Alberta and Saskatchewan remain holdouts among Canadian provinces when it comes to adoption of the Canadian federal electronic logging device mandate for in-province-only carriers, noted Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada. Speaking as part of an online seminar Wednesday, Sept. 13, Millian stressed that by the beginning of next year the remainder of Canadian provinces and territories will have their own intra-provincial ELD mandates in place and ready to enforce.
"Nova Scotia is beginning Jan. 1," he said, also noting Newfoundland plans to begin enforcing its ELD mandate for in-province carriers Dec. 1, as shown in the chart, where effective dates on the righthand side are for the Provincial ELD mandates.
Prince Edward Island (PE)-only carriers are exempt from the ELD mandate, Millian noted, given they remain under the Canadian 160-kilometer short-haul logbook-exemption radius.
Keep in mind, though, Millian added, "even if they’re not enforcing for provincially-regulated carriers, they are enforcing for federally-regulated carriers," and that includes inspectors and officers in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Since the Canadian ELD mandate began being enforced Jan. 1 of this year, third-party-certified devices available to use there have multiplied in Canada's ELD registry. As noted in multiple prior reports, ELDs must be third-party certified under Canadian rules, unlike in the United States. That reality early on set back Canada's enforcement and implementation timelines. Since Overdrive's last update, when the Canadian approved-device registry featured 58 devices from companies, numbers have nearly doubled to "97 certified devices from 43 manufacturers," Millian said Wednesday. That's in spite of one third-party certification company currently exiting the business, he added.
That exit "will have an effect" down the line, he added, as all certified devices need to go through routine retesting processes, but it shouldn't "be that big of a deal."
