Here we go again....MV bans.

[derk derin]

So If military vehicles aren’t safe for road use then how are the Reservists and regular force going to get their vehicles from say Winnipeg to Shilo and back?
Or summer driving students around the city.
If they’re saying the vehicles in civilian hands aren’t safe for the road then what makes them safe if the military’s driving them around on the highways and in the city?
They may have to trailer everything out to the training areas now!
Derk

[rob love]

DND vehicles are federal. They are not subject to provincial inspections or regulations. That includes both the green fleet and the white (commercial) fleet. They are subject to the usual like speeding tickets etc but are exempt from parking meters and tolls.

[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.

[James P]

Originally Posted by derk derin

So If military vehicles aren’t safe for road use then how are the Reservists and regular force going to get their vehicles from say Winnipeg to Shilo and back?
Or summer driving students around the city.
If they’re saying the vehicles in civilian hands aren’t safe for the road then what makes them safe if the military’s driving them around on the highways and in the city?
They may have to trailer everything out to the training areas now!
Derk

The same bureaucratic government "logic" that calls a civilian owned AR15 firearm a "assault weapon that only has one purpose and one alone....to kill as many people in a short a period as possible". Yet calls the same rifle in Mil/LE hands a "Patrol Carbine".

[Duane Leiker]

The USA does or tries the same type legislation here. Without any fanfare or in the dead of night, they pass legislation that would normally never pass. We have people in organizations watching these Politician like a hawk. It all about control.

I mean absolutely no offense but, first they take your guns and now, basically the vehicles you drive on technicalities and overall BS. Is Canada becoming a pure Socialist/Communist/Dictatorial Country?

Just wondering.

[Marc Montgomery]

Suggest contacting Bernard giguere who led thé difficult but successful challenge the quebec ban