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Written By
Henk Van Pelt
Becca Enterprises
Licensed Paralegal

The Ministry of Transportation takes seriously the role they take in monitoring the quality of the product that their auditors provide, and so they should. The Ministry’s policy is to ensure that all facility auditors compile information, and conduct the audit in the same manner as set out in the Facility Audit Manual to ensure that all operators are treated equally and that no one is given an unfair advantage in the marketplace.

Follow up:

A poor audit and subsequent safety rating would be no less than devastating to the operator’s financial future and well being. A less than satisfactory rating could cause the insurance underwriters to find issue with the operator’s insurance rates, increase them and on occasion cancel their policy. However due to a large number of unaudited operators in the Province of Ontario, the audited companies are being some what treated unfairly. If a company failed an audit it is automatically rated conditional and there fore are subject to all of the negative elements of the market place and is then compared to an operator who has not yet had to be subject to the Ministry’s scrutiny. Although it is true that the Ministry targets operators with poor on highway performance, there are equally poor operators with few or no notations on their CVOR due to their low exposure to the enforcement facilities. It may be time for the Ministry to consider as they have in the past, to develop and enact legislation to allow them to bring in a third party system to audit unaudited operators and to truly provide a fair playing field, and to ensure that no company obtains an economic advantage over an other operator.

Written By
Henk Van Pelt
Becca Enterprises
Licensed Paralegal

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