The Highway Traffic Act authorizes the province and municipalities to restrict truck weights during spring thaw to protect roads and highways:
Ontario Reduced Load (Spring Thaw) Restrictions
Posted Thursday February 17, 2022 in Operations/safety
Posted Thursday February 17, 2022 in Operations/safety
The Highway Traffic Act authorizes the province and municipalities to restrict truck weights during spring thaw to protect roads and highways:
Posted Tuesday February 15, 2022 in Infrastructure
Each year, Quebec reduces weight allowances during spring thaw to reduce highway damage. The province is divided into three zones with Zone 1 representing most of southern Quebec, and Zones 2 and 3 progressively further north.
Posted Friday April 23, 2021 in Infrastructure
MTO’s 2021 Ontario spring load restriction information is now available in real-time real time. Go to http://Ontario.ca/511 and click Truck and Bus Info.
Posted Thursday April 15, 2021 in Infrastructure, News Releases, Operations/safety
Rolling blockades on public highways are a threat to public safety and are not responsible or effective expressions of citizens’ or groups’ democratic right to protest.
Posted Tuesday May 07, 2019 in Infrastructure, Operations/safety
MTO has posted a series of proposals to the Regulatory Register to address technological advancements in vehicle equipment and components as well as further harmonizing Ontario’s weights and dimensions regime with neighbouring jurisdictions.