Crossing the border - What is required?

PIPS? Do you mean PAPS?
Freight into Canada use PARS barcode sticker
Freight into US use PAPS barcode sticker

 

When I was hauling reefer and using PARS (I too never used PAPS), I printed a cover sheet with a summary of all Bills of Lading and a place to put the sticker and emailed all the paperwork to the customs broker. Then I would hand over just that cover sheet at the border. In three years I only had one agent give me any grief. When I reminded her that by that point she had personally cleared me some 60-70 times doing it exactly the same way she just stamped my sheet and mumbled "have a nice day."

I assume she was just having a bad day as she had generally been very pleasant.

And I was willing to give her a pass as she was amazingly hot. Not just CBSA hot, but really hot.

 

I know I will regret asking this but What is CBSA hot exactly? Meryl Streep? Susan Boyle?

 

There are a few.... one in particular took my breath away.

 

Lois Griffin

 

I don't know what border connect is. I suppose they are a 3rd party that creates manifests for a fee. They can set whatever rules they want you to follow. I can tell you that I have created 1,954 ACE manifests using the US Customs website since they changed over to this system and I have used not one single PAPS sticker.

Yep that's what I do.

 

What is the fee to use border connect?