MTO inspection and charge quotas

[Michael Ludwig]

You guys gotta read this ...

http://www.todaystrucking.com/ontario-mandates-20-inspection-failure-rate

 

[Maggs]

That is believable. And Im not shocked at all.

 

[Rob]

The MTO all about safety ................oh ya and money or is that their first priority safety may be the by product. Is it any wonder why people drive around the scales

 

[ralphthetrucker]

Is it any wonder why people drive around the scales

Rob, it's the "agricultural" or "scenic" route, trucks never go around scales. Well, maybe some might be going around the Vineland scale after the "goalie puller" managed to keep his job.

 

[bubba-one]

Good to see our tax dollars hard at work, I would seem that they could cut the number of inspectors by 20% to equalize things, with possibly true inspection results. What a goverment won't do for job creation.

 

[buzzy]

Good to see our tax dollars hard at work, I would seem that they could cut the number of inspectors by 20% to equalize things, with possibly true inspection results. What a goverment won't do for job creation.

The other thing going on is the numbers inflation. Windsor and Sarnia scales do a "triage thing". Preliminary inspections can tie guys up in line from 10-30 minutes on walk around CVIRs. If they don't find anything wrong, the truck is cut loose. But there isn't any paperwork generated.

If they find a problem, off to secondary goes the truck and driver and a paper trail starts.
The rub is, they might do 30 preliminaries with no trails created, then find one with a problem. All of a sudden the paperwork says they have an inspection rate of 100% unsafe vehicles.

Any truck on tight delivery windows that gets stuck in these preliminary triage lanes is leaving with no record (proof) of an unavoidable delay.

20-30 minutes delay at Windsor or Sarnia at 2pm could make the difference of on-time delivery in Oshawa or a 3 hour traffic jam sitting in Toronto traffic, missed delivery windows and charge backs to the carrier.