Driver and Vehicle

This page offers links to a variety of services and information related to driver and vehicle.

• After an Auto Accident - Understanding the Steps
  If you have been in an automobile accident the information here will provide you with assistance in understanding the steps you will need to take to report your accident and notify your insurance company.
• Driver and Vehicle Online Services
  Use your credit card online to quickly and securely renew your licence plate validation sticker, obtain an electronic driver or vehicle abstract, order a personalized licence plate or a Used Vehicle Information Package
• Change Your Home Address
  Change your home address online and update your Ontario driver’s licence, vehicle registration, health card and Outdoors card quickly, securely and free of charge.
• Vehicle Plate Validation Sticker Renewal
  Details on renewing vehicle plates.
• Vehicle Licensing
  Information about vehicle licensing in Ontario and other related links such as renewing, replacing or buying personalized vehicle plates; getting or changing information on a vehicle; buying and selling used vehicles; etc.
• Driver Licensing
  This section of the website contains informational links for getting an Ontario driver's licence, renewing it, how to get your driving record, seniors driving, demerit point system, etc.
• Buy a French slogan licence plate
  Starting May 30, 2008, you may purchase a French slogan vehicle licence plate. It is available for purchase at any ServiceOntario Driver and Vehicle Licence Issuing Office in Ontario.
• Driver Training Courses
  This section contains informational links to ministry approved driver training courses.
• Senior Drivers in Ontario
  This website provides information for drivers, aged 80 years and over, on what's required to renew their driver's licence.
• Buying, Selling or Transferring Used Vehicles
  By Ontario law, private sellers of most motor vehicles, including motorcycles, must provide buyers with a Used Vehicle Information Package. This package guides you through the process of buying or selling and helps you understand your rights and responsibilities.
• Accessible Parking Permits - Changing the Information
  Information on how to change the address or name on an Accessible Parking Permit with links to relevant applications.
• Accessible Parking Permits - Getting or Replacing
  The Accessible Parking Permit (APP) is issued to individuals and entitles the vehicle in which it is displayed to be parked in a designated accessible parking space. This webpage contains information on how to get, replace or report a stolen Accessible Parking Permit (APP), who is eligible for an APP and the types of APP's issued.
• Book a road test
  Welcome to the online Road Test Booking System. This service allows Ontario licensed drivers to book or cancel a road test.
• Drivers and vehicle information
  This section contains informational links related to driver and vehicle licensing, as well as information about transportation related products and services, service locations, parking permits, vehicle impoundment program and publications.
• Impaired Driving
  Impaired driving, which means driving when your ability is affected by alcohol or drugs, is a crime and you can be convicted under the Criminal Code of Canada. As a result, you may lose your licence, be fined, or spend time in jail.
• Driver Safety
  Links to tips for driver safety such as checking your blind spot, yielding the right of way, speed limit, aggressive driving and road rage, medical conditions to report, etc.
• Emergency Vehicles
  Links to information regarding clearing the way for emergency vehicles and watching for emergency vehicles.
• School Buses
  Links to school bus safety resource guide, school bus safety: information for riders, parents and motorists, school bus safety smarts, and illegal passing of a school bus.
• Vehicle Safety
  Links to information about sharing the road with trucks, pulling a trailer safely, having your vehicle serviced regularly, and reporting collision.
• Vehicle Impoundment Program
  Ontario’s Vehicle Impoundment Program is aimed at making Ontario’s roads safer. Vehicles driven in Ontario by persons apprehended for driving while their licence is suspended for a Criminal Code conviction will be impounded for a minimum of 45 days. This section of the website links to information about driver licence validity check, Commercial Vehicle Impoundment Program (CVIP), impaired driving, and the Licence Appeal Tribunal.
• Dispute Resolution Services - Auto Accidents
  Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) is the branch of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) that helps claimants and insurance companies (the parties) resolve accident benefits disputes. Services include mediation, arbitration, neutral evaluation, appeal, and variation and revocation.
• Educational Auto Rate Tutorial
  Many considerations come into play when insurance companies set auto insurance rates.The following information is designed to provide you with a basic overview of some of the factors that affect the cost of auto insurance. As well, helpful tips on how you can save money on your auto insurance are also provided.
• Shop Around and Save on Auto Insurance (PDF)
  Auto insurance is sold in Ontario either through insurance brokers, agents or direct writers.
• What to do if You Have an Insurance Complaint
  The Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) oversees the operation of a system that ensures all insurance complaints are dealt with professionally, speedily and subject to review by an independent body.Often the fastest way for a consumer to resolve a complaint is to deal directly with the company where the problem first arose.
• Tips for Identifying Auto Insurance Scams (PDF)
  This brochure provides tips on how to avoid auto insurance scams, and help eliminate them too. It has been published by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO), an arm’s-length agency of the Ministry of Finance that regulates financial services sectors, including insurance. FSCO works to enhance public confidence in, and access to, a fair and efficient financial services industry in Ontario.
• Protecting Yourself When Renting an Auto (PDF)
  Familiarize yourself with some of the alternatives to the collision damage waiver offered by your auto rental company.
• Clean Air Online
  Learn more about the National Vehicle Scrappage Program
• Drive Clean
  Drive Clean is Ontario's mandatory vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program that is reducing vehicle emissions of smog-causing pollutants by requiring vehicles to undergo an emissions test to identify emissions problems and have them repaired.