When did people stop checking the thickness of the ice before driving on it? What's the hurry to go wreck the truck and trailer?

https://www.facebook.com/shane.marietti.9/posts/1756915644439367

but there are a lot of guys who aren't playing it smart and waiting until the ice is thick enough, like 3 trucks and trailers on Lake Winnipeg

https://www.ckdr.net/2019/12/09/a-lesson-learned/
https://www.facebook.com/truenorthtracktruck
https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2019-12-11-lake-winnipeg-fishermen-ice-canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/trucks-people-trailer-go-through-ice-balsam-bay-1.5389589

Jim Staricha owns Northland Towing in Isle, Minn., near Lake Mille Lacs. He specializes in recovery of vehicles that break through ice. He has personally driven vehicles through lake ice and, as a scuba diver, has been pinned under vehicles, underwater, during recoveries.

Staricha's advice about ice travel during an uneven early winter like this?

Stay off thin ice. No fish is worth it. If you have to be in your trailer, tow it into your backyard and watch TV in it.

for the other advice on how to not break through, like drive show, windows down, etc http://m.startribune.com/jim-staricha-ice-recovery-man-tells-what-to-do-when-the-ice-gives-way/461544403/

The word on Facebook is that it's a 500 dollar fine, per day, for the duration of how long a vehicle is underwater