Quels bagages sont permis à bord?

En principe, tous les bagages peuvent être acceptés à bord d’un autobus scolaire ou autre. Mais tous, exception faite des bagages à main, doivent être arrimés correctement.  

For your information, when a driver's license is marked "W", it means that the driver cannot drive a heavy vehicle (class 1, 2, 3 or 4B) in the United States, since he does not meet to that country's standards for driver health. The targeted health problems are: diabetes treated with insulin, epilepsy, partial or total hearing loss.
 

Intermittent lights on school buses

Being in the heart of the 32nd “Did you see me? »From the Bus Carriers Federation, we take this opportunity to review in more detail the application of article 460 of the Highway Safety Code (“ CSR ”) concerning mandatory immobilization in the presence of a bus or school minibus whose intermittent red lights or the obligatory stop signal are on.

LANCEMENT DE LA 32E CAMPAGNE M’AS-TU VU ?

What is our obligation facing a yellow light?

By Me Félix-Antoine Blais, Me Pierre-Olivier Dumas, Me Sarah Routhier and Me Camille Couture.

One of your drivers arrives at an intersection and the traffic light turns yellow. A quick decision must be made. Should it stop or can it continue?

Les faits 

Sentence arbitrale rendue le 26 novembre 2019 par l’arbitre Me Richard Marcheterre pour un grief contestant un congédiement. L’Employé allègue que la faute de ne pas avoir avisé son contremaître de l’accident dont il était l’auteur, n’a pas la gravité que l’Employeur lui attribue. L’Employé reconnaît cependant que l’accident s’est bel et bien produit.

Transport Canada issues an amendment to the Règlement sur la sécurité des véhicules automobiles (bus seat belts and other amendments) to the effect that all medium and large coaches newly built as of September 1st, 2020 or later must be equipped seat belts in all seats.

Since July 2nd, new orientations regarding vocational rehabilitation and return to work are now in force. Thus, every employer must now demonstrate a real and reasonable effort to accommodate the reinstatement of the worker who suffered an employment injury.

Carriers, are you allowed to keep the safety patrol reports of your vehicles in digital format?

The answer is yes, but ...

Le Règlement sur les normes de sécurité des véhicules routiers (the "Regulations") states that the owner AND the operator must keep, for each heavy vehicle, a file containing, in particular, a copy of the documents relating to the safety patrol and the specific check applicable to a bus (section 202.1).

Les mécaniciens qui désirent effectuer de l'entretien préventif (PEP) pour des véhicules lourds 7 258 KG et plus doivent réussir un examen reconnu par la SAAQ et portant exclusivement sur l'entretien préventif.

Une formation de mise à niveau au Programme d’entretien préventif est maintenant disponible. Elle vise les entreprises et leurs mécaniciens ayant déjà une carte PEP.

It is within the framework of the Journées du Québec in Paris, supported by the Ministry of Immigration, Francization and Integration (MIFI) in collaboration with several partners, including Quebec International and Montreal International, that the Federation has participated for the first time in a mission dedicated to international recruitment.

For a 32nd year, the Federation will present its school bus safety campaign Did you see me? from February 3 to 14, 2020.

Discover our new image!

Please note that Federation offices will be closed from December 23^rd at noon until January 3, 2020 incusively.

Happy holidays!

La Loi sur l’Autorité des marchés publics, adoptée en décembre 2017, créait une instance neutre et indépendante nommée l’Autorité des marchés publics (AMP), chargée notamment de surveiller les appels d’offres publics et les contrats publics octroyés au Québec.