{"id":696723,"date":"2026-05-27T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696723\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:17:19","slug":"b-c-to-become-1st-in-canada-to-require-commercial-trucks-have-dashcams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696723\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. to become 1st in Canada to require commercial trucks have dashcams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>It will soon be mandatory for commercial trucks in B.C. to have dash cameras.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>B.C. Conservative MLA Ward Stamer introduced a bill after a string of deadly collisions on Highway 5, which goes through his riding of Kamloops-North Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>British Columbia is the first Canadian jurisdiction to require commercial dash cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Stamer says cameras will help keep drivers accountable and ensure there will be enough evidence in the event of a crash.<\/p>\n<p>The bill requires outward-facing dash cameras on commercial trucks travelling B.C. highways and will come into force six months after receiving royal assent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill started with families along Highway 5 who have buried loved ones after preventable crashes. It finishes with B.C. leading the country on commercial vehicle safety,\u201d said Stamer in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hold drivers accountable. And they make sure that when a crash happens, the evidence is there, not lost, not disputed, not buried in a year-long investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent\">\u201cDash cameras save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Dump truck accident sparks calls for awareness and change'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WEB_STILL_6P_NANAIMO_DUMP_TRUCK_C_OM01P1RM.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:14<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDump truck accident sparks calls for awareness and change\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Traffic<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dave Earle with the B.C. Trucking Association says the organization welcomes the bill and about 75 per cent of its members already use dashcams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we would like to see is this be a national requirement, so we don\u2019t create friction between jurisdictions where we have to run something in one and not in another,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been raised at the Council of First Ministers of Transportation table, and we\u2019ll see how that goes, but certainly, the bulk of our members are already running them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill covers only outward-facing cameras, not cameras inside the cab, addressing privacy concerns raised in committee.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size It will soon be mandatory for commercial trucks in B.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[254156,49,48,254157,254155,44,64,1890],"class_list":["post-696723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bc-trucks","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-commercial-trucking","tag-dashcams","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}