Flaws in truck licencing system confirmed by Ontario Auditor General

A report from Ontario’s Auditor General confirms several shortcomings in large commercial truck licencing. 

It says the trucks represent only 3% of vehicles on the road yet accounted for 12% of vehicles involved in fatal collisions from 2019 to 2023. 

It also says that a quarter of private colleges training drivers were never inspected… and that some students got their entry level training certificates without completing mandatory training hours and elements. 

Bob McIntyre
Bob McIntyre
News Director at the cluster of Vista radio stations that has Country 93.1 Timmins and Moose FM in Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Hearst, as well as MyTimminsNow.com, MyCochraneNow.com and MyKapHearstNow.com . Proud to be born and raised in this area and glad to be home since 2018, after 18 years away.

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