be involved with tackling "speeders." Looks like Edmonton may be the first place where they allow such a thing.

    Lafarge Canada volunteered its slow-moving concrete trucks as pace cars Friday in Edmonton’s push to reduce speeding and traffic fatalities.

    But the partnership could go further, said Bruce Willmer, regional vice-president for Lafarge Canada, after addressing city councillors on traffic safety Friday. The company’s next step is to install forward and back-facing cameras in its trucks, connected to its on-board GPS.

    If someone speeds dangerously past a truck equipped like that, the data could be turned over to enforcement, he said. “Those are the sorts of things we would look at, yes. … We’ve just started talking to the city and we’ll see where it goes.”

    Lafarge Canada has 60 drivers and 100 trucks in the Edmonton area navigating around sometimes unpredictable children on bikes and regular traffic. In January 2016, one was involved in a fatal pedestrian collision, killing a 49-year-old woman in a downtown Edmonton crosswalk. That wasn’t the first for Lafarge in Canada.

    The company installed GPS on all its trucks in 2015, and rolled out a driver-feedback program in 2016. Now it requires drivers to roll 10 km/h under the speed limit and avoid hard braking, fast accelerating or high-speed turns.

    The system gives drivers and their bosses real-time alerts to let the company coach its drivers. That gives “better fuel economy, less maintenance and less risk without affecting trip times,” said Willmer.

    “What we found is that it really hasn’t affected our delivery times or cost,” said Willmer, since trucks stop often in urban situations anyway.

    Willmer also asked councillors to help with an education campaign for cyclists and pedestrians. “We can do everything we can to wrap the truck in plastic, but we still need to make sure children and people crossing crosswalks understand that they’re not always seen.”

    Councillors embraced the idea of working with Lafarge Canada and asked city officials to explore what that means.
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    Talk about misplaced priorities and a poorly thought out plan.

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    ughh... just what we need... more photo radar/surveillance enforcement on everything we do in our cars.
    But any publicity is good publicity amirite?

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    What an awful idea

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    I would like to see them lose business over this...bunch of rats.

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    Originally posted by Sugarphreak
    What a bunch of fucking ass clowns... here is an idea, focus on being a concrete product and delivery company instead of playing captain vigilante in traffic

    Going forward I am actively going to start looking at alternatives for Lafarge products to specify
    Inland Lehigh anyone??

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    If someone speeds dangerously past a truck equipped like that, the data could be turned over to enforcement, he said. “Those are the sorts of things we would look at, yes. … We’ve just started talking to the city and we’ll see where it goes.”
    So if I pass a slow moving concrete truck as quick as I can as to alleviate the safety concerns of being in the opposing traffic lane (in a passing zone on a highway), they'll rat on me? Good work Lafarge.
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    I don't even...

    No really. Those words are the response I can come up with. I don't even:

    Know how to respond
    Know what to think of this
    Understand how a company ceo gets to have this mindset

    I mean, who in the HELL does he think he is? Complete loss of words. 1984 is real afterall, when private corporations start colluding with government to punish its citizens.

    Like what in the actual f&$k? Am i the only one alarmed about this??

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    How can this possibly even be being considered, yet alone legal? If vigilantism is being allowed now, where does it end? Jesus fuck.
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    k boys, let's learn from the PR nightmares from other companies lately. What do you got Jimmy? yadayadayada

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    A bunch of concrete guys squeeling to the cops. Oh the irony.

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    Originally posted by Buster
    A bunch of concrete guys squeeling to the cops. Oh the irony.
    I wouldn't put the blame on the front end guys. I don't think they want gps monitoring in their trucks anymore than we want this garbage.

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    Nanny State and surveillance really are getting out of control and if it doesn't concern you, you're part of the problem with society.

    There's going to be one hell of an uprising one year if this trend continues too long term.
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    Driving in Calgary confuses the fk out of me sometimes. When I pass someone I can feel the power of the force like that person wants to kill me. Maybe it's just me but the amount of road rage I witness here is nuts. Do people need to get out more or Calgary is just the worst?

    Driving down the narrow roads in other countries for example, the trucks in front of you will signal right to let you know it's safe to pass them. I thought to myself, that's fantastic. On busy roads it's organized chaos, no one blocking you into the lane, etc. No one calling the cops because you cut them off haha

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    Which is worse PR, this or the parent company funding ISIS? Might be a tie lol

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    Hmmm
    Now it requires drivers to roll 10 km/h under the speed limit and avoid hard braking, fast accelerating or high-speed turns.
    That sounds like something one might want to speed past

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    Taken right out the Earls book of ingenious business decision making.

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    Originally posted by schocker
    Hmmm

    That sounds like something one might want to speed past
    hahahaha imagine how frustrating that must be as a driver for Lafarge too, driving 10kph under everywhere you go..

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    You people are hilarious. This is pretty much a non-issue if it goes through as I can usually count on one finger how many times I see a LaFarge truck on the streets in Calgary in my daily travels and often it will be in an area where no passing is allowed anyway and the speed limit is 50kph.

    Besides that, I will assume y'all are smart enough to adjust your driving habits for where the red light/speed-on-green cameras are - well, these LaFarge trucks should be even more obvious than camera on a pole. Another factor to consider here, how likely is it that video or photo evidence from concrete truck will even be admissible in court - how would anyone know what your speed is as the only reference would be road markings or stationary objects and I highly doubt the GPS devices in these trucks are going to calibrated as often as EPS' radar and lidar units as that speed would be the base from which any charge could started from.

    Next thing you know we'll be getting speeding tickets in the mail based on Calgary's Bluetooth traffic monitoring system - ya know the estimated time/distance signs on Deerfoot and elsewhere.
    Will fuck off, again.

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