Meyers Transport of Belleville knows what it’s like for the London trucker charged by the O-P-P for smoking in his rig last week.
Company official Joe Ball says Meyers was charged under the Smoke-Free Ontario Act by a Peterborough Health Unit officer.
Meyers could have been fined as much as ten-thousand dollars, and the case went all the way to Superior Court, but the charges were dropped inexpicably on the first day of the hearings at the request of the Ministry of Health Promotion.
Ball estimates 60 to 70 per cent of Meyers’ drivers smoke, and he says it would be almost impossible to enforce a no-smoking rule in the trucks.
