Ontario License Plate - Still hard to get!!!!
Just tried to put plates on our 3500 truck and DH was told he needed a CVOR. I called the office in our little town - because they would answer the phone and gave details about the exemption. Told DH ...
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Ontario, and a few other Provinces, were forced (shamed?) into doing something to enforce the rules.
You can't pull a trailer over 4,600 KG unless you have a Class A licence. Ok. But if you showed up for a road test with an F550 pulling a tandem dual gooseneck (we have 3 in our fleet, legal and licenced for 30,000 # on the trailer and 50,000# gross) they'd refuse to do the road test with you because you weren't in a tractor / trailer but they'd be licensing you to drive one.
Ditto someone with a dually and big 5'er, come back with a 'real' truck & trailer or no Class A licence.
Of course the issue gets magnified since the rules apply to the entire province. Now a retiree in say Kapuskasing wants to get a big 5'er to escape winter. He has to go to a truck driving training school many hours from home and spend thousands of dollars getting licenced to drive something he'll never drive again.
Under reciprocity rules covered by US / Canada agreements if you're legal at home, you're legal everywhere. The problem though is that not all jurisdictions were as willing to turn a blind eye to people driving things they weren't licenced for.
Imagine being pulled over in Georgia and having your 5'er impounded because you weren't legal to drive it! Drive your pickup home bobtail, get a class A licence then drive back to Georgia to bail out your trailer. Doesn't sound like a fun vacation does it?
It's not an 'exemption' BTW for senior drivers, they just pushed back the age at which you go from taking road & written re tests every 5 years to having to do so to every year.
You can't pull a trailer over 4,600 KG unless you have a Class A licence. Ok. But if you showed up for a road test with an F550 pulling a tandem dual gooseneck (we have 3 in our fleet, legal and licenced for 30,000 # on the trailer and 50,000# gross) they'd refuse to do the road test with you because you weren't in a tractor / trailer but they'd be licensing you to drive one.
Ditto someone with a dually and big 5'er, come back with a 'real' truck & trailer or no Class A licence.
Of course the issue gets magnified since the rules apply to the entire province. Now a retiree in say Kapuskasing wants to get a big 5'er to escape winter. He has to go to a truck driving training school many hours from home and spend thousands of dollars getting licenced to drive something he'll never drive again.
Under reciprocity rules covered by US / Canada agreements if you're legal at home, you're legal everywhere. The problem though is that not all jurisdictions were as willing to turn a blind eye to people driving things they weren't licenced for.
Imagine being pulled over in Georgia and having your 5'er impounded because you weren't legal to drive it! Drive your pickup home bobtail, get a class A licence then drive back to Georgia to bail out your trailer. Doesn't sound like a fun vacation does it?
It's not an 'exemption' BTW for senior drivers, they just pushed back the age at which you go from taking road & written re tests every 5 years to having to do so to every year.
