Quebec delayed ELD enforcement to June 2023

In December 2022, Quebec said it would start enforcing the federal electronic logging device (ELD) mandate on June 1, 2023. That put it five months after the Jan. 1, 2023 date the CCMTA had set for full enforcement.

Marc Cadieux, president and CEO of the Association du camionnage du Québec (ACQ), reported the delay after he and some of the province's largest carriers met with Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault on Dec. 21, 2022. Cadieux said the minister told them she did not want another unexpected postponement, so the rules would be applied from June 1.

Why it was delayed

• Gino Desrosiers of the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) said the legislative process for the regulation was underway but had been delayed by the Oct. 3, 2022 provincial election.
• Guilbault's predecessor, François Bonnardel, had told the ACQ convention in April 2022 that enforcement would begin Jan. 1.
• More than 20 carriers, including some of the province's largest, had written to the minister asking for a Jan. 1 start. The Teamsters and insurer Northbridge made the same request.

Cadieux said the repeated delays sent the wrong message to carriers that had not yet bought ELDs, encouraging them to wait. A Quebec transport ministry adviser said that even with the delay, Quebec would be the sixth of 12 jurisdictions to also adopt a provincial ELD rule for carriers operating only within the province.