Full ELD enforcement was pushed back to January 2023

In March 2022, the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) announced that full enforcement of the federal electronic logging device (ELD) mandate would be delayed to Jan. 1, 2023. Full enforcement had been scheduled to begin on June 12, 2022.

The CCMTA, whose members include regulators in every province and territory, said the extension would give carriers enough time to buy and install devices. The mandate itself took effect in June 2021, but enforcement had already been put off by a year, largely because there were no certified devices at the time.

By March 2022, 22 devices from 15 vendors had been certified by one of the three recognized testing bodies.

The CTA objects

The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) said governments should have kept the June 2022 date. It noted that four provinces (British Columbia, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador) had not yet introduced rules requiring ELDs, and said this cast doubt on the January date. It called on those provinces to commit to enforcement, or for the other jurisdictions to go ahead without them.

"There should be no more moving the goalposts on dates and no more delays," said CTA president Stephen Laskowski.

The PMTC welcomes the delay

The Private Motor Truck Council of Canada (PMTC) supported the extension. President Mike Millian said carriers had not had enough time to choose and install a certified device before June. He added that the industry was still waiting for Transport Canada to name a system for sending ELD data securely to enforcement officers, and for enforcement protocols and training. Millian said he expected this to be the last delay.