Ontario drivers licence and CVOR requirements

TimnJo wrote:
I don't want to get in a flame war here JaxDad but you're confusing Gross Vehicle Weight Rating and Gross Combined Vehicle Weight Rating.
That half ton in your example is well below the 6,000 Kg GVWR, even though it's Combined weight may be above, the legislation is clear about that distinction, so no annual inspection, nor yellow sticker, is required.

The wording in the actual legislation is contradictory in the letter of the law - several places RVs are given exemptions from any Commercial requirements, so I say the spirit of the law is to give the average RV owner a break from the arduous inspection and logging requirements of a commercial operator.
Getting anyone from MTO to actually address this though I would think would be tough.

Tim

No problem Tim, were discussing not flaming, your reply was polite and courteous.

I think you also are confusing two totally separate requirements / issues.

1) Commercial vehicles with a GVWR of 4,500 kg, or under that, but hooked to a trailer, but NOT an RV, that puts them over 4,500 Combined GVWR require an Annual Safety Inspection, aka ‘yellow sticker’. This has NOTHING to do with a CVOR.

2) A CVOR is not required by commercial vehicles used strictly for personal use which has a factory box and is under 6,000 kg GVWR. A CVOR is kind of like a second parallel system of demerit points, strictly for commercial vehicles, fleet owners and drivers.

There are some weird exemptions, as mentioned above, it’s easy to relicense a Class 8 truck (tractor trailer) as a “motorhome” at which it becomes a “passenger vehicle” with no registered weight required and thus exempt from the need for an Annual Safety Inspection. We have a Freightliner which is licensed that way, it does not require a sticker, but our F150 does. Go figure.

As mentioned above, the big problem is that very few people understand that their pickup is a “commercial vehicle” despite being strictly ‘personal use’.