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Order a CVOR abstract →If you work in Ontario’s commercial transportation industry, you may be asked for a CVOR Driver Abstract. CVOR stands for Commercial Vehicle Operator’s Registration, and its driver abstract is different from the common 3-year personal driving record.
What does a CVOR Driver Abstract contain?
Ontario describes the CVOR Driver Abstract as a five-year record of collisions, safety-related offences, convictions and inspections relating to a driver. It only includes this event information from when the driver was operating in Ontario. The record also shows the driver’s licence status and medical due date.
Why might a commercial carrier request it?
Commercial carriers have responsibilities related to driver qualification and safety. Ontario’s Commercial Vehicle Operators’ Safety Manual identifies a CVOR Driver’s Abstract obtained within the preceding 12 months as a required document associated with Ministry facility audits for applicable driver files.
This makes the CVOR Driver Abstract particularly relevant to trucking and other commercial-driving employment and compliance processes.
Is it the same as a carrier CVOR abstract?
No. Ontario also offers CVOR Level 1 and Level 2 carrier abstracts. Level 1 summarizes a carrier’s record, while Level 2 provides more detailed carrier event information. A CVOR Driver Abstract relates to an individual driver’s commercial safety history.
How far back does it go?
The CVOR Driver Abstract covers five years of the applicable commercial-driving events described by Ontario. That differs from the common personal 3-year driver record.
What the five-year history covers
Ontario describes the CVOR driver abstract as a five-year summary of a commercial driver’s safety-related events: collisions, safety-related offences, convictions and inspections. It also shows the driver’s licence status and medical due date.
Two limits are worth knowing. It covers events while the driver was operating in Ontario, so it is not a full record of commercial driving across Canada or abroad. And it is not the same as Ontario’s standard 5-year driver record, which is a personal driving record with different contents.
Ordering the correct CVOR record
If your employer asks for a CVOR abstract, confirm whether it needs the CVOR Driver Abstract or a carrier Level 1 or Level 2 record. The names are similar, but the documents serve different purposes.
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