A lot of drivers just flat won't go up there
. Scared of clearing customs & snow I guess. Some can't enter Canada because of past DUI or Criminal convictions.
Customs is easy and Canada knows how to clear snow. I've been running Canadian trucking fleets for years before doing this, go up there so much through the same ports that some of the customs people recognize me when I cross. Freight is never slow for me because so many refuse to run Canada and it's always lame excuses I hear from drivers about why they won't go. Doesn't matter what company they work for, they are the same almost everywhere.
While they sit for days or even weeks waiting for one to California, Texas or Florida, I'm making money. I never sit more than a few seconds without a load and often am dispatched on another load before I've even made a delivery on the first one. I've even had Keystone call my company and asked for me to personally haul a show trailer into SK and AB for them this year because of my attitude running up there.
I'd love to pull the Landmark to Kewlowna, BC, really nice scenery up there........ but....... I have a tiny little problem with that.........
When I quit trucking back in 2000, went back into the Army and moved to NC, I didn't get my CDL "A" because I thought I'd never need it again (DOH). Commercially I can't pull anything over 14,500 GVWR because my trucks GVWR is 11,500 and the Landmarks have a GVWR over 16,000.
Kinda lame excuse, but I've been so busy hauling the lower GVWR stuff to Canada I havn't had time to go get it.
Mabey it'll slow down a little for me this summer.