Regulation

A 3-day North American inspection event that transpired between September 9th to 12th exposed over 12,000 violations overall.  Within this number, driver issues with Hours of Service and Brake [...]

The Ontario Trucking Association has been sending a plea to the industry to report carriers using the Driver Inc. employment scheme.  This program has been noted as misclassifying employees to [...]

British Columbia is implementing many changes for the trucking industry coming into 2021.  Some of those changes being a mandatory entry-level driver training program (MELT), ELDs and the shift [...]

The trucking and logistics sectors are a large portion of the federally regulated workplaces where Bill C-65 is applicable.  This is meant to strengthen the Canada Labour Code provisions around [...]

Transport Canada worked closely with the railway industry & unions to enhance and update the Duty/Rest Rules for Railway Operating.  Some of the updates include limits in the on-duty work [...]

The new U.S Hours of Service rules went into effect September 29th.  So far there doesn’t seem to be any major changes in violations in comparison to the month prior with the previous [...]

This Classics Article is an interesting historical piece outlining the evolution and responsibilities of the Interstate Commerce Commission.   …read more

The OTA (Ontario Trucking Association) has shown its support to reduce red tape and streamline regulations that would allow easier flow or movement of goods within the supply chain.   …read more

With the intention to reduce the risk of derailments, a new Ministerial Order issued under The Railway Safety Act is restricting operators train speeds based on cold temperatures as opposed to a [...]

Transport Canada announced that FP Innovations will be the first third-party company able to verify that the ELD (Electronic Logging Device) equipment carriers use meets the standards.  But some [...]