Legislation and Standards for Limos in Toronto

Legislation and Standards for Limos in Toronto

All drivers of limousines are expected to be safe, reliable drivers and their limos should be in tip top order. The best and most successful limo businesses typically go to great lengths to find and train and retain the best drivers they possibly can. Many firms either send their drivers on training courses, or employ drivers who have been through and passed the courses.

The limo training time ensures that standards of limousine drivers, and of course their vehicles, reach the highest levels, and through refresher courses from time to time, that they remain there.

A new law amendment states that from February 2010, all drivers (including taxi and limousine drivers) who are operating a vehicle in Toronto can be fined up to $500 for using a cell phone or other communication device that can distract him from driving safely. He is permitted to use hands free devices only. Just over from Canada, in Chicago, USA, Oprah Winfrey is waging a strong, and hopefully very successful campaign against using cell phones while driving.

As far as seatbelts go, passengers in a limo can be fined for not wearing them. The fines may be over $100 per person. The passengers bear the responsibility for the fine, not the limo driver. However the driver should inform the passengers of this, because, for some reason, people don't realise that the seat belt law applies to them in limos and taxis as well, and not just when they travel in private vehicles. The only road passenger vehicle where people are exempt from wearing seatbelts is a bus. Currently there are campaigns aimed to ensure that in children's buses at least, this law will come into being. Any vehicle can be involved in an accident at any unexpected time. It is in everyone's best interest to be sure they are safely strapped in. It has been proven statistically that seat belts have saved lives and prevented serious injury in many accidents. The limo driver is responsible to check that all children are buckled up in separate seats, not together with their caregivers. The driver is responsible for fines for children under sixteen who do not wear seat belts. Elderly people are expected to be assisted by the driver, if necessary. Although the law exempts the driver from taking responsibility for his adult passengers, he will be frowned upon and very soon get a bad name if he doesn't warn them.

At strange odds with this is the law covering taxicab and limo drivers. On one hand, the drivers are obliged to wear safety belts while driving paying passengers, while on the other hand they are not prohibited from adjusting or even removing part of their seat belts. At present this provides a loophole as they cannot be charged with the failure to wear a complete seat belt assembly' as the wording of the law puts it. Nevertheless it is in their best interest, too, to buckle up and be safe.

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