PEVL Safety Rating: How to Protect Your Business

Every owner or operator of heavy vehicles (PEVL) registered with the Commission des transports du Québec (CTQ) receives a safety rating: satisfactory, conditional or unsatisfactory.

The PEVL record

The SAAQ monitors the conduct of each business: offences committed by drivers and by the business, collisions, and vehicles being put out of service. When a threshold for the size of the fleet is reached, the file may be forwarded to the CTQ.

The consequences

The CTQ may summon the business to a hearing and impose conditions, or even an unsatisfactory rating, which prohibits the operation of heavy vehicles. For a transport company, its livelihood is at stake.

How to protect yourself

Do not pay statements of offence automatically: paying is pleading guilty, and the offence is added to your record;
Have a lawyer review each statement of offence;
Put follow-up measures in place (training, maintenance, hours-of-service monitoring);
Prepare seriously if a CTQ hearing is scheduled.

Also read: Audition devant la CTQ – SAAQ and Politique d’évaluation des PEVL

Got a statement of offence? Don’t pay before talking to us

For a truck driver or a fleet owner, every statement of offence also counts on the business’s record. Our lawyers contest your statements of offence anywhere in Quebec and represent you before the Commission des transports du Québec. See our Option 3 – Commercial Vehicle (CVL – PEVL – CVOR).

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PEVL Safety Rating: How to Protect Your Business