Eleven hours of driving on one side of the border, thirteen on the other; ten hours of total daily off-duty time in Canada, only part of which has to be taken in one block. Treating the Canadian regime as a variant of the American one produces checks that are wrong in both directions. This application adds the rules that only exist in Canada, which no setting in the North American base can reproduce.
Who the application is for
For road hauliers based in Canada, subject to the Canadian federal hours-of-service regulation, who already use the North American trucking application for their quarterly fuel tax return.
What the application does
- Checks the elapsed time between two eight-hour consecutive rests — a measurement unique to Canada, which does not start from going on duty as in the United States.
- Checks total daily off-duty time, ten hours of which the consecutive block is only part — a notion with no American equivalent.
- Separately checks the two hours of rest that must be taken outside the consecutive block.
- Checks the four measured conditions for deferring daily rest to the next day, across two days at once.
- Checks that this deferral is properly declared in writing on the driver's log — the only rule in the trade that requires a written statement rather than a duration.
- Looks, across a fourteen-day window, for the longest continuous rest block and checks that it reaches twenty-four consecutive hours.
- Flags, line by line on the quarterly return, any rate published in a different unit from your base jurisdiction's own, without ever converting silently.
Day to day
- Install this application on top of the free Canadian edition and the North American trucking application: nothing already entered is asked for again.
- Each day, deal with findings from the six Canadian rules: mark them as dealt with, or dismiss them by writing the real reason — a ferry crossing, split rest, a special permit.
- When consolidating a return from a Canadian base jurisdiction, first read the panel listing lines whose rate is published in a different unit.
- Sort out the rates or volumes concerned yourself before filing, rather than leaving the mismatch unresolved.
- Adjust the hours-of-service regime if a figure changes: a field left at zero disables its rule, which is the expected case north of the sixtieth parallel.
What the application does not do
- It does not call any outside service by itself: fuel tax rates come from the North American application, through the service, the import or manual entry.
- It does not file any return and is not an electronic logging device for hours of service.
- It does not cover the roadside trip inspection rules specific to Canada, adopted province by province, for lack of an available text to date.
- Rules differ by province or territory and do change: the application does not replace the advice of a Canadian transport compliance specialist.
Free and full editions
The free edition already carries the two Canadian federal regimes — south and north of the sixtieth parallel — with their articles, as well as the four unit conversion factors used for the fuel tax return. The full edition installs on top and adds the actual checking of the six Canadian rules and the line-by-line flagging of unit mismatches on the return.
Getting started
First install the free Canadian edition and the North American trucking application, check the two federal regimes provided, then settle the case of drivers operating north of the sixtieth parallel, where three of the rules do not apply.
Going further
To find out whether this application suits your business and how to activate it, compare the plans or write to us.