Ontario Ranger owners: COM or PAS on your ownership?

[kishy]

Hi all,
Hoping to sort something out here but I need more data before I'm even sure it needs sorting out to begin with.

If you live in Ontario, Canada, and have a 1983-2011 Ranger, please choose which poll option matches your vehicle.
Multiple choice is allowed in case you own multiple and they differ.

The spot on the ownership I'm referring to is directly to the right of "Ontario", on the vehicle portion. For most vehicles it would say either COM - FIT or PAS - FIT.

Much appreciated.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

What do those terms stand for?

 

[kishy]

What do those terms stand for?

That's what I'm partly trying to figure out.
I believe it's Commercial and Passenger.
In Ontario, all pickup trucks are always commercial, but exempt from "commercial motor vehicle"-type regulations based on weight class and typical use. But they still typically get "truck plates" (which in Ontario are black letters instead of blue as on a car).

What I'm trying to figure out is if a Super Cab Ranger is classified in Ontario as a passenger vehicle (which I would determine from poll responses). I think I have a paperwork problem if that is not the case. Before I start peeling this onion with the powers that be I want to find out if anyone else has a PAS Ranger.

Every once in a while I see a half-ton pickup with the blue letter plates which is why I'm not just automatically assuming it's impossible for a small truck to occasionally be PAS.

 

[2011Supercab]

I've seen the same thing in Washington state.

I've seen a few crew cab pickup trucks with passenger car plates and I don't know how they are getting away with not paying tonnage.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

PA makes you buy a truck plate but not a commercial plate for a truck. Previous owner of my F-150 cheated the system by registering the thing as a 2,500# GVW since cost of the plate is based on that. I insisted on registering it at the actual GVW because all it would take would be to get stopped and an officer realize that the truck empty weighs more than that to get you an overweight ticket and just nope. Those tickets are stupid expensive.

 

[racsan]

In ohio 3/4 ton & down can be non-com but a 1-ton & up is com only, If I truely needed a dual-wheel pickup Id just get a 3/4 & roll a dually rear end under it & either get a dually bed or go with a flatbed. Although I think at one time the super-duty 250/350 was the same gvwr. Which doesn’t make sence. I might be wrong though.