Trucks and trailers are restricted to maximum dimensions and weights when traveling Ontario highways. This training program looks at your operation and determines the maximum limits allowed by the Ontario Highway Traffic Act and Regulation 413-05. Safe, productive and infrastructure friendly, often referred to as SPIF, trucks and trailers is getting close to full implementation and “older” trucks and trailers that do not meet current regulations are being “downgraded”.

Course Highlights:

• Highway Traffic Act / Reg 413-05
• Interpretation
  • MGVWR (manufacturers gross vehicle weight rating)
  • RGVW (registered gross vehicle weight rating)
  • GVW (Gross vehicle weight)
  • Tire weight ratings
• Safe Productive infrastructure friendly (SPIF)
  • What it means to you
  • Grandfather exemptions to 2025
• Gross vehicle weights / axle group weights limits
  • Single /Dual / Tri / Quads
  • Highway Traffic Act Charts / Limits
  • Regulation Charts / Tables (how to access correct one)
• Drawing up a scale ticket showing your vehicles maximum weight allowed
  • Gross weight (vehicle or vehicle combination)
  • Axle maximums
• Open question and answer period

Recommended for: Managers, supervisors, and all CVOR drivers

Duration: 4 hours

Record of Training issued.