Laughable Loads.

if it's still the same, you can haul into Canada, drop and then reload to come directly BACK to the states.

You cannot pickup, then drop off in Canada and then come back.

And everything I have been finding for Manitoba authority still gives me the same information.

 

I thought so, but I saw KF location as in the US so I thought I was mistaken.

 

Sorrento, Louisiana was what I saw in the location..... So that explains it... If Kittyfoot was in Canada at the time of that load..

Yeah its for both countries... US driver can't pickup and deliver same load in Canada. Canadian driver cannot pickup and deliver a load in the US.. I forget the term that is used for this. I guess it prevents from lost jobs to each countries own drivers... It happens still tho in both countries I am sure...

 

The term is Cabotage and it came from maritime regulations. In order to pick up and deilver between US ports requires one to use a US registered ship. This is the reason alot of the Alaska cruises leave from Vancover. Leaving from Seattle would require a US owned, registered and inspected ship instead of one from Panama of one of the other 'easy' countries...

There was some consideration as part pf N.A.F.T.A. on allowing one intra us load by a foreign driver b/4 loading back to his home country but it did not pass.

The same regulations apply in Canada for US drivers.

When we were in northern Quebec delivering for Provost, the main office wouldn't let the driver switch trailers to deadhead to the down from Three Rivers to Montreal and pick up his back load.

Then I had to listen to them gripe about how hard it was to clean that tank after it set up on the way down to Montreal. It would have been eazy to clean it Trois Rivers.

 

I was delivering the lumber and metal for a 60'x100' building to a job site. The 60' trusses (11' wide load) were about 8 hours behind me on a stretch roller trailer. The site was supposed to be ready.

I had to wait 5 hours while the guy tore out a fence and dug out a dirt bank so we could get around a curve in his driveway.

He said he thought it it was all coming on a straight truck.

 

That's why I stopped hauling metal buildings. These guys dream about their new garage or barn, and always fail to plan for the delivery trucks to get it there. I had one guy up in ME unload me with an excavator! Another guy in VT with a skid steer. Not to mention actually getting into their property.

 

We carry our own forklift to unload or just roll it off a roller trailer.

After several similar incidents, we got our customers to tell the end purchasers what to expect when their building comes. We deliver over $30 million of our buildings straight to job sites.