CVOR lookup: check a carrier's CVOR rating

For freight brokers and 3PLs booking Ontario carriers. How to look up a carrier's CVOR record, what the safety ratings mean, and how to stop re-checking your roster one carrier at a time.

What a CVOR lookup tells you

Every truck or bus operator based in Ontario needs a Commercial Vehicle Operator's Registration (CVOR). The province keeps a safety record for each CVOR holder: collisions, convictions, inspections and audits, and from them a safety rating.

• Excellent and Satisfactory: the carrier meets Ontario's standards.
• Satisfactory-Unaudited: no audit yet, nothing against the record.
• Conditional: problems found; the carrier is being watched.
• Unsatisfactory: the carrier's operating privileges can be suspended or cancelled. Booking a load with one is a risk you carry.

How to check a CVOR rating

1. Get the carrier's CVOR number (nine digits) from its setup packet or rate confirmation.
2. Search it in Ontario's public carrier safety record search, or order a carrier abstract for the full history.
3. Check the carrier against the province's published list of carriers rated unsatisfactory or with a cancelled CVOR.
4. Write down the date you checked. A rating can change any week, so a check at onboarding goes stale.

The lookup is free, but it is one carrier at a time. With 50 or 200 carriers on your roster, nobody re-checks them all every week.

Cross-border and out-of-province carriers

Each province keeps its own registry: Quebec's NIR register (see Quebec NIR lookup), Alberta's safety fitness certificates, and FMCSA records for US carriers. Checking one carrier can mean three sites.