Police say we all share a responsibility when it comes to highway safety, but commercial drivers carry an even greater burden.
The comment comes after nearly 600 commercial vehicles were checked this week during a joint initiative between East Region OPP and the Ministry of Transportation.
From Monday to Thursday, officials say they were looking for mechanical defects, improper paperwork, impaired drivers and anything else which could potentially impact the safety of everyone on Ontario’s roads and highways.
During the operation, police say they conducted 69 mandatory alcohol screening tests on random drivers with no violations, took four commercial vehicles out of service and issued nine tickets for various infractions.
Officers say they also caught nine commercial vehicles using a secondary road to bypass the MTO inspection facility on Highway 401. In one of these incidents, a total of nine charges were laid against a company and the driver. That vehicle was taken out of service.
