Can I Re-new a Ontario Trip Permit???

[euroz24]

i bought a car last week and i bought a 10 day trip permit to get it home, but it was only valid 6 days since the car is not in my name yet. I need to get it to a garage for safety and emmissions, but my permit expired cause the car needed a lot of work. Can i get another one?

[cwb27]

Yes, I believe you can get another up to a maximum for 3 for the vehicle.

[weales]

Yes, I believe you can get another up to a maximum for 3 for the vehicle.

3 or 4, I forget the exact number.

OP, you shouldn't have much trouble picking one up.

[techwiz]

I believe it is up to 4 per year.

[IoannI]

Yea you can get another one. I don't know if there is a limit, but I know you can get them a few times cause I got a few in the summer for my uncle.

[Jin-n-Juice]

I wasn't allowed to renew a temporary permit in 2006. The MTO website says you can get up to 4 temporary permits in a 365 day period. I'm not sure why I wasn't able to renew it.

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/vehicle/temp.htm

[roccorally]

No, you cannot renew, provided I understand your scenario correctly.

I am assuming from your post, that you have just bought the car, and it is not registered as fit under your name (eg, it did not have a valid safety/e-test when you transfered the ownership).

You are permitted one (1) trip permit when you buy a car, but do not have it registered as fit. If the car is registered as fit under your name, you may obtain up to four (4) trip permits each year.

The idea is that you can buy a car, get a permit, go get the safety/etest, and register the car as fit in the period of ten (10) days, but not drive a car for an extended period without a successful safety inspection taking place.

Hope that helps.

(and before anyone asks, I know this because I buy alot of crap cars!)

[Brolo]

Bumping this old thread.

I bought a cube van and am planning to drive it to Vancouver when I move there this summer. I had the safety and emissions paperwork and transferred the ownership yesterday, but did not get it plated as it's off the road and I'm not touching it until May. Here's what I'm wondering...

Since I'm planning to drive it to B.C. and leave it there, what's the best way to do this?? Do I get a $15 trip permit and call around to get one week of insurance coverage? Or do I need to get it plated in Ontario, only to have to re-plate it in B.C.?

[ES_Revenge]

I have another quick question since this is a back-from-the-dead special, lol :)

When you get a trip permit, that only covers your license plating requirement though, right? You still need normal mandatory insurance coverage (from a private insurance company) to drive the vehicle, no?

[boosted]

you have to have insurance in ORDER to get a trip permit.

They also change the system around a bit.

To get a trip permit, you now require to have license plates registered to the car, and those plates will have a trip permit sticker on them. They used to have temp sticker license plate that goes on your front windshield, but they recently switched it.

In order to get a trip permit however, you WILL have to have a insurance policy #. alot of people do choose to fake one to get their set of plates / permit.

you best bet is to get the temp license regardless. then for insurance either get a temp 1 week insurance or get a company that is located in ontario and bc so you can use the same company in BC

[Brolo]

If I'm reading this right, you're saying that I could fake an insurance # to get a trip permit? I wouldn't even want to do this...driving across the country without coverage could be disastrous. (though I'm sure a lot of people do it)

I'm not even sure what the permit is for. Is it so that you don't have to plate your vehicle? So rather than pay for plate + ins, I could pay for permit + ins and it would cost less?

Thanks

[ES_Revenge]

I'm not even sure what the permit is for. Is it so that you don't have to plate your vehicle? So rather than pay for plate + ins, I could pay for permit + ins and it would cost less?

Colour me confused.
Well before it was so you didn't have to plate it but according to the post above yours, apparently now you still have to plate it but you need that permit to drive it without a [normal] plate sticker (yearly registration).

As for getting a permit rather than a plate sticker on a regular basis, that's impossible. The permit only lasts a few days and is not continuously renewable.

The permit serves the purpose to get a vehicle from A-B without actually having to register it fully. The vehicle might need to pass safety or emissions testing, for example, before a real plate sticker can be issued. However there's no way to drive the car to the shop to get that done without having some kind of permit to be on the road. So that's where the permit (now permit sticker) comes in. If it weren't for the permit then tow truck drivers would be making a heck of a lot more money, lol. (Or there would be a lot more illegitimate/licensed vehicles driving on the road everyday.) If your vehicle already has a safety cert (or doesn't require one) and has passed emissions, then no you don't need a permit but rather you should get a plate sticker. How this works when you're simply driving the car from one province to another though, to register it there, I'm not sure. Best bet is to call the MTO.

[Brolo]

Okay...so I already have the safety, the emmisions and have transferred ownership. I just need to drive it to B.C., where it will stay. So do I need to plate it? But rather than buy a sticker, I could just get a 10 day trip permit to get me out west?

Another thing...do I need to show the safety at ownership transfer, as well as plating? Because I had it for the ownership swap, and the safety cert is good until April 11th. I don't plan on being on the road until May...will I need a valid safety again to get plates/a trip permit??

It'll suck if I go back to the Ministry in May and my safety's needed again - now 3 weeks expired.

[Brolo]

Anyone?