No matter the road conditions, it’s nearly impossible to drive down an Alberta highway without seeing a commercial truck barrelling down flat prairie roads or through the unrelenting Rockies.

While trucks have gotten more sophisticated and the goods they carry more complex, training hasn’t kept pace with the modern changes to the industry or the population growth Alberta has seen in the last few years, said Aaron Sutherland, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s (IBC) vice-president of Pacific and Western regions.