tracked vehicle question?

[charlie fitton]

" ag-operator, then a few bales of hay in the back heading to a waiting customer should suffice. "

And as soon as an accident happens, the police and the insurance company see right through this and walk away laughing...and jack up your rates.

No sense trying to con anyone...carriers are not ATV's, not snowmobiles, not tractors, not anything but what they are.

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[jeff davis]

I talked with Insurance Corperation of B.C employee today and they have not heard of anything to disallow us to drive are Tracked Vehicles or to not allow the Registration of future Bren Carriers on road.
Possibly just fear mongering to drive up the price of Registered Tracked Vehicles
Regards
Jeff

[cletrac (RIP)]

I had a trucker in Alberta complaining about something I was going to tow home with my farm pickup. I pointed to the F on the license plate and said "See that? That means I can do any "f"ing thing I want!" He walked away in disgust.

[jeff davis]

Farmers Rule

[DanJahn]

That's good to hear that the rumors about it getting harder or impossible to get tracked vehicles registered here in BC may be false. Speaking for myself I met a lot of resistance trying to get two halftrack projects registered and that was at the head office level. So I gave up. I know of another person ( no names ) that had a hard time just trying to transfer an already registered tracked vehicle. So it is good to hear that it may only be fear mongering.I guess we won't know for sure until someone gives it a try.

Thank you for everyone's input.


Dan

[Frank v R]

never tell them more than their poor little brains can handle , a Halftrack has 2 drive axles , sounds like a White truck to me, my 2 cents, and Hagerty insures them but make sure you speak only to Hagerty,

[Grant Bowker]

Several provinces (I believe BC, Sakatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec) have mandatory provincially run insurance plans that vehicle owners are required to deal with for basic liability coverage. In these provinces, you only get to chose the provider for optional coverages such as fire/theft/collision. In these provinces, it can be hard to get round the combination of registrar and (basic) insurer combined into govenment staff. As stated above, there seem to be conflicting opinions expressed by different staff and conflicting experience with different offices of the same agencies.
"Restored historic vehicle" has a very diiferent ring to it than "old tank" so a great deal may depend on the sympathy/interest/knowledge level of the person you are dealing with and their reaction to your approach.
If you have knowledge of the text of the acts and regulations, you may be able to lead them to accept your position by being able to show the text that permits them to do what you are asking for. Regulations can be written and interpreted as permitting, restricting or prohibiting activities. Hopefully the "historic vehicle" owners can find clauses in the regulations that permit their intended use rather than meeting staff who quote clauses prohibiting the activity.

[Perry Kitson]

I have been through the registration and insurance thing more times than I care to remember. In Ontario, you can get a registration for almost anything you want, it's getting it plated and insured that is the difficult thing. As soon as an insurance company knows it's an armoured vehicle, they will not touch it, Hagerty included. If you only give them a little bit of information to get it through the insuring process, it's like Charlie says, be prepared to lose your house and all your worldly possessions in the lawsuit that follows if you are ever involved in an accident.

Perry