What happened
Ontario's Licence Appeal Tribunal has upheld an 11 March 2026 order cancelling the CVOR — the commercial vehicle operating certificate — of 13979563 Canada Inc., operating as Moose Trucking of Cambridge, Ontario, along with the plate portions of permits for its trucks and trailers. Vice-chairperson Avril A. Farlam found reasonable grounds to believe the carrier would not operate safely or in accordance with highway safety laws. An affiliated company, 2805239 Ontario Inc., was covered by the same cancellation order and did not appeal.
The safety record justified the outcome. After 31 months in operation, Moose Trucking's violation rate stood at 40.5% as of 5 December 2025 — above 35% ranks among the worst 1.6% of Ontario's 62,800 CVOR holders. It had 11 convictions, including a missing electronic logging device and speed limiter. Seven of nine inspections found defects and four put vehicles out of service, among them a loose air tank and a cracked wheel. An exhaust defect found in August 2024 was still unrepaired at an October re-inspection, with no significant improvement through to the August 2026 hearing.
The connection to Trans King (2489288 Ontario Inc.) sealed it. Trans King's own CVOR had been cancelled on 22 March 2024 after warning letters, a suspension and seizure order, continued operation while suspended, and concerns its vehicles were not properly insured. Gurpreet Singh Bela and Jaspreet Kaur became Moose Trucking directors on 18 March 2024 — four days before Trans King lost its authority. Drivers, a safety manager and vehicles then moved across, and some trailers pulled by Moose trucks remained registered to Trans King.
At a 5 February 2025 inspection a Moose driver produced a logbook showing he was driving for Trans King, and the same Cambridge address served as Bela's residence, Trans King's head office and its director's service address. Moose denied any association and claimed new training, maintenance contracts and driver terminations — but nobody represented it at the 21 August hearing, and minutes before it an unknown 'Shamshad' emailed claiming he had bought the company and its CVOR ten days earlier, offering no evidence. Farlam proceeded in the carrier's absence and upheld the cancellation.
What it cost
CVOR cancelled 11 March 2026, upheld on appeal 21 August 2026, with vehicle and trailer permit plates pulled — no operating authority left in Ontario
Why it happened
The carrier ran with a violation rate of 40.5% — worse than 98.4% of Ontario carriers — and 11 convictions in under three years on the road.
Defects found in one inspection went unfixed by the next, and the company could show no improvement even after the cancellation order.
Instead of cutting ties with the cancelled Trans King, its incoming directors arrived four days before that cancellation and absorbed its drivers, safety manager and vehicles.
The company skipped its own appeal hearing and let an unverified stranger claim to have bought the firm and its CVOR days earlier, submitting no evidence for any of its claims.
The lesson
A new CVOR is not a clean slate: regulators trace shared directors, addresses and rolling stock, and a successor carrier inherits the very record that killed its predecessor.
Aftermath
The tribunal confirmed the cancellation on 21 August 2026 and Truck News reported the decision on 6 October 2026; with the CVOR and plate portions of permits cancelled, Moose Trucking has no authority to operate commercially in Ontario. The affiliated 2805239 Ontario Inc. did not appeal its own cancellation.
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