Canada Dedicated Ikea

This sounds good. I will be following this for the info. Thanks.

 

that sounds great. Goodluck....

 

I'm guessing being out of Fairview, that there is an Ikea DC most likely in the Seattle area (since most products come from China and delivered at US ports) and would be crossing freight over to Vancouver/BC and back. I've dropped & p/u freight that was/had crossed at Bellingham on the US side.

I only crossed into Canada once during 2 yrs of 48 driving (at New Brunswick) and 2 border guys went thru my cab pretty good looking for weapons, drugs, and inspecting prescription pills as well (opened and were familiar with the std prescrip dugs as well as had to have name & doc's info on)...took about 15 mins.

Dont think that the job would be any more than crossing back & forth over a couple of hundred miles---but may be ideal for what you want as more of a part time job(?)

 

I ran western regional 'Express' for Knight for 5 yrs out of Phx, usually was out 5-7 days (10 tops) and home for 3 days. That way, swapping out trucks, I wasnt sitting on one that another driver could use. Also being out of Phx, (their biggest terminal) there were usually enuf available vacant trucks to hop in and get going!

But dont think a smaller term like Fairview could offer you that (?)

 

Here's what I can tell you because I used to run a lot of the Canada loads out of Lebec, CA and drop them in Fairview or Tukwila for the Canada drivers. ,

First your loads will come out of either Lebec, ca or Spanaway, WA. They will always be heavy you'll gross between 78k and 80k pretty much all the time. The lebec loads will be brought up to NW by an OTR driver and dropped on a yard for you. After you deliver to one of the IKEA's in Canada you will get a backhaul in Canada to pick up coming back to the States. Sometimes you'll luck out and get a pallet return load from the store you deliver at. Most of the loads I saw that came back from Canada where water loads. As far as talking to the drivers that where doing the Canada runs they seemed pretty happy.

 

NOTE:

The Ikea Lebec is a very big DC and located 'over the hill' from the LA ports. Must be a combo of cheap land (Wheeler Ridge) and centralized location. Didnt know it serviced such a big area---looks like most of the mtn west. I think that I heard of another DC being put in the Chicago area (?) b4 I left..most likely stocked by modal freight trains coming from the W. coast.

But the Lebec DC also collects loads coming from Mex (Otay Mesa runs) and may be used to distribute those up to the NW besides those 'landing' in WA (to Spanaway?) from China.....