The new hours of work legislation enacted in January of 2007 makes it more important, now than ever, to ensure that operators provide proper training for their drivers by qualified individuals.
The new legislation brought in by this Provincial Government on the first of this year has some significant changes in that must be addressed. No longer do we have the 15 hour on duty rule or the 3 cycles that prior to this could be changed at the will of the driver. . Now we have a 14 hour on duty allowable, as well as, a 16 hour shift. The cycles being changed from 60 hours in 7 days to 70 hours in 7 days and the elimination of the 8 day cycle. The driver is now required to designate the cycle he chooses to comply with and note it on his daily log. The 8 hours off duty has been changed to 10 hours in a day. The log book exemption requirements have been amended as has the sleeper berth rules.
Ontario regulation 555/06 (Hours of Work) states in section 28(1) an operator shall monitor each driver’s compliance with this Regulation. Subsection (2) states if an operator determines the driver has failed to comply with the regulation the Operator must record the details of non-compliance and of the remedial action taken by the operator in response to it.