Can a Canadian truck get its annual inspection done in the usa?

Cabotage laws do not prevent him from having his truck serviced in the US on his way home...

There is a large number of Canadian units delivering in the US daily.

 

Not a lot of people have much good to say about Brandt. They're getting too big.

 

… it’s possible to have a duel citizen or someone with a work visa working for a company in the other country. The cabotage law applies only to the driver not the truck or company. (As I understand it)

 

Yes, you can. If you are certified, or have the required experience, you can do your own inspections.

 

Because they're hiring younger new generation pretentious morons who either don't want to work or don't care to respect their workmanship or simply dont know wtf they're doing. If I can get truck fixed state side when I'm there thats what I'm going to do otherwise I have a few mechanic shops I'm going that arent franchise though Brandt.

 

I have a customer that does aerospace coatings. They have a customer who every month ships a truckload of parts to be processed at one of their coating plants. The customer is in Canada, and a Canadian carrier picks up the trailer, gets through customs, and then to the plant. The driver then goes to a hotel sits there waiting for the work to be finished and takes it back to Canada. Sometimes it is three days, sometimes it is 10 days, depending on the part. I understand from my customer, it has to do with the chain of custody and customs.

Apparently, this isn't the only one who come here and have their drivers sit around waiting for the work to be done.

The point is this - a canadian doesn't need a visa to stay more than a day. There is no exit requirement for them.

 

Yes you can do your own. They sell the form at most truckstops. If you are a motor carrier you can self certify that you can do inspections, if you’re not a motor carrier then the carrier would have to sign off that you can do inspections.

The company I’m leased to now requires quarterly inspections at their shop. Up until then I’d always do my own annual inspections.

 

Technically, yes. When I ran Canada, about 90% of m driving was inside Canada, since I live close to the border. A few times, my company had me go up to rural Quebec to pick up a load at a paper mill, bring it down to Toronto to drop it in the company lot, then grab a dropped US load from that lot to deliver around Montreal area, before I got an automotive load heading to Detroit. Probably wasn't 100% legal.....

I once met a driver with Sainte Jermaine (SGT; the fleet with the really bright green trucks) who did mostly California loads. He would pick up around Montreal, drive about 80 km to the border, then about 4500 km to his delivery.....