weight police?

wing_zealot wrote:

romore wrote:
The RCMP periodically will pull over non commercial trucks and check for weight violations particularly if they see more than one snowmobile on a standard box half ton or an oilfield pickup sitting on the spring blocks, those guys are always overloaded. Normally they leave us rv'ers alone but do conduct random roadside checks, we have been stopped without problems. However if we were to get into a pileup and were shown to be overweight, rest assured charges would be laid and the mandatory government insurance agency would bail on us.

I don't know what it's like in Canada, but here your insurance company doesn't get to bail just because you were in an accident. In fact, you can be driving drunk and get in an accident and your insurance company still has to cover the damage you caused. They can cancel for you any future events, but they don't get to walk away from their liability while you were insured by them.

In Canada, an insurance company will pay if you have an accident while impaired, then they will come after you in a civil suit to recoup their loss. Impaired driving is a felony in
Canada. Depending on the circumstances, the same might apply if you were overweight and in an accident.