Module 1: Ontario’s approach to commercial vehicle safety
Summary
This module covers the responsibilities and regulations for commercial vehicle operator’s registration (CVOR) certificate holders in Ontario. It focuses on Ontario’s safety standards and the consequences of non-compliance.
The topics in this module are:
- Ontario’s highways
- the Ministry of Transportation’s (MTO)
- a North American approach
- important acts and regulations
- outside of Ontario
- the National Safety Code (NSC)
- NSC standards: driver licensing
- NSC standards: commercial regime
- compliance programs and tools, including:
- driver and vehicle inspections
- consequences of failed inspections
- commercial vehicle impoundment
- consequences of impoundment
- speed limiter
- enforcement
- the DriveON program
- CVOR program and safety ratings
- MTO interventions
- alternative triggers
- MTO sanctions
Safety module
Updated: March 27, 2025
Published: March 18, 2025