A new report from Ontario’s auditor general identifies “serious” gaps in testing, training, and oversight in Ontario’s commercial truck driver training and licensing system, saying that this creates a “safety risk for all drivers on Ontario’s roads.”
The report from Ontario Auditor General Shelley Spence found multiple cases of private truck-driving schools failing to offer the full mandatory Entry Level Training (ELT) to would-be drivers, telling students to sign off on training hours they hadn’t done, along with “falsified” student records.
The report also points to provincial DriveTest centres giving inconsistent road tests and various lapses in oversight of the province’s commercial trucking industry….