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12 industrial roads

What you’ll learn

After studying this chapter you’ll be able to:
❏ define an industrial road
❏ describe the requirements for inspecting your vehicle for industrial
road use
❏ list and describe the special brake requirements for industrial roads
❏ list and describe the special safety considerations for driving on an
industrial road

❏ explain the right-of-way rules on industrial roads
❏ describe how to obtain an industrial air brake endorsement.

Industrial logging truck
combinations are usually
much bigger than logging
trucks seen on public roads.

fast fact An industrial road is any road that exists for the transportation of natural
resources, machinery, materials or personnel. Industrial roads include all
Very few drivers require company bridges, wharves and log dumps. They don’t include:
an industrial air brake
endorsement. You need • public highways, streets or lanes
an industrial endorsement
only if you’ll be operating • forest service roads as defined in the Forest Act
unlicensed vehicles that are • development roads as defined in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act
equipped with air brakes and
are used to transport natural • privately owned roads used by farmers or residents for their own purposes
resources on industrial roads.
• roads used exclusively for the construction and maintenance of electric
You don’t need an industrial power lines, telephone lines or pipelines
air brake endorsement to
operate skidders, loaders, • roads and yards within manufacturing plants, industrial sites, storage yards,
graders or yarders on airports or construction sites
industrial roads.
• tote roads, cat roads and access roads.
Contact a driver licensing
office for details.

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