BRAMPTON, ON — A Brampton-based trucking company has been ordered off Ontario roads after a provincial tribunal upheld the cancellation of its commercial operating authority, citing a worsening record of serious safety violations that continued even after one of the company’s trucks was involved in a fatal multi-vehicle collision.
Ontario’s Licence Appeal Tribunal upheld a decision by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to cancel the Commercial Vehicle Operator’s Registration (CVOR) of LD Trans Line Ltd., effectively removing the carrier’s legal authority to operate commercial vehicles. The decision also calls for the immediate seizure of the company’s commercial licence plates and permits.
In a ruling released August 6, adjudicator Michael Beauchesne concluded that the Brampton carrier’s compliance record had deteriorated to the point that it represented an ongoing public-safety concern. The ruling described the company’s record as evidence of systemic problems and a “concerning level of apathy towards safety.”
The figures presented before the tribunal painted a troubling picture. By April 2026, LD Trans Line’s overall CVOR violation rate had climbed to 103.27 per cent, compared with 60.86 per cent in July 2025.
Under Ontario’s commercial trucking regulatory system, violation rates can rise above 100 per cent because safety points accumulate according to the seriousness and frequency of convictions in relation to the size of a carrier’s fleet.
The tribunal put the company’s record into perspective by noting that 97.33 per cent of Ontario’s 61,129 registered commercial carriers maintained violation rates below 35 per cent.
LD Trans Line’s out-of-service rate had also reached 58.33 per cent by April 2026. That meant more than half of the company’s vehicles or drivers inspected during roadside checks were ordered out of service because of issues such as mechanical defects or logbook violations.
Central to the tribunal proceedings was a devastating January 15, 2025 collision involving multiple vehicles in which one person was killed and 16 people were involved.
Evidence presented during the hearing showed that the driver involved in the fatal collision had falsified logbook entries over four consecutive days leading up to the crash. According to the evidence, the driver travelled hundreds of kilometres while electronic records indicated that he was off duty.
At approximately 5:58 a.m. on the morning of the collision, the driver was operating the vehicle even though his electronic log showed him as being off duty. The tribunal was also told that the crash occurred approximately 625 kilometres from the location where the driver had recorded that he had stopped and gone off duty the previous evening.
Although the official police report did not identify driver fatigue as a contributing factor in the collision, Beauchesne concluded that the logbook evidence demonstrated the driver had not received the legally required rest periods before operating the vehicle.
The fatal crash might have been expected to trigger sweeping changes in the company’s safety practices. However, according to evidence before the tribunal, hours-of-service violations involving other company drivers continued afterward, including following the introduction of a safety action plan in November 2025.
LD Trans Line opposed the cancellation of its operating authority and told the tribunal it had taken significant corrective measures. The company said it reduced its active fleet from eight trucks to three, installed onboard cameras, changed its electronic logging provider and introduced mandatory driver training.
The tribunal, however, found that the measures had not produced measurable improvement. Instead, both the company’s violation rate and out-of-service rate continued to deteriorate.
The carrier asked to be allowed to continue operating under tighter supervision or restrictions on the size of its fleet rather than losing its operating authority altogether. That proposal was rejected.
Beauchesne was particularly critical of the company’s response following the January 2025 fatal collision, indicating that such a serious incident should have prompted immediate and substantial changes to its operations.
“It is enough for me to weigh that even the loss of life did not spur the appellant to any serious remedial action,” Beauchesne wrote in the decision.
The adjudicator also concluded that increased supervision would not adequately address what the tribunal viewed as deeply rooted compliance problems, adding: “There just does not seem to be an authentic desire to get better.”
With public safety at the centre of the decision, the tribunal upheld the full cancellation of LD Trans Line’s CVOR and ordered the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to proceed with the revocation and seizure of the company’s commercial plates and permits.
The ruling sends a strong message to Ontario’s commercial transportation industry that repeated safety violations, particularly those involving driver hours, vehicle condition and regulatory compliance, can ultimately result in the loss of a carrier’s ability to operate.
LD Trans Line Ltd. could not be reached for comment before the original report was published.