Driver, put your hands on the wheel
01-16-2005, 10:59 PM
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They aren't all federal. The ambulance, fire and police services all get their paychecks from the municipal government. The only federal police service is the RCMP. Ontario has a provincial police service. But none of those services are federal in Alberta, other than postal.
01-17-2005, 01:17 AM
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"ANY "Authorized" vehicle may be deemed an emergency vehicle, provided it has the proper lights, sirens/klaxon/bell, and is operating it's lights and horn at the intersection..."
A postal truck delivering a diplomatic pouch has precedence over all of the other vehicles. And that stands to date!
It's amazing what diplomatic immunity can get, imagine your own soveriegn property on someone else's land.
Reprinted off the net dealing with US law, but based on same principal.
"The highest law of the land is the U.S. Constitution. If something is prohibited in the Constitution, it's "unconstitutional" which is about as illegal (or "unlawful" as those in the know prefer to say") as it can get. If a law, ANY law, conflicts with the Constitution, the Constitution wins, hands down. An amusing corollary of that comes from the fact that the Postal Service is written into the constitution. It's unconstitutional to impede a postal carrier. Q. Who has to yield right of way at an intersection, a fire truck with lights and siren, an ambulance with lights and siren, a police vehicle with lights and siren, the Presidential motorcade, or a post office truck? A. Everyone has to yield right-of-way to the postal truck. "
Now you people aren't gonna go postal
on me are you?
[ January 17, 2005, 02:45 AM: Message edited by: Eli47 ]
A postal truck delivering a diplomatic pouch has precedence over all of the other vehicles. And that stands to date!
It's amazing what diplomatic immunity can get, imagine your own soveriegn property on someone else's land.
Reprinted off the net dealing with US law, but based on same principal.
"The highest law of the land is the U.S. Constitution. If something is prohibited in the Constitution, it's "unconstitutional" which is about as illegal (or "unlawful" as those in the know prefer to say") as it can get. If a law, ANY law, conflicts with the Constitution, the Constitution wins, hands down. An amusing corollary of that comes from the fact that the Postal Service is written into the constitution. It's unconstitutional to impede a postal carrier. Q. Who has to yield right of way at an intersection, a fire truck with lights and siren, an ambulance with lights and siren, a police vehicle with lights and siren, the Presidential motorcade, or a post office truck? A. Everyone has to yield right-of-way to the postal truck. "
Now you people aren't gonna go postal
on me are you?[ January 17, 2005, 02:45 AM: Message edited by: Eli47 ]
01-17-2005, 10:44 AM
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Originally posted by Vladi:
thats interesting, i wonder what is the bigger fine, goin around a school bus when its letting kids off or not giving the right of way to a postal truck if its got its emergency lights on?
thats interesting, i wonder what is the bigger fine, goin around a school bus when its letting kids off or not giving the right of way to a postal truck if its got its emergency lights on?
In Waterloo failure to do so can result in a fine of $500 and six demerit points.
I'll have to wait till I have that class again which I believe is tomorrow, and see if I can get ahold of the book the prof has that lists all the fines. (Only cops possess this tiny book and its VERY hard to get your hands on it, she wont allow us to leave the room with it)
01-17-2005, 11:55 AM
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Originally posted by Vladi:
oh god is this really that hard?
the mail truck is not an emergency vehicle!!!! thus the vehicle to the left of it goes first...
oh god is this really that hard?
the mail truck is not an emergency vehicle!!!! thus the vehicle to the left of it goes first...
