Commercial Vehicle Drivers Hours of Service Regulations

2 (1) These Regulations apply to all commercial vehicles other than the following:

• (a) a two or three-axle commercial vehicle being used for

  • (i) transporting the primary products of a farm, forest, sea or lake, if the driver or the motor carrier is the producer of the products, or

  • (ii) a return trip after transporting the primary products of a farm, forest, sea or lake, if the vehicle is empty or is transporting products used in the principal operation of a farm, forest, sea or lake;

• (b) an emergency vehicle;

• (c) a vehicle engaged in providing relief in the case of a public welfare emergency, as that expression is defined in section 5 of the Emergencies Act; and

• (d) [Repealed, SOR/2009-157, s. 1]

• (e) a commercial vehicle when driven for personal use, if

  • (i) the vehicle has been unloaded,

  • (ii) any trailers have been unhitched,

  • (iii) the distance travelled does not exceed 75 km in a day,

  • (iv) the driver has recorded in the logbook the odometer reading at the beginning and end of the personal use, and

  • (v) the driver is not the subject of an out-of-service declaration under section 91.

(2) In this section, the expression “commercial vehicle when driven for personal use” excludes use, by the driver, of the vehicle in the course of business as a motor carrier.