Having not just a personal truck in this category, an F-350 DRW 4x4, but a small fleet at work, we run into this ALL the time.
The bygone days of 'ignorance is bliss' is, well, bygone days. With the current profit sharing, ummm, I mean REVENUE sharing, arrangements the regional police forces in the GTA (Durham, York, Peel and Halton) have really stepped up 'commercial vehicle enforcement' lately.
Make no mistake, in Ontario there is no such thing as a 'personal' pickup, they are ALL commercial vehicles.
In my area, York Region, they have a unit that does nothing but set up inspection stations in random spots to pull over ANY commercial vehicle, which is ANY vehicle with black & white plates lots of tickets get written, lots of plates are removed, lots of tow truck drivers are happy.
Under reciprocity agreements you are legal anywhere in North America if you are legal at home. A family friend had to pay a tow truck to take his 5'er to a storage yard in Georgia while he drove back to Toronto because he wasn't legal and nobody ever checks that stuff, until someone did..........
