A commercial vehicle safety blitz in Greater Sudbury resulted in 42 charges being laid from April 3-5.
During the effort, Greater Sudbury Police Service’s Traffic Management Unit joined the OPP and Ministry of Transportation to check 87 commercial motor vehicles.
The check, a media release, was an “enforcement initiative to locate vehicles operating in poor condition; to ensure compliance with documentation; to ensure daily vehicle safety checks and to ensure driver sobriety.”
Charges which GSPS flagged in their media release include:
- Five vehicles found to be in unsafe condition and removed from the road
- Four suspended drivers charged
- Six distracted drivers charged for using a hand-held communication device
Although the charges make no mention of driver impairment, GSPS included a reminder in their media release that “drivers of commercial vehicles that you must not have any presence of alcohol and/or drugs in your system when driving a commercial vehicle.”
Commercial vehicle drivers classes A to F have a zero-tolerance sanction for drugs and alcohol impairment when behind the wheel of vehicles fitting these classes, those requiring a commercial vehicle operator’s registration, and road-building machines.
