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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JaxDad wrote:
Ontario, and a few other Provinces, were forced (shamed?) into doing something to enforce the rules.
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?
JaxDad, with all due respects to our friends in the US, I'll bet if I was pulled over in some places an officer would look at our plate and assume that it was issued in the city of the same name in California! In short, other juristicians have no idea what our licenses allow us to haul, AND if that officer had to call and find out what our Ontario licensing regulations covered (and got some of the same wrong answers as we have gotten from Service Ontario)he/she would be lost.
Ask an OPP officer about the issue (I have), you will get a similar answer.
