The Vancouver Police Commercial Vehicle Unit, along with other municipal police, RCMP, and the Province’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Enforcement (CVSE), continue to work together as part of ongoing efforts to improve road safety.
The VPD has a dedicated Commercial Vehicle Unit that conducts daily inspections of trucks and trailers travelling through the city to help reduce collisions and make our roads safer. Collaborative inspections with the CVSE and other police agencies occur regularly and throughout the Lower Mainland – today, police and CVSE inspectors were at multiple locations in Vancouver and will be out in force again tomorrow.
STATS
Day 1:
Total number of units* checked – 119
Units with no violations present – 7
Units with minor violations present – 80
Units that met out-of-service** criteria – 32
Day 2:
Total number of units checked – 95
Units with no violations present – 15
Units with minor violations present – 47
Units that met out-of-service criteria – 33
Combined to-date:
Total number of units checked – 214
Units with no violations present – 22
Units with minor violations present – 127
Units that met out-of-service criteria – 65
* A “unit” is a commercial vehicle or trailer (anything with a license plate)
** “Out-of-service criteria” are vehicles or trailers required to be removed from the road immediately due to significant defects
