Where is everyone #5

The barrier to EMPLOYMENT is that you are not a Canadian citizen and you don't have a work visa therefore you aren't eligible to work. Same thing is a Canuck was too move south.

Also, you would likely be denied entry to Canada if you showed up at the border with a truck load of tools. They would certainly guess that you were coming here to work illegally and turn you around.

If you were to get through the border could you find someone to hire you illegally and pay you under the table like a Mexican migrant? Yes. Probably but you would have no workers comp coverage.

Could you get through the border as a visitor in your personal vehicle, buy a service truck and tools up here and fix stuff for desparate guys at scale houses? I don't see why not if you have means to take a credit card. But it would still be against immigration law.

Also know that in QC at least, repairs may only be done by them that are authorized by the DOT. And in Ontario at least, you need to be certified to do brake and tire work. I don't honestly know if the DOT inspectors check the mechanic's qualifications at the scale house but I do know I had to prove to my DOT auditor that my mechanic was Red Seal certified

 

I had to think about this one.

Not sure if a US citizen can form a corp or not. Still have the work visa problem for any US employees that the corp hires.

 

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Makes sense actually....

I by all means promote a person for getting every certification they can. But as I said earlier, some can pass the test with a book not actually with their hands.

 

Hmmmm. Time to do some homework on the Corp. Side of things. I'll see what it takes to open a satellite location in Canada. (Work visa., Truck reg , employees and mechanic shop not to mention yard with office/shop). You have me curious now.

 

I have no doubt that a mechanic qualified in the USA is qualified in Canada. There is a reciprocity there that makes our annual safety checks in Canada valid in the USA and vise versa. Also, if you were able to start a company in Canada, then that company could perhaps apply for a work visa to hire himself.

 

I wasn’t saying it as an American citizen to form a corporation in Canada, but as a Canadian forming a corporation or hanging their own shingle as a mechanic and being able to get work regardless of any kind of cert.

ie some people can drive the hell out of a truck but don’t have a cdl, vs Mega’s have cdl drivers that can’t drive anything without crashing. Capability vs “education” on a subject.

 

So in reality, there are no more barriers to wrenching on trucks in Canada, as there are in the US. (With the potential exception of brakes and tires. Seem to remember there is a rule in the US about brakes needing to be done by someone certified, might be remembering that wrong...)

I should have phrased the question different, because my question shouldn't have involved crossing the border.... or any type of migration or visa. It should have said, "Whats stopping a Canada Resident..."

Because of the shortage of help in almost every industry, it doesn't take much more than a heart beat to get a job doing anything that you want. In times that this isn't the case... When employers can be more demanding of applicants... they will start to require schooling, etc... to weed out the riff-raff, in hopes of getting better qualified workers. As a resident of the US, I can hang out a shingle, and start wrenching for hire. It sounds like the same can be done for a resident of O'Canada

 

I guess my thoughts as I read all of this wasn’t a mechanic going to Canada but a Canadian mechanic starting their own shop. If I was born and raised in Canada could I open a shop or do I have to go through all of the training?

I do know the big construction company I worked for bought a concrete paver in Canada, they sent a mechanic up to help tear it down so we understood the process. They sealed his truck so he couldn’t use his tools.

 

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