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Story summary
- Ontario government introduced a standardized entry-level training curriculum for commercial truck drivers.
- The curriculum requires more than 103 hours and includes fatigue, remote driving, human-trafficking, and air-brake training.
- Auditor-General Shelley Spence found colleges cut hours, omitted basics, leaving 54 of 216 uninspected.
- Ontario launched a college blitz, added 131 enforcement officers, and raised distracted-driving fines.
- The curriculum will take effect early 2027 for all Ontario truck-driver training providers.
