The Ontario Truck Safety Coalition is pleased to announce that Ontario’s Minister of Transportation is going to be meeting with our members and safety stakeholders in the coming days to discuss the solutions outlined to improve and address truck safety in the province of Ontario.
The Coalition will provide a public update on the Minster’s response to our requests and next steps.
The coalition is seeking the following:
- 24/7 enforcement scale operations across Ontario, with regular presence of federal and provincial enforcement agencies with oversight over misclassification, WSIB abuse, tax fraud, human trafficking, and drug smuggling;
- Eliminate the satisfactory/unaudited, which creating a massive hiding place for unsafe carriers engaged in illegal activity. All carriers in the province, must undergo an audit on a regular basis;
- Federally, ensure labour and tax rules and new measures introduced in the federal budget are prioritized and strongly enforced;
- Improve commercial truck training and licensing and increase oversight of those to disregard the standards;
- Address challenges with the issuance of Safety Fitness Certificates for commercial trucking;
- Oversight of temporary placement agencies;
- Crack-down on abuse and exploitation of foreign students, temporary foreign workers and permanent residents in the trucking industry;
- Consider improvements to the commercial insurance regime in Ontario.