Module 8: Vehicle maintenance
Summary
This module covers the different types of vehicle inspections and the various requirements of each.
The topics in this module are:
- vehicle maintenance and inspection program
- design and implement a maintenance program
- minimum requirements
- best practice
- prescribed performance standards
- additional carrier responsibilities
- inspection
- employee understanding
- implement
- vehicle files and records
- monitoring
- periodic mandatory commercial vehicle inspection (PMCVI)
- what PMCVI is
- why PMCVIs are required
- when PMCVIs are required
- annual inspection
- semi-annual inspection
- possible exemptions from inspections
- who can perform a PMCVI
- how the inspection is performed
- Ontario DriveON program
- daily inspection
- what a daily inspection is
- why daily inspections are performed
- who performs daily inspections
- daily inspection reports
- how daily inspections are performed
- daily inspection schedules
- driver and carrier responsibilities
- consequences
- charges
- no trip inspection report or schedule (driver)
- expired annual inspection (carrier)
- major defect (driver)
- charges
Safety module
Updated: March 27, 2025
Published: March 18, 2025