Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Flashing blue is ONLY to be used by police or a snow plow that is under contract by the province or municipality.

Now there is nothing saying that a private snowplow can not have blue while in a parking lot....but forget and push snow across a road, back onto a road, or just drive down the street while the light is operational and it is an offence ...

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cruzmisl wrote:There are yellow and black plates and red and white plates. What's the difference. Do they both fall under the same regulations?

Dealer plate = white with red letters
Service plate = yellow with black letters

All plates/permits fall under OREG 628

I really dont understand this rule where service plate cant be used for private use, there is insurance payed every year on it , its just isnt right , all the people i know use it for private use , thats how it should be , i dont really see what cops can do to you.

A service plate is just that....to obtain service on a vehicle. So a business ...

A Service Plate can be used on any vehicle within the class specified in the regulations and not just the plate/permit holder's inventory..

Still must be owned by the person who owns the service plate.....

HTA OREG 628
13.1 (2) A Service number plate may be used on a trailer or motor vehicle other than a motorcycle or motor assisted bicycle ...

racer wrote:If you were sure about being "fine" than you could have requested the blood test as well.

Not going to happen!

viper1 wrote:they do try to set you up with as many as they can to save time.
Cheers
Viper1

oh yeah...they certainly do that!!

What about people with expired G2's?

The person remains a G2 and....

Any driver who holds a licence that expired on or after August 24, 2009 will continue to be covered under the automatic licence extension put in place by the MTO until July 1st, 2010.

*** NOTE *** this is drivers waiting for testing only.............regular renewals can still ...

in lieu of a ticket.....this is a better reminder....like to see this more often

If the offense (failure to wear seatbelt) occurred 1km away from where the ticket says it did. Is that relevant ?

The officer observed me without my seatbelt at an intersection, I then put it on and he followed me to my house (1km away) and wrote the ticket with the offense occurring on my street.

Dave

Only it means anything is if it happened ...

Is it reasonable to assume that the scheduled trial date from a particular speed trap would all be on the same date?
Last weekend I got stopped (20 Kph over) at a speed trap. There was another car pulled over before I even left. I would imagine that they would try and scedule all of the court dates resulting from those tickets on the same day. Is ...

coolcars wrote:I would imagine that they would try and scedule all of the court dates resulting from those tickets on the same day. Is this true?

No

MTO is not on strike.

The company that does the "testing" is on strike.

Therefore if it is a regular renewal for licences or plates it is business as usual.

IF it is an expired licence waiting for testing, this time period has been extended to 01JUL10.

How far down the road, from the point where the officer checked speeds, did the stop take place? Anything more then 2 KM would suggest there was other traffic at the time.

that has absolutely NOTHING to do with it. I routinely take farther, sometimes it has been 5-10k before I stop a car.....why? not for volume of traffic, but my dispatch is ...

since some are probably wondering how we check the speedometer at least my office....we have a radar in every car......part of testing requirement for radar is to compare to your speedometer. Testing is twice a day minimum.

If it is a car without radar, we would drive at a set speed (u/k speed to radar/lidar operator) and have them tell us what we ...