Ontario drivers licence and CVOR requirements
I was having a discussion with a truck driver friend who insisted that my new truck, a 2018 Silverado 3500 Double Cab dually with the diesel motor and 13,025 lbs. (5,908-kg) GVWR, would require me to ...
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shum02 wrote:JaxDad wrote:
Wow, a *bunch* of incorrect info here!
It does NOT exempt you from needing an Annual Safety Inspection. That is required when your truck, trailer, or both combined, have a GVWR or actual weight exceeding 4,500kg or 9,900 pounds. A LOT of folks don’t understand this until it’s too late. For example, a typical 1/2 ton with a 7,200 GVWR pulling a single axle box trailer with a 3,500 pound GVWR means you’re at 10,700 combined GVWR and need an annual Safety for BOTH.
If the MTO/OPP pulled over ever 1/2 ton truck on a long weekend pulling a RV and weighed them they'd never ever ever have time to do commercial and the courts would be plugged.
Have mine registered for 4k kgs. That's more than I need when I'm sitting in it with a full tank of fuel.
If you're not pulling ANY kind of commercial, ONLY your RV, use you're truck only as a passenger vehicle and you're under 11K kg's GCVWR you do not need a yellow sticker.
I’m not quite sure where you got those ideas, but they’re wrong. The whole point of those safety blitzes are education and that is certainly what they do.
The ‘commercial’ idea is just plain wrong too, your truck IS a commercial vehicle, even if your using it purely for ‘passenger’ use.
The requirement for a yellow safety inspection sticker is not required IF, and ONLY, if the truck has a GVWR on the truck is under 4,500kg. The RV exemption only covers the RV itself, so if the truck is under 4,500kg the RV does not bump it over that limit, but if the truck is over 4,500kg GVWR by itself it still needs a safety inspection.
