The traffic safety focus for the month of June is Commercial Vehicle Safety.

Commercial vehicles play an important role in moving goods around the province and across its borders. These vehicles are larger and heavier than passenger vehicles, so other drivers and road users should exercise caution and patience when sharing the road with them. Commercial vehicles have large blind spots, take longer to stop than smaller vehicles, and require a wide turning radius. Make sure to give them plenty of room on the road.

Facts about commercial vehicles:

• In 2023, commercial made up 3.0 per cent of the total vehicles involved in casualty collisions, but 7.2 per cent of the vehicles in fatal collisions.
• In 2023, there were 24 people killed and 126 major injuries in collisions involving commercial vehicles. This represents a decrease in fatalities and major injuries from 2022.
• The most common driving errors on the part of the truck tractor driver in casualty collisions were running off the road and following too closely (2023).
• Truck-tractor drivers are more likely than other drivers in casualty collisions to be fatigued or asleep at the time of the collision (2019 -2023).
• In 2024, Sheriff Highway Patrol completed 9,760 commercial vehicle and/or driver inspections.