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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Commutator wrote:
The cynic in me thinks this is about revenue too. I didn't include that in my post simply because a friend of mine was stopped by police in Peterborough recently for having no sticker on his dually. However he was given several days to complete the inspection and avoid the fine. When he returned with the paperwork the person on duty said that officer had stopped at least a dozen duallies on that one day. Now when doing something wrong we're fair game. I get that but this sounds like such a poor use of police resources.
This is exactly what I was talking about previously. Here in our (yours and mine at least) York Regional, Durham Regional Peel Regional and South Simcoe Police each have several specialized Commercial Vehicle Enforcement units with specialized vehicles complete with portable scales, jacks, tools, etc., everything they need to be 'truck cops'.
I was at the kangaroo court recently (to fight a ticket where the officer was genuinely wrong) in York Region and the list of 'guests' outside of the court room went 5 pages long, and almost nobody had less than 3 separate offences listed.
