Commercial Vehicle Operator's Registration (CVOR)
and Changes to the Facility Audit Program

What's New

Renewal of your CVOR Certificate

Starting December 1, 2008 all CVOR certificates will be assigned an expiry date. For Issuance of ORIGINAL CVOR Certificates - $250.00

Starting December 1, 2008 all CVOR certificates will be assigned an expiry date. Existing (non-expiring) certificates are being assigned an expiry date over a two-year transition period. New applicants for CVOR certificates will be assigned an expiry date at time of issuance.

Renewal will be required annually after the transition period. Carriers converted in the first year of the transition period will receive an expiry date of two years. Carriers converted in year two will have a one year expiry assigned. After transition, annual renewal will be required for all operators except those operators with carrier safety ratings of "satisfactory" or "excellent". These operators will only be required to renew their certificate every two years.

Operators will be sent a notice of expiry 60 days prior to expiry (90 days during the transition period). A carrier that does not renew prior to the expiry date is liable to a fine and possibly to imprisonment, under section 21(2) of the Highway Traffic Act, if one or more of its commercial motor vehicles is found operating on an Ontario highway. In addition, subsection 20(2) authorizes a police officer to detain the vehicle and seize the permits and number plates of the vehicle until it can be moved in compliance with the Act.

FEE SCHEDULE, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1, 2008

$250

1. Application for and issuance of an original CVOR certificate
2. Re-instate a CVOR certificate after it has been invalid for more that 12 months
3. Re-instate a terminated CVOR certificate after its expiry date.

$100

A one-time fee to convert a non-expiring certificate to an expiring certificate, during the two-year transition period.

$50

Annual Renewal fee after the two-year conversion period.

• CVOR Application Forms and Guides
• For further information and to obtain a full copy of Ontario's Commercial Vehicle Operator's Registration (CVOR) and Carrier Safety Rating Public Guideline contact the MTO Carrier Sanctions and Investigation Office.

Facility Audit Program

On April 1 2009, MTO introduced a revision to the Facility Audit Program. The program is still based on the same requirements in the Highway Traffic Act and the National Safety Code for commercial vehicle operators to maintain all driver and vehicle records within a prescribed time period and make them available to a Facility Auditor when requested.

The goal of the program's revision is to harmonize Ontario's facility audit with Federal inter-jurisdictional requirements and to make it a better and fairer evaluation of industry safety management practices.

What's Changed:

The old facility audit was a "performance based" assessment of the on-road activity of an Operator.

The modernized facility audit is a "risk based" assessment of the elements known to cause or contribute to commercial motor vehicle (CMV) collisions. To reduce the likelihood of commercial motor vehicle collisions, the modernized facility audit examines the operators Safety Management Controls that are in place to ensure drivers are:

1. Qualified to drive the operator's equipment
2. Conduct the proper inspections of the operator's equipment and report deficiencies whenever they occur
3. Are compliant with the driving limitations and rest requirements of the Hours of Service regulation

• These 3 areas (or Profiles) are evaluated in the modernized Facility Audit. The total scores of these three profiles contribute to a carrier's safety rating.
• Each profile represents the percentage of overall compliance that the carrier has achieved.
• Each profile consists of sub-sections weighted according to the level of risk to road safety.

More details on the scoring and documents that are required to be maintained can be requested by calling MTO's Facility Audit Administrator: 905-704-2506.