Changes to CVOR Program
Effective as of December 1, 2008, commercial vehicle operators (holder of CVORs) will be required to renew their registrations every year. Existing (non-expiring) certificates are being assigned an expiry date over a two-year transition period. New applicants for CVOR certificates will be assigned an expiry date at time of issuance.
Renewal will be required annually after the transition period. Carriers converted in the first year of the transition period will receive an expiry date of two years. Carriers converted in year two will have a one year expiry assigned. After transition, annual renewal will be required for all operators except those operators with carrier safety ratings of "satisfactory" or "excellent". These operators will only be required to renew their certificate every two years.
Operators will be sent a notice of expiry 60 days prior to expiry (90 days during the transition period). A carrier that does not renew prior to the expiry date is liable to a fine and possibly to imprisonment, under section 21(2) of the Highway Traffic Act, if one or more of its commercial motor vehicles is found operating on an Ontario highway. In addition, subsection 20(2) authorizes a police officer to detain the vehicle and seize the permits and number plates of the vehicle until it can be moved in compliance with the Act.
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Improvements to Ontario's registration program for commercial vehicle operators will help keep the province's roads safer. This will allow the Ministry of Transportation to better monitor companies' safety performance and take early action to address safety concerns.
A new education program is being developed to help all new truck and bus companies in Ontario understand the rules and requirements to safely operate their business. About 5,000 new companies will be required to complete this program each year.
The ministry has 300 Enforcement Officers who inspect more than 100,000 trucks and buses every year. Fifty additional officers have been hired to inspect more vehicles across the province.
QUICK FACTS
• Over one million commercial trucks and buses have been inspected in Ontario since 1998.
• The number of fatal collisions involving large trucks dropped by 37 percent between 1990 and 2005, even while there were 56 percent more large trucks registered in the province.