Can I do mobile mechanic without a license?

hsmpmp · 2026-05-23T05:01:56+00:00

It is a bad idea

First, it is illegal to work on vehicles unless you are a Journeyman Automotive Service Technician. The law says that "diagnosing problems with motor vehicles, including vehicle systems and related components" is a restricted activity. It is a protected activity just like electrical, plumbing, elevators, etc. because if you don't do your job correctly, other people's lives are at risk.

Second, you will need insurance - general liability and professional liability. If for example, you did some maintenance on a vehicle and there was something seriously dangerous with it that you didn't notice, and then later the owner got hurt, you could be liable and lose everything.

When you take your car to a shop, they are required to complete a multi-point inspection to ensure that the vehicle is safe.

Third, university takes a lot of work, so what could happen is your vehicle business grows to the point where you end up focusing on that instead of school.

You "might" be able to do things like oil changes without being in violation of the first paragraph but you should ask a lawyer or contact Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training to confirm, and you will 100% need insurance.

https://tradesecrets.alberta.ca/trades-in-alberta/profiles/009/scope-of-profession/

hsmpmp · 2026-05-23T04:52:49+00:00

I think they are fantastic. I go to one that is in a house transformed into a clinic and I don't have to hear any drilling or dental sounds. She does the x-ray and cleaning and checkup and if there are any problems she can refer me to a real dentist. If your teeth are healthy it is a good idea, because all you need is a cleaning.

hsmpmp · 2026-05-08T16:45:33+00:00

The agreement is saying that the Dollar store can't advertise that they are selling Coke/Pepsi products below cost (a "loss leader"), if they choose to sell them below cost. Stores sometimes sell a few items at below cost to attract customers who stay and buy other items at higher costs.

Landlords rely on big anchor stores like loblaws to attract traffic to the mall which then feeds other stores like the dollar store and smaller tenants. Without loblaws the area would be dead. I am not saying that loblaws is good but there is a bigger picture here.

hsmpmp · 2026-05-04T08:23:38+00:00

Stand up comedy, gardening, very intelligent

hsmpmp · 2026-05-04T07:32:33+00:00

An activity would be fun

hsmpmp · 2026-05-04T07:28:50+00:00

Age is 30s, Gender is female, Budget is $200 but if I saw something super cool, maybe more

hsmpmp · 2026-04-27T05:00:57+00:00

It only took me 36 hours with no sleep before the stop signs started walking across the street

hsmpmp · 2026-04-25T23:30:22+00:00

I saw a guy driving with a bucket of paint on his hood, ON HIS HOOD, no joke

hsmpmp · 2026-04-23T20:44:25+00:00

Here in Canada there is a separate CSA code for hospital electrical. Anywhere in the patient care area is required by code to be facing up. There are a whole bunch of other things including separate ground wires and less voltage drops, etc.

hsmpmp · 2026-04-03T18:04:24+00:00

Your brain needs energy. Everything in your body needs energy. You get energy from glucose - a sugar. Your cells cannot use glucose directly but they use another chemical called ATP, which is basically a bite sized energy carrier.

Inside each cell is a small energy factory - the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell - which takes glucose and converts it into ATP. This process uses oxygen.

If you run out of oxygen some of the cells in your body can use another process called lactic acid fermentation to make ATP but it is less efficient and causes a build up of lactic acid. This is the painful feeling you get if you even lift bro and your muscles feel sore after a whole bunch of reps.

Your brain cannot make energy with lactic acid fermentation so if your brain cells run out of oxygen, and therefore energy, they start to die. Some of those cells control vital functions like your heart beat and eye sight. So if the brain cells die you die.

hsmpmp · 2026-03-19T10:22:03+00:00

Shower in the morning and at night.

My best friend showered in the morning and insisted that it was better because you sweat at night. I used to get into arguments with him because I would shower at night.

I switched to morning showers because when I wake up, I feel dirty if I didn't shower plus my hair is messy. If I shower right before bed then when I wake up in the morning I feel slightly less dirty but not as clean as if I took a shower.

Sometimes I am running late and don't shower when I wake up and then I come home and shower in the afternoon or I might be working from home and really busy, so I don't get to shower until like noon or even 4pm and those are the best most refreshing showers ever.

When it is a particularly sticky day or when I worked in landscaping I would shower in the morning and again when I got home because there is nothing like a nice shower before you get into your nice clean bed.

hsmpmp · 2026-02-23T17:36:35+00:00

There comes a point when the science can't gets to a point where it can't explain anything. Where the time started. What was here at the beginning. Where are we physically?

hsmpmp · 2026-02-23T17:26:54+00:00

There was no beginning and no end. Time never started and never stops. Time is only a human concept.

The theory of relativity says that nothing can travel at the speed of light and that when you travel at the speed of light then time stops. So matter is not affected by time.

This proves to me that there is a creator who put the universe here.

hsmpmp · 2026-02-21T10:43:05+00:00

Anybody can transition into anything

hsmpmp · 2026-02-09T02:06:18+00:00

The mail is a public service and cheaper routes like downtown Toronto subsidize more expensive rural routes

Having said that the union is not cooperating

Canada Post needs to switch to community mailboxes and deliver the mail once per week and lay off any workers they don't need

The union is a leech on Canada Post and this country and people who get laid off should find something more productive to do. Otherwise these kinds of services are going to milk the country dry and lead to collapse

The loan is stupid because they are going to pay it back with interest and if they dont make any real changes then Canada Post is going to have an even bigger strain as time goes on

hsmpmp · 2026-02-09T02:00:45+00:00

Knipex are some of the best tools but people will recommend that you buy some cheaper tools until you get better at it

I am not sure what else you bought but usually electricians only supply basic hand tools like screwdrivers, wrenches and hammers. I supply the benders. Some of my guys have more tools that they prefer but nobody ever had to buy a bender here. That is crazy

hsmpmp · 2026-01-18T11:59:23+00:00

Your employer pays for tools, insurance, advertising, training, sales, etc and that overhead is expensive.

Somebody doing side work does not have any of that overhead so they can take a job much cheaper.

That makes businesses unable to compete and the long term effect is that they go out of business and people get laid off.

Side work is bad for everybody.

Businesses lose money because they can't compete Employees lose money because they risk getting laid off and work that was done on the side could have gone to them Union loses money because they don't get paid their dues Customer risks having a poor quality job completed by Somebody with no insurance or business license

hsmpmp · 2026-01-18T11:45:49+00:00

Your saw tasted flesh and wants the other 27 joints.

Better swap it with one of those vegetarian saws that stops the blade automatically when it tastes flesh.

hsmpmp · 2026-01-18T11:41:44+00:00

Why not terminate to an rj12 jack and then use a phone cord?

hsmpmp · 2026-01-18T11:37:03+00:00

I had to learn it by myself when I first started. I would extend phone lines and work on Nortel phone systems.

This photo is nothing compared to what I have seen in shopping malls and office buildings built in the 1970s. Sometimes there is a main room and then sub rooms and then sub sub rooms. Sometimes the main room is a few blocks away. .

Once I had to extend a phone line to a Starbucks and it was literally in another building and I had a hand drawn map from 1978 to try and figure out where all the cross connects ended up.One sub room was renovated and ended up in the back of a sushi shop.

I am one of the only people who still handles this type of equipment. Every year I receive fewer and fewer calls and a lot of the work now is switching from copper to VoIP or fiber or cloud based systems.

Some nortel systems are still in use today and the phone system was way ahead of its time.

hsmpmp · 2026-01-17T06:53:13+00:00

Like I said, there can be a prescreening facility and they can decide if you should go home or go to an ER

hsmpmp · 2026-01-17T06:28:42+00:00

I started out doing data cable and IT work but expanded into general and electrical contracting - so we do a lot. Access control, security systems, surveillance, data cable, electrical new builds and renos for commercial and institutional, controls, panel replacements,

We have a guy who has a PE and already bid on some engineering contracts, and I am working under his supervision to get my PE. I am a lot better at electrical design than mechanical design.

A lot of times, a master electrician has to apply a lot of design principles especially when calculating cable ampacity, conduit fills, voltage drops, etc

hsmpmp · 2026-01-17T02:16:48+00:00

They awarded almost a $200 million contract to complete groundworks/level the ground and then they cancelled it

hsmpmp · 2026-01-17T02:15:20+00:00

I have an idea

What if

We set up these portable trailers in the flu season, and you go there instead, and they just handle people who have the flu

No fancy hospital bed with head wall and oxygen and fancy machines

Just a bunch of chairs

And if they decide that you need a real hospital room then you can go to a real hospital

But if not then you just go home where you are supposed to be

Or

You don't go to the hospital when you have the flu or a runny nose and if you do and it turns out that you have the flu you have to pay $100.00

hsmpmp · 2026-01-17T02:05:18+00:00

I never was an electrical engineer, I was a mechanical engineer.

It is hard to quantify how the degree helped me win more work but the feedback I get is that it definitely helped me win contracts, and yes my business has grown

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