If yous use your 12- or fifteen-rider van strictly for personal use, it may be exempted from the requirements that apply to commercial vehicles. Contact your province/territory to determine requirements for personal use.

Commercial Apply:
Your 12- or 15-rider van may exist divers every bit a commercial bus under the National Safety Lawmaking for Motor Carriers, which is a series of guidelines that cover all aspects of commercial driver, vehicle and motor carrier safety. Individual provinces and territories are free to adopt or suit these guidelines into constabulary. As such, 12- and 15-passenger vans could be subject to a wide range of federal, provincial and territorial acts and regulations that govern commercial transport.

According to these requirements, drivers may need a commercial double-decker driver'south licence and run into higher medical fitness standards in lodge to bulldoze these vans. While driving the vans, the drivers may be subject area to hours of service work limitations.

The vans should be maintained in accordance with specific instructions established by the manufacturer. Twice a year, the vans may be subject to thorough inspections by specially trained mechanics to meet Provincial and Territorial requirements. Drivers may also have to audit the van according to specific criteria at least one time each day that the van is driven. The vans may as well be subject area to roadside inspections by provincial and territorial commercial vehicle inspectors.

Motor carriers must obtain a prophylactic fitness certificate, which permits the operation of the vans on public highways. The certificate acknowledges that the motor carrier maintains an ongoing safe rating of its fleet operations, which is based on their safety performance with respect to collisions, convictions and results of commercial driver and vehicle inspections. The motor carrier may, subject to its safety tape, likewise have to undergo a facility inspect, which is a site visit by inspectors in order to verify the rubber programs, practices and records that are maintained by the motor carrier.

  • Federal and Provincial/Territorial Government Responsibilities
  • Driver and Vehicle Requirements
  • School Transportation
  • Condom Investigations
  • Seat Belts and Child Restraints
  • Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
  • Tires
  • Loading a Large Passenger Van
  • Driving a Large Rider Van
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