Traveling to Canada from USA with Temporary plates

I was wondering if anyone can help me. I just recently purchased a new
vehicle and have temporary plates. I am taking a road trip from NJ to
Toronto and need to know if I will be allowed to leave the country and
re-enter with temporary plates.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx :)

On Jul 22, 8:55 am, "Alyssa" <Kefalot...@> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone can help me. I just recently purchased a new
> vehicle and have temporary plates. I am taking a road trip from NJ to
> Toronto and need to know if I will be allowed to leave the country and
> re-enter with temporary plates.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanx :)


Carry the purchase paper with you.

Sarah Banick wrote:
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>
>
> It must be a state by state thing. Here in Georgia, we get a temporary tag
> worth one month while the dealer sends the info to the appropriate parties.
> The plate shows up in the mail.


It is. Here in Ontario you get the plates immediately upon registering the
vehicle and paying permit fees, or you can have an old plate transferred
to the new vehicle. In many US states there is a temporary permit issued
and it takes several weeks to get the plates.

Stephan in Burlington wrote:
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>
> Inteerstingly enough (or maybe not), on the way home from work today,
> I saw a commercial van in Oakville with a temporary plate from
> Illinois.

There used to be reciprocal registration agreements between Ontario and
most (not all) states. If they are based or have a base in the state where
they are plated they can come into Ontario to deliver a load or to pick one
up as long as they weren't running point to point, which also be a customs
and immigration violation. There was never reciprocal registration
exemptions for the Canadian provinces. They had to get plates prorated for
the provinces in which they were operating, which involved paying a fee to
each of those provinces and it would appear on the registration cab card.
Now there is an International Registration Program (IRP) which allows them
one plate but prorated registration paid to numerous states and provinces.

For some reason, a number of states do not give them their plates right
away. They get a temporary registration until their plates come in and the
prorates will show on the permit.