RCMP have publicly identified the log truck driver killed near Fort St. James on Wednesday as Robert Joseph Kandler, 44, of Prince George. He died in a collision with another logging truck near the 62-kilometre mark of the North Road, near Fort St. James. The road connects Fort St. James to Germanson Landing.

No information is yet available about what might have caused the two trucks to collide. The investigation is ongoing.

It’s the first fatality involving a logging truck in northern B.C. in 14 months. Logging truck drivers lead the death toll in the forest sector in northern B.C. Although no logging truck drivers were killed in 2007 in northern B.C., more than 30 logging truck drivers and other forestry drivers have been killed since 1995.