First trip into Canada

Parlez-vous Français?

 

It's been years since I had to go to Canada, but making sure the broker/carrier has put the load into the pre-clearance system ahead of time will save you lots of time at the border.

Also, keep some American cash on you. They charged me to re-enter the US after making a delivery in Ontario.

 

Our HoS are different up here too. I know you can't run recaps indefinitely, need to show 24 consecutive hours off duty every so many days. I never worked enough days consecutively to worry about knowing how many days it was though.

Our resets are 36 hours, not 34. I believe you need to keep your previous 14 days of logs with you as well.

 

Quebec seems to operate on its own agenda too, so they might have rules I'm not aware of because Quebec. @Canadianhauler21 has mentioned they haul into Quebec regularly. They'll know more about it than I do.

 

If you're on reset, you may have to sit for a full 36 hours. I'm not sure the law there will accept seeing only 34 in your records, even having not been in Canada at the time you took the reset.

 

I had to go to Quebec once. It was an adventure I will never forget! I was basically a nervous wreck the whole time but in retrospect it wasn't really much different than anywhere else LOL. Of course everything is in French but most of the people I ran into spoke good English. Make sure your fuel tanks are full when you cross over.