Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection and Enforcement results in 133 charges being laid.

News 100 blueBy Staff

May 25th, 2018

BURLINGTON, ON

 

On Wednesday and Thursday members the Halton Regional Police Service 30 Division – District Response Team, organized a multi–agency Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Safety Inspection and Enforcement campaign at various locations in Burlington.

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Almost one third of the commercial motor vehicle inspections failed.

The HRPS partnered with the O.P.P., MTO and the College of Trades. The results of the combined efforts are as follows:

• Total CMV’s Inspected 127
• Total CMV’s taken out of service 37 (29% failure rate)
• Total Charges Laid 133

The results of the two-day commercial motor vehicle (CMV) inspection and enforcement campaign indicates that commercial motor vehicle operators, who travel on our roadways or through our region each day, need to be more diligent in complying to rules and regulations.

The Burlington CMV Strategy has been developed to address road safety, education and enforcement priorities involving commercial motor vehicles.

This CMV campaign has been identified and implemented in conjunction with the Halton Regional Police Service – Burlington Road Safety Strategy (BRSS). The BRSS was designed to improve the safety on our roadways for all road users.

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3 comments to Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection and Enforcement results in 133 charges being laid.

  • Luke

    Pretty easy money for the HRPS especially when they can fine a driver for a paperwork violation as simple as failure to draw a horizontal line when “Off Duty,” 6 months after the fact.
    Any amount of time over regulation can result in a mandatory 72 hour “Park.”
    I challenge anyone to name one trade where a person can be subject to an arbitrary stop and inspection and have such an outcome.

    Many company drivers do not have much of a choice as to whether or not their unit gets repaired, this is entirely up to the Company. The driver is given the ultimatum of drive or don’t get paid. I suppose because they are only drivers they are not deserving of any sort of leniency. Perhaps they should have “Stayed in school”, rather than make such lousy Life choices.

    When the police start writing tickets to dummy car drivers rolling around at night without full headlights and resultantly no Taillights otherwise known as “Ghost Cars” there will remain a stigma against “Commercial Drivers.” The FTSB has rectified this as of 2020 for you though.
    Cars are more expensive because drivers are increasingly more brain dead and regulations are made to make them “Safer” for a dummy to get behind the wheel.

    I had a driver with an unsecured load lose his Brand new Living room chair on the 403 at Brant Street last Thursday 2 cars in front of me. Had I been loaded some people would still be in Hospital. I stopped parked my vehicle went back up the highway carried the chair to the owners vehicle where I placed and secured it and told him directly, “Get the hell out of my office!”
    Most commercial drivers put more miles in a day than any car driver in a week, incident free. Think about it.

  • Perry Bowker

    I am more concerned that nearly a third of the vehicles tested were TAKEN OF THE ROAD! This is consistent with most other blitzes. These people are shaing the road with us!

  • Phil Waggett

    I operate a commercial vehicle in my summer business. There is no excuse for not having a proper safety done (this has to be done every year) and make sure the vehicle is safe. That said, Halton and other police forces love doing these inspections to raise revenue–the biggie is the paperwork requirements–I keep a detailed binder in my “protect myself from the police” folder. I suspect that the majority of these charges were paperwork violations. That said, there is no excuse. Commercial operators MUST keep their vehicles safe and doing the paperwork properly is insurance against these predatory practices.