For the second time in as many months, an impaired dump truck driver was pulled over in Burnaby.It has since been revealed that both drivers worked for the same company, which the RCMP is refusing to identify.According to the Burnaby RCMP, the most recent incident took place on July 3 on Boundary Rd. After witnessing the fully loaded vehicle "cross over the centre line and swerve into the right lane several times" before "hitting the raised centre median."The driver was stopped at Marine Way and Roseberry Ave., where the driver failed a sobriety test and was subsequently handed a 90-day driving prohibition. The dump truck was impounded for 30 days, and three violation tickets totalling over $1,300 were issued.Burnaby RCMP described it as "déjà vu," recalling that the first driver failed the same sobriety test less than two months earlier just a couple hundred metres from where his colleague was later stopped."This is becoming too much of a regular occurrence in the Lower Mainland," Burnaby RCMP Traffic Services' Cst. Kevin Connolly said. "While we can't share the company's name, we have forwarded the details of this incident, linked to the previous incident in May, to the Ministry of Transportation and Transit's Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement to ensure they have the most up to date information for their investigation of the carrier’s operations."The RCMP also refused to share the name of either driver.
