Ontario Annual Yellow safety inspection sticker exemption

[gitane59]

As of July 1 2019 Ontario drivers of personal use pickup trucks with GVWR under 6500kgs are now exempt from the requirement to get the Annual Safety Inspection Yellow stickers.
Please note that at the bottom this proposal has been "approved"

For once I can say GOOD JOB to the Ontario government!

I will be printing this out and carrying it with me to educate any LEO as to the changes if stopped.
Ontario Safety Inspection Certificate Exemption

[gitane59]

JaxDad wrote:


I have no doubt you are the kind of person who would maintain their equipment......

However.......

Someone is about to take THIS trailer down the road.

Thank you, but I completely fail to see how anything about this link is relevant to the original subject. Recreational trailers have never been subject to annual vehicle safety inspections regardless of tow vehicle.

If you are suggesting that recreational trailers should be inspected then we must include boat trailers, snowmobile trailers, motorcycle trailers and the inspections would have to be required regardless of the vehicle towing them.
I hope you see how any discussion about recreational trailer safety inspections would be any entirely different subject matter.

I'm sorry that because you use your HD truck for business and commercial purposes as well as pleasure that the goofy Ontario reg's require you to have yellow stickers on your personal pleasure water craft trailer. It is a goofy interpretation of the yellow sticker law when you really think about it.

[JaxDad]

gitane59 wrote:

JaxDad wrote:


This is IMHO completely the opposite of what makes sense. Commercial operators who need their vehicles on the road every day to earn their livelihood need to prove they maintain their vehicles, but privately owned trucks and trailers that might not move for months (or years) are good to go..

I see it differently. Commercial truck's are more often than not are being driven by employee's earning a wage not the business owner and wage earning employees have less stake in sensing and reporting issues with company vehicles that would cost them wage hours of pay. I can say this as I drive a company vehicle in a fleet and see this affect everyday with me and my co-workers using our company vehicles.
Personally I travel across the continent with my truck and trailer which is worth a substantial percentage of my personal wealth and the financial and personal cost's of getting stranded in some tiny town in God know's where or having an accident due to lack of maintenance is the fear factor that ensures that you can trust that travelling beside me and may I suggest most RV'ers either towing or bobtailing is much safer than traveling beside many of the trucks on our highways today even with safety annual certificates given the miles commercial vehicle must cover to cover company cost's.

I have no doubt you are the kind of person who would maintain their equipment......

However.......

Someone is about to take THIS trailer down the road.

[gitane59]

JaxDad wrote:


This is IMHO completely the opposite of what makes sense. Commercial operators who need their vehicles on the road every day to earn their livelihood need to prove they maintain their vehicles, but privately owned trucks and trailers that might not move for months (or years) are good to go..

I see it differently. Commercial truck's are more often than not are being driven by employee's earning a wage not the business owner and wage earning employees have less stake in sensing and reporting issues with company vehicles that would cost them wage hours of pay. I can say this as I drive a company vehicle in a fleet and see this affect everyday with me and my co-workers using our company vehicles.
Personally I travel across the continent with my truck and trailer which is worth a substantial percentage of my personal wealth and the financial and personal cost's of getting stranded in some tiny town in God know's where or having an accident due to lack of maintenance is the fear factor that ensures that you can trust that travelling beside me and may I suggest most RV'ers either towing or bobtailing is much safer than traveling beside many of the trucks on our highways today even with safety annual certificates given the miles commercial vehicle must cover to cover company cost's.

[JaxDad]

I dislike any rules or regulations that treat one class of people differently than others.

This is one of those instances.

All of the trucks in my fleet need to be certified annually, as are every trailer. So now we have a situation where my (literally) next door neighbour can take his 15 year old F350 down the road with his 30 year old car trailer behind him with zero requirement that anyone periodically looks at it to ensure they have good brakes, wheel bearings that aren’t about to spew, lights that work, etc., etc, etc.

I on the other hand have to have my nearly new F350 and even just single SeaDoo trailer certified every year because it’s registered to my company not me personally.

This is IMHO completely the opposite of what makes sense. Commercial operators who need their vehicles on the road every day to earn their livelihood need to prove they maintain their vehicles, but privately owned trucks and trailers that might not move for months (or years) are good to go..

You want to drive down the highway next to a camper pulling out onto the road for the first time in 30 years (and on those 30 year old tires) knowing it’s tires, brakes and bearings haven’t been even looked at since before the first Gulf War?
On the

[almcc]

gitane59 wrote:
As of July 1 2019 Ontario drivers of personal use pickup trucks with GVWR under 6500kgs are now exempt from the requirement to get the Annual Safety Inspection Yellow stickers.
Please note that at the bottom this proposal has been "approved"

For once I can say GOOD JOB to the Ontario government!

I will be printing this out and carrying it with me to educate any LEO as to the changes if stopped.
Ontario Safety Inspection Certificate Exemption

Thanks very much for posting this!

Not sure if I had anything to do with this but earlier this year I sent an email to our local MPP (who happens to be the speaker of the legislature) complaining about how us non-commercial pick up drivers are being hit with inspections and the need for emissions checks while car drivers don't need to. My MPP passed on the mail to the transport minister. Maybe politicians do listen to their constituents!

[Pipeman]

I was still working as a Firefighter when they forced the metric system on us here in Canada. We were given a 4 hour course on metrics. I went away on long weekend and came back to all the pump gauges reading in metric. Luckily one of the drivers scratched into the steel around the gauges, where it use to read 100 psi. So I got used to it but I rebel, even now that I've been retired for 16 years. My truck registers in miles and gallons and that's the way I talk(Imperial). I suppose you could say I'm bihandual......lol I'll have to go look at my GVWR on the door to see if I can stop getting an annual done on my dually which is for personal use only. Thanks for the update gitane59.

[Kayteg1]

I spend 1/2 of my life in real metric system and 1/2 in SAE.
My favorite comparison is asking SAE guys how many inches you have in mile.
Or how many 1/1000 in 1/16 ?
In metric it is easy - 1 km= 1000 m= 10000 mm
Back to original topic

Ontario wrote:
The proposed changes are intended to treat personal use pickup trucks and personal use pickup-trailer combinations equally, reducing stakeholder confusion, and minimizing burden and cost for vehicle owners.

I like the idea of thinking about citizens.
Only wish other jurisdictions could learn the same.

[romore]

Ah yes, the Gimli glider. It landed on an abandoned military airstrip the locals were using as a drag strip. Fortunately everyone got out of the way in time. I have to laugh at metric time. The daughter of an acquaintance came home with a note from school proclaiming they were switching, mother went ballistic. It was hilarious.

[free_radical]

Kayteg1 wrote:
OT, is Canada really metric? Come back from the great country 2 days ago.
My Canadian friend drives the car in km, but boat in miles.
He dives in feet, but measure mountain heights in meters.
He goes to buy some cold cuts and they are sold in 100 grams pricing.
I think I still forgot something.

Next April 1st Canada will alegedly start using metric time.

😛

Long time back when they changed from galons to liters some pilots made a mistake calculating fuel quantity and their jetliner run out of fuel,no harm done it glided and landed on some racetrack,just bent nose landing gear

Theres vid on YT called Gimli glider I think

[MDKMDK]

gitane59 wrote:

MDKMDK wrote:
Do you use your pickup truck for commercial use?
I'm afraid I don't understand this thread or have ever heard of the yellow sticker requirement.
I owned an F-150 for 5 years and never had it inspected until I sold it. I certified it prior to sale.

Can you explain this in layman's terms?
btw, the upper limit, according to the linked article, is 6500 KGS (kilograms), not LBS (pounds). That's 14,300 LBS, I believe.
This is Canada, and we're metric now (not that I like metric, but that was PE Trudeau's fault).

This only applies to Ontario and without getting into the craziness of Ontario reg's it applies to pickup trucks over 4500kg GVWR which your F150 would not reach and commercial vehicles. Regardless of what some people tried to suggest over the years all duallies and any commercial use vehicle of any weight needs the Yellow sticker until this exemption for personal use of dually pickup's

No we own our F350 dually only for towing our personal use recreational trailer. And yes I'm old enough that I grew up without metric and please forgive me when I forget the old man's Metrification
o

So, it's to do with heavier duty trucks, usually with duallies?
Ok, that makes more sense, that it benefits the people who drive these very large pickups?
In that case, congrats.:B

[Kayteg1]

OT, is Canada really metric? Come back from the great country 2 days ago.
My Canadian friend drives the car in km, but boat in miles.
He dives in feet, but measure mountain heights in meters.
He goes to buy some cold cuts and they are sold in 100 grams pricing.
I think I still forgot something.

[gitane59]

MDKMDK wrote:
Do you use your pickup truck for commercial use?
I'm afraid I don't understand this thread or have ever heard of the yellow sticker requirement.
I owned an F-150 for 5 years and never had it inspected until I sold it. I certified it prior to sale.

Can you explain this in layman's terms?
btw, the upper limit, according to the linked article, is 6500 KGS (kilograms), not LBS (pounds). That's 14,300 LBS, I believe.
This is Canada, and we're metric now (not that I like metric, but that was PE Trudeau's fault).

This only applies to Ontario and without getting into the craziness of Ontario reg's it applies to pickup trucks over 4500kg GVWR which your F150 would not reach and commercial vehicles. Regardless of what some people tried to suggest over the years all duallies and any commercial use vehicle of any weight needs the Yellow sticker until this exemption for personal use of dually pickup's

No we own our F350 dually only for towing our personal use recreational trailer. And yes I'm old enough that I grew up without metric and please forgive me when I forget the old man's Metrification
o

[gitane59]

TimnJo wrote:
Just a note; that's 6500 KG, not Lbs

Ah Rat's I will fix that right now. Nice catch!

[MDKMDK]

Do you use your pickup truck for commercial use?
I'm afraid I don't understand this thread or have ever heard of the yellow sticker requirement.
I owned an F-150 for 5 years and never had it inspected until I sold it. I certified it prior to sale.

Can you explain this in layman's terms?
btw, the upper limit, according to the linked article, is 6500 KGS (kilograms), not LBS (pounds). That's 14,300 LBS, I believe.
This is Canada, and we're metric now (not that I like metric, but that was PE Trudeau's fault).

[TimnJo]

Just a note; that's 6500 KG, not Lbs