Here in Canada, lights may be required if your cargo obscures the stock lights of the car.
For a extra long load extending over 24", you do need a red flag or other marker; your reflective tape is better than most people do.
I doubt the cops will give you any trouble. They will probably be more concerned about automated tolls that use photos of your rear license plate to send out the invoice.
Usually what I've seen are scrap safety vests or yellow shopping bags tacked on the end of lumber that extend past the end of people's vehicles. I spent some time helping a friend build a deck a couple of summers ago and got to see how various people took care of that at the lumber yard we visited frequently during the project. My friend actually got a ticket because he picked up a couple of planks he needed for the deck and wedged them into the passenger footwell of a beat up junk Mustang convertible he was driving at the time and they extended up between the two front seats, across the back, and ended over top of the trunk. They didn't extend past the rear end of the car so he didn't think he needed a flag, didn't put one on, and got hit with a ticket which he planned to fight. I need to ask what happened with that.
As for licence plate visibility to 407 toll scanners, I suspect most things that would interfere with those would interfere with the plates being visible in general. I flat out refuse to use the 407.
I never knew about that place .... I worked just west of there (just on the other side of Hwy 401) in the 90s. All the workplaces moved out to Mississauga/Oakville as that area gentrified. I left the GTA 17 years ago since it was getting way too congested.
Edit: Oh, and I joined those workplaces when they were Canadian companies and left when they were American companies... but not for that reason.
It's got to be one of the last disaster zone surplus shops going where you can get industrial castoffs for reasonable prices and I bought a number of pieces of bench equipment there over the last 2-3 years. I wonder how long they and the other commercial/light industrial businesses in the area will be around for with all the gentrification going on in Toronto, especially in that area once the condo developers started moving in after christening the area the "Castlefield Design District".
Vaughn and Markham are another two places that have had a lot of workplaces relocate from Toronto. The city's really split into a financial services and soft tech hub, playground for the rich, and a barracks for the army of low wage/gig economy workers that do the grunt work of keeping all of the service and hospitality stuff running with a huge and growing gap in between where the middle used to be. I'd leave the GTA too if I could cleanly sever ties to the area.
Hmmmm, time to do some research. I always used 24" as the limit for Ontario & Quebec. @SkyMaster is quoting 1m.
My trick is to always stock up anywhere that has red plastic shopping bags. I keep a few in the larger vehicles. If I am possibly going to haul something large, I use a staple gun to attach the bag to make a flag. It works really well for lumber.
The case of the Mustang might not be about an overhanging load, but if the load was adequately secured; there is a law for that as well with higher penalties.
Oh, I hate the 407 and avoid it. That concrete surface generates weird harmonics in the truck tires and I went bonkers within 3 minutes of getting on that highway. That was during the free introduction; never again even when it was free. The A20 on the east side of Montreal also uses photo invoicing; $8 ($2 I think if you buy a transponder) to save 1.5 hours on pristine highway is absolutely worth it. The A30 on the south shore of Montreal is $2+change, but uses toll booths where you have to stop, and again the highway is pristine and can save an hour to go around the city.
@mnem,
then pull short and lean forward so your inertia makes the back tire dig into the log
Hey, that is different than my technique on the mountain bike. Thanks!!!, I am going to play around with my technique to see if that helps with the back wheel. I find I can smoothly float/pop my front wheel over, but always have a hit and loose momentum with the back wheel.
@Cerebus, thanks for the reminder on safety. It should be a conscious thing. I actually was wearing trainers, but they were a bit light on the upper. My mistake was to give the metal a bit of a kick to push it back into place; there was a bit too much frustration with the situation so the kick force was excessive; lesson learned! The kid saw it happen, so I get scolded every time he wants me to run with him or do something active. Certainly I did not foresee all the consequences, and have paid more than my due for the error of my ways....
@25 CPS, Oh no! That is dangerous when they name a neighbourhood; that is always the beginning of the end. I saw it happen at Young & Eligible (Yonge Street & Eglinton Avenue). I too still have connections in the GTA, but those have somewhat spread out. It depends on how close you need to keep those connections. Greater Ottawa Area to Toronto is about 4 hours by train, 5 by car or 0.5 by plane if urgent; that works for me.
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