Loads going Into Canada

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It is not only the office staff that is responsible for making sure it will go ok at the border, when the driver picks up at the shipper, the driver needs to inspect the paperwork to make sure the " PARS " stickers are properly put on the shipping papers and to ask if and when the paperwork was forwarded to the broker and your office to make sure it is at the border and processed properly.
From the time it was forwarded to the broker, 1 1/2 hour later can you show up at the border and everything should then go good for you.
The driver needs to learn to do his job also, it is not only left up to every one else to do it, then sit back and play the blame game !!!

 

The office doesn't need to be involved . I carried PARS stickers and broker fax cover sheets . I'd fax to the broker myself from the shipping office . I always put the ETA 2 hours before I expected to be there because I had been delayed an hour or more previously when I had put the actual ETA . The PARS system won't be valid much longer when e-manifest goes into effect .

 

That's why I faxed everything to the broker myself and part of the reason I retired before the e-manifest went into effect . As of a couple of weeks ago Quality Carriers still hadn't registered for e-manifest . Once they do I sure wasn't going to rely on their office people .

 

Lol,listen my friend don't take the little info blurbs to the left as fact. I've been out here pounding for 39 years same as you if in fact that is the case. Doesn't make me a hero but just sayin'. The U.S and Canada are both members of the CVSA, does one scale do a more in depth job than another one? Sure they do but like I said, it depends on where you are or who you get. Ontario is completely anal about inspections especially the Winsdor to Montreal corridor. That all came about when a wheel off incident in Oshawa killed a woman and her daughter and since then they've just become stupid with inspections and of course the speed limiter implementation. Going out West on the other hand they seem to be a little bit more normal I guess you could say until you get into B.C. The Kamloops scale can be a real #####. Your next post about the ACI Manifest, this was introduced in November of 2012 to mirror the ACE going southbound. Soft enforcement was set up until March when Canada realized that there were too few carriers that had actually registered. As of Sunday when I crossed at the Sweetgrass/Coutts POE, the officer explained that the ACI will be enforced again come fall, and that there will be no monetary fine. They have been instructed to turn anyone around back to the U.S until they are registered period. You don't/didn't need an ACE to back empty? I can only comment on my experience which was that I DID need one. You also need one if your planning to run in transit, which applies mainly to Canadian carriers.

Have a rainbow day,

 

Nope , ran to Ontario at least a couple of times a month for 4 years and when I got to U.S. Customs just gave him my passport with the Customs fee and told him I was empty . No ACE , no problem .

 

As others have stated if your paperwork is good and your polite with the border guards you should have no problems. That being said you can always run into a nasty border guard on either side.

My worst experience was when the shipper screwed up the country of origin of the product. One piece was not marked and another was mismarked, this had me sitting in limbo waiting 4 hours for paperwork to cross back into Canada. I had to return to the shipper to have the unmarked piece removed and the documents corrected.
Overall it cost me a day but the shipper compensated me for their screw up.

Detriot seems to take the longest or cause me grief the most. I have not had problems returning to Canada.

As for scales I have only had problems with the Kamloops BC and Ontario scales in Canada and Wyoming POE once. I even had a California scale let me through 800lbs over on my drives.

 

Went to Canada 32 times last year it depends on the crossing/ load/and individual border guard (could be hours could be 2 minutes)
Just remember you are in a foreign country laws of detainment are different you are not a citizen.

if you have ever been arrested they will give you a load of crap dui/ child support arrearage/ drugs any of these and you are not going

 

Only 2 of the crossings into Canada were a pain. I have more problems with the ego maniacs on the US side at some of the ports.