Landscape Ontario Presentation

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Landscape Ontario Presentation
P r e s e n t e d b y T h e M i n i s t r y
o f T r a n s p o r t a t i o n
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Landscape Ontario What to expect when you are
stopped by the MTO
The first thing an officer will ask you for is
all of your documents such as Drivers
License Registration Proof of Insurance Commercial
Vehicle Operators Registration (CVOR) Daily Trip
Inspection accompanied with Schedule 1
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Drivers License
What type of Drivers Licence is required?
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Drivers License

• CLASS A
• Any combination of a
• motor vehicle and a
• towed vehicle where the
• towed vehicle exceeds
• a gross weight of 4600 kilograms

More then 4600 kg/10120 lbs
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Drivers License

• Class D
• Any motor vehicle exceeding 11,000 kilograms
  gross weight or registered gross weight.
• Any combination of a motor vehicle exceeding a
  total gross weight or registered gross weight of
  11,000 kilograms.
• Towed vehicles not exceeding a total gross weight
  of 4,600 kilograms

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Drivers License

• Class G
• Any motor vehicle not exceeding 11,000 kilograms
  gross weight or registered gross weight, and
• Any combination of a motor vehicle not exceeding
  a total gross weight or registered gross weight
  of 11,000 kilograms.
• Towed vehicles where the towed vehicles do not
  exceed a total gross weight of 4,600 kilograms

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Proof of Insurance

• Make sure your insurance
• is valid and up to date.
• An original copy must be surrendered.
• Either vehicle specific
• or company specific

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Commercial Vehicle Operators Registration

• CVOR is NOT
• Commercial motor vehicle, other than a bus,
  having a gross weight or registered gross weight
  of not more than 4,500 kilograms, an ambulance, a
  fire apparatus,
• a hearse, a casket wagon, a mobile crane, a motor
  home
• or a vehicle commonly known
• as a tow truck,

More then 4500 KG CVOR is required
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Commercial Vehicle Operators Registration

• Exemptions
• A pick-up truck is exempt from the requirements
  if,
• it is being used for personal purposes without
  compensation and
• (b) it is not carrying, or towing a trailer that
  is carrying, commercial cargo or tools or
  equipment of a type normally used for commercial
  purposes.

Gross vehicle weight rating of 6,000 kilograms
or less
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Commercial Vehicle Operators Registration

• CHANGES
• Starting December 1, 2008
• All CVOR certificates will be assigned an expiry
  date
• Existing (non-expiring) certificates are being
• assigned an expiry date over a two-year
  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.

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Commercial Vehicle Operators Registration

• FEE Schedule, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1, 2008

• 250
• Application for and issuance of an original
  CVOR certificate
• Re-instate a CVOR certificate after it has been
  invalid
• for more that 12 months
• Re-instate a terminated CVOR certificate after
  its expiry date.
• 100
• A one-time fee to convert a non-expiring
  certificate to an expiring certificate, during
  the two-year transition period.
• 50
• Annual Renewal fee after the two-year
  conversion period.

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Permits and Registered Gross Weight
The registered gross weight (RGW) determines the
fee paid for truck licence plates. The truck's
RGW is based on, and must be at least equal to
the actual weight of the truck, or truck and
trailer and load. The RGW is indicated on the
right portion (plate portion) of a truck's
ownership, to the right of "REG. GROSS WT
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Determining Registered Gross Weights
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Determining Registered Gross Weights

• If the trailer weighs more than 2,800 kg (6,171
  lb.)
• Register the truck for at least the
• combined weight of the truck and trailer, weights
  A and B.
• If the trailer weighs 2,800 kg (6,171 lb.) or
  less
• Register the truck for at least the weight of the
  truck
• (weight B), which includes trailer tongue weight.
  
• Weight transmitted directly to the ground, by the
  trailer,
• is not included in the RGW.

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Determining Registered Gross Weights

• Example 1
• The trailer weighs
• more then 2800 kg
• Minimum registered
• Gross Weight is 6000 kg

3000 kg
3000 kg
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Determining Registered Gross Weights

• Example 2
• The trailer weighs
• less then 2800 kg
• Minimum Registered Gross Weight is 3000 kg

3000 kg
2000 kg
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Annual Inspection Certificates

• An annual safety inspection (PMCVI) is required
  if
• the truck's
• actual weight, RGW or GVWR exceeds
• 4,500 kilograms (9,920 lbs)

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Annual Inspection Certificates
An annual safety inspection is required if

• the actual weight of the truck,
• actual weight of the towed trailer or trailers
• exceeds 4,500 kilograms, or
• the GVWR of the truck,
• GVWR of the towed trailer or trailers
• exceeds 4,500 kilograms

Combined over 4500 kg both Truck and
Trailer require inspections
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Daily Vehicle Inspection

• Purpose
• The purpose of daily vehicle inspection is to
  ensure
• the early identification of vehicle problems and
  defects
• before the vehicle is operated on the highway.
• Inspections prevent the operation of a vehicle
  with
• conditions that are likely to cause or contribute
  
• to the severity of an accident

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Daily Vehicle Inspection

• Vehicles that require Inspections
• A truck that has a RGW or an actual weight over
  4,500 kg (9,920 lbs).
• A truck and trailer combination if a truck has a
  RGW over 4,500 kg or a truck's actual weight,
  with the trailer attached is over 4,500 kg.

CVOR Vehicles
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Daily Vehicle Inspection
Sample
DAILY VEHICLE INSPECTION REPORT Operator's name _________________________ Power unit Plate / jurisdiction __________________ / _____ Odometer reading _________________ Trailer Plate / jurisdiction ____________ / _____ Inspection date / time ___________ / ________ Inspection location ____________________________ Printed name of inspection person _____________________________ ? power unit ? trailer no major or minor defects found during initial inspection ? power unit ? trailer major and minor defects found during the initial inspection or while en route ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Signature - I inspected vehicles in accordance with the applicable Regulation ______________________ Signature of each driver who did not conduct the initial inspection Power unit __________________________ Trailer _________________________________________
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Daily Vehicle Inspection

• Pre-trip report must include
• Licence plate jurisdiction
• Operators name
• Date time of inspection
• Location where inspection took place (city, town,
  village)
• Printed name of inspector
• Odometer reading if applicable
• Statement as to whether major or minor defects
  found
• Statement by inspector that vehicle was inspected
  in accordance with ONT REG 199/07

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Daily Vehicle Inspection

• Schedule 1 must be included
• Operators responsibility to supply to driver
• List Major and Minor Defects

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Cargo Securement

• Light Vehicles

Light Vehicle means An automobile, truck or
van that weighs 4,500 kilograms or less shall be
secured as general provisions in Part 1 NSC 10
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Cargo Securement

• Requirements for a light Vehicle
• A light vehicle shall be
• restrained at both the front and rear from moving
  sideways, forward, rearward and vertically using
  a minimum of 2 tiedowns.

2 tiedowns
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Cargo Securement

• Heavy Vehicles

A vehicle that weighs more than 4,500 kilograms,
OR Equipment or machinery that operates on
wheels or tracks and weighs more than 4,500
kilograms
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Cargo Securement

• Requirements for a Heavy Vehicle

A heavy vehicle with crawler tracks or wheels
shall be restrained against moving sideways,
forward, rearward and vertically by at least 4
tiedowns, each with a working load limit of at
least 2,268 kilograms, and, Each attached, as
close as practical, at the front and rear of the
vehicle or to mounting points on the vehicle that
are specifically designed for that
purpose, Accessory equipment on a heavy vehicle,
including a hydraulic shovel, shall be
completely lowered and secured to the vehicle.
National Safety Code, Standard 10 For more
information, visit www.ccmta.ca
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Cargo Securement

• Welded Steel Chain Working Load Limit

On and after January 1, 2010, a person shall not
use a tiedown or a component of a tiedown to
secure cargo to a vehicle unless it is marked by
the manufacturer with respect to its working load
limit.
National Safety Code, Standard 10 For more
information, visit www.ccmta.ca
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Cargo Securement

• Trailers Secondary Means of Attachment

• A full trailer shall be coupled to the frame or
  an extension of the frame of a truck tractor or
  trailer with a safety connecting device that will
  prevent the full trailer from breaking loose in
  the event the tow bar fails or becomes
  disconnected.
• Safety Chain Requirements
• Minimum slack to provide articulation
• EACH CHAIN must have the ultimate breaking
  strength equal to the trailer or trailers being
  towed
• Connected to prevent the tow bar from dropping to
  the ground
• Equipped with hooks that will not become
  disconnected

National Safety Code, Standard 10 For more
information, visit www.ccmta.ca
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Cargo Securement

• Breakaway Device

A full trailer must be equipped with a Breakaway
Device, so that if the tow bar somehow becomes
dislodged the trailer can still come to a stop
National Safety Code, Standard 10 For more
information, visit www.ccmta.ca
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Cargo Securement

• General Cargo Securement

Gas cans, rakes, shovels, tools etc.
HTA, Section 111 (2) - No person shall operate or
permit to be operated upon a highway a motor
vehicle that carries a load or draws a vehicle
that carries a load unless the load is loaded,
bound, secured, contained or covered so that no
portion of the load may become dislodged or fall,
leak, spill or blow from the vehicle.
Cargo means all articles or material carried by a
vehicle, including those used in the operation of
the vehicle
National Safety Code, Standard 10 For more
information, visit www.ccmta.ca
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New Legislation

• Mandatory Truck Speed Limiters
• Starting January 1, 2009,
• most large trucks driven in Ontario will be
  required to use electronic speed limiters that
  cap their speed at a maximum of 105 kilometres
  per hour

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New Legislation

• Which vehicles
• are required to have speed limiters?
• All commercial vehicles 1995 and newer, with a
  manufactures weight rating of 11794 kg and more

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• Questions?