gitane59 wrote:
JaxDad wrote:
No, optics have nothing to do with it, on Holiday weekends and the Friday / Tuesday on either side of them they have 'safety blitz's' where ANY vehicle pulling a trailer is fair game regardless of appearance.
They set up importu inspection stations in parking lots alongside major highways then have OPP and Carrier Enforcement units escort traffic in off the highway for inspection.
A neighbour of mine at the cottage got a hard lesson on the side of the 400 south of Barrie. With an almost new F150 and box trailer he collected nearly $1,000 in tickets. Mind knowing him he very likely got mouthy and racked up a couple he might not have otherwise. He told me he had to drop the trailer and go to CT and buy some new binder straps before they'd even let him continue on. He had been also ordered to get both truck & trailer inspected pronto or there'd be more tickets coming.
Just another reason to be happy I don't live in the GTA region. I have never heard of these safety blitzes being run anywhere but on that crazy stretch of 400 highway from the GTA to cottage country. Guess these is simply not enough volume of vehicles to test to warrant these safety blitzes in SWO.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the powers that be have already announced that the enforcement of these sorts of laws is going to be dramatically stepped up.
Regional Police forces are forming commercial vehicle enforcement units it they don't already have one. Again, a few bad apples, mostly small landscapers and contractors, have caused a bunch of regulation and oversight for all to deal with.
Of course I doubt that the money the broke Provincial government will receive from all those tickets had anything to do with it. LOL.
