{"id":3329,"date":"2022-03-07T18:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/cta-expresses-concern-with-government-moving-goalposts-on-eld-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:43:30","slug":"cta-expresses-concern-with-government-moving-goalposts-on-eld-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/cta-expresses-concern-with-government-moving-goalposts-on-eld-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"CTA Expresses Concern with Government Moving Goalposts on ELD Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) is announcing a\u00a0delay<\/a>\u00a0in enforcement of the ELD mandate from June 2022 to January 2023.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is very disappointed by this announcement and has reasonable doubts that the new January date is certain, from a national perspective, based on the lack of legislative preparedness of four jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

To enforce the federal mandate,\u00a0each jurisdiction\u00a0needs to have its own law\u00a0on the books. Currently, four provinces are still without the required legislation\u00a0or\u00a0regulations in place\u00a0to successfully transition their industries to ELDs\u00a0\u2013 British Columbia, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.<\/p>\n

CTA believes that governments which are ready with their regulations and legislation should have maintained its position of escalating enforcement\u00a0starting in\u00a0June 2022. Waiting for all jurisdictions to be ready, whenever that may be, in the name of \u2018national unity\u2019\u00a0is not in\u00a0best interest of public safety or the trucking industry, which has already made the proper investments to comply with the ELD mandate.\u00a0The vast majority of federally regulated fleets already have ELD technology in their fleets and the three certification bodies approved by Transport Canada and the Standards Council of Canada have qualified multiple ELD offerings, totaling 22 devices from 15 individual ELD vendors.<\/p>\n

CTA is adamant Canadians have waited long enough for ELDs, which pave the way for improved highway safety and would also address concerns associated with hours-of-service violations linked to the tragic Humboldt Broncos bus collision, as noted in 2019 by the Saskatchewan Coroners Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cELDs improve safety, fleet\u00a0and driver\u00a0performance and are\u00a0a cost-effective alternative compared to\u00a0the current\u00a0paper logbook\u00a0regime, which is cumbersome, archaic and can be easily falsified,\u201d says CTA president Stephen Laskowski. \u201cThere\u2019s simply no reasons pertaining to operations, cost, or safety for\u00a0trucking\u00a0fleets\u00a0and drivers\u00a0not to be ready\u00a0for escalated enforcement by June 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the announced delay, those provinces that are not yet ready need to prioritize the ELD mandate within their legislative\/regulatory process and immediately commit to the industry and the public to begin hard enforcement by January 1, 2023, says CTA. If those four provinces cannot make this guarantee, then the other jurisdictions which are ready by that date must commit to proceeding regardless.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout one or both of these commitments, the validity of CCMTA\u2019s January 2023 is in question,\u201d says Laskowski.\u00a0It\u2019s time for our industry and those provinces ready to enforce the federal ELD mandate to adjust their sails. The regulation is one of the most important road safety measures in the history of the Canadian trucking industry and, by extension, for the motoring public we share our workplace with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere should be no more moving the goalposts on dates and no more delays.\u00a0The time to finally start this important safety regime is past due.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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