Fatal accident involving a heavy vehicle: Overview of administrative, penal and criminal implications
By Me Sarah Routhier and Me Pierre-Olivier Ménard Dumas

We can ignore invitation ... but not the Did you see me? prices!

The Canadian Transportation Agency (“CTA”) has recently developed various orientation guides to clarify the requirements of the new Accessible Transportation Regulation (RTAPH), the majority of which will come into force on June 25. 2020.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently published in the Federal Register 2020 the fees for commercial carriers required by law to participate in the United carrier registration ("UCR"). The UCR national registration system is now ready to process registrations.

This provincial competition praises people who, through their determination, creativity and values, help promote health and safety in Quebec. The success of a good idea does not lie in its magnitude, but rather in its effectiveness in eliminating the dangers!

27 500 $ amassés pour les élèves en milieu scolaire défavorisé – un record pour la Fondation des transporteurs par autobus     

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.