Here we go again....MV bans.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

When the guys were fighting the ban in Quebec, one of the things that came up was that under DOD rules in the US, vehicles must meet the Federal standards when they are produced. They may not get the testing, and may not have the niceties like airbags, but apparently that helped kill the new Quebec regulations.

Don't forget the government places itself above the law in some cases. Over here, the MoD can issue their own licence plates, they have their own blocks as the licence plate number is in fact the registration number. They can swap them from vehicle to vehicle. This is otherwise impossible as the VIN is linked 1-on-1 to the licence plate for all other vehicles.
The MoD does not have to insure their vehicles as they are independently risk-bearing, as they say. In other words, if there are damages the government can always pay up as they cannot go bankrupt anyway.
When acquiring the new fleet of trucks (see Dutch Replacing DAF YA-4442 With Scania Gryphus), there were some actors voicing that the new vehicles should be made less complex, e.g. not to have emission control systems. That would make them cheaper, easier to maintain and no-one in Afghanistan and Mali checks emissions, right? After they were delivered, the MoD found out that the new Scania trucks were too high to comply to road regulations The manufacturer is "to come up with a solution" but in the meantime MoD trucks are exempt from height restrictions - which all other trucks on the road have to comply to, of course.

All I am saying is that the fact that military vehicles comply to government standards when they are produced, does not mean you as a private person or as a company can fall back on that as the same government may well have applied some exemptions to those standards for their own good.