BC’s dashcam mandate is now law. Is your fleet ready?
What Bill M217 requires, answered
BC is the first province in Canada to mandate commercial dashcams. The short version, plus the questions fleets ask most.
Who it covers
Any commercial vehicle over 11,793 kg on a BC highway, regardless of where it’s registered. Out-of-province and US carriers running BC routes are included.
What’s required
Not required
Driver-facing or in-cab cameras. M217 is outward-facing only.
When
Six months after Royal Assent. Likely late 2026 or early 2027.
Install the camera. Get the copilot. Stay compliant.
A compliant camera watches the road and stays quiet. This one rides along.
It sees what’s building.
Eyes closing. Following distance shrinking. A collision forming three seconds ahead.
It speaks up.
Seconds later, in coaching words your fleet wrote, not a beep drivers tune out.
It remembers.
Every mile, recorded and retrievable. Someone else’s story shows up; yours has video.
Recording footage is compliance. Keeping it is protection.
The proposed floor is 72 hours of footage: enough for a roadside check, not for the claim that surfaces two weeks later. ZenCAM records to a 512GB SD card and pushes the full day’s footage to the cloud over yard Wi-Fi, so your evidence is never stranded in a parked truck.
One install. Three ways it pays you back.
Every fleet on BC highways is about to make the same purchase. The same install can do more:
Six months sounds like a long time. Fleet-wide installs say otherwise.
The clock starts at Royal Assent, and every fleet in BC starts shopping the same day.
Which vehicles qualify, which ones don’t.
Hardware that clears the proposed spec, before the rush.
By yard and route, without pulling trucks from revenue.
Drivers know what’s recording and why; policy updated.
Every camera installed, recording and ready for the mandate.
Get ahead of the M217 deadline.
Bring us your vehicle list. We’ll map it against M217, show you the gaps, and lay out a rollout that beats the deadline.