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“When they have concluded we will do our own. It won’t take any more than 72 hours,” he said.

Meanwhile, the company’s licence to operate has been suspended while investigators look at things like drivers logs and records of the company’s vehicles. Mason said the company began operation in the fall, has no violations on its record and appears to have been compliant “up until this point.”

In an email, Graeme McElheran, director of communications for Alberta Transportation, said the company’s risk factor prior to the incident was rated at zero, “due in part to its performance and in part to the fact that its Alberta operation is only a few months old.”

The company does have one Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance inspection defect from the Northwest Territories for violating the federal hours of service regulation.

“This is a minor infraction,” McElheran said. “If it happened in Alberta, the sanction might be to ensure that the driver took time to rest. Escalating sanctions could apply, such as fines and other enforcement action, as the infraction required.”

Singh declined to identify the male driver, but did say the man is the only other driver aside from Singh who works for the small trucking company.

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In an open letter to the semi driver shared online more than 139,000 times online, an Ottawa woman says she hopes the driver will “be able to heal” as families, victims and the rest of the country does the same.

“As we all sit back and contemplate everything that has occurred since the collision and start to process the massive emotional impact of the death of 15 people, I want you to know you are in our minds too,” the letter reads. “Please know that some of us are thinking of you as well.”