Thermal-imaging drone aids Ontario truck inspection blitz
Ontario Provincial Police used drone technology equipped with thermal imaging to help identify commercial vehicles with potential brake defects during a Canada Day enforcement initiative that inspected 183 trucks.
The joint operation, conducted with the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, took place at commercial vehicle inspection stations on Highway 11 in Callander (Wasi North) and Highway 17 West in North Bay.
Police said the initiative focused on commercial vehicle compliance inspections and impaired driving enforcement.
During the operation, officers conducted 170 mandatory alcohol screening tests, with no impaired driving violations detected. Inspectors placed six commercial vehicles out of service because of safety-related defects.
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All this drama about safety is actually an extortion tactics to rip off drivers and make extra revenue for elite forces MTO included.The business giants feed these forces like their pets so all vehicles of those businesses are compliant.its the small businesses that these Inspector target and make the money to be shared among the pack. Canada , US has all the corruption that exists in third world countries but its a legalized way to do it.And elite pets are trained that way.