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Prince George

Aerial view over dense boreal forest and a winding river valley near Prince George, BC, under an overcast sky
Canyon Runner Hotshot navy blue pickup truck driving toward camera on a forested highway near Prince George, BC
Canyon Runner Hotshot navy blue pickup truck hauling strapped equipment, driving on a forest highway near Prince George, BC
Canyon Runner Hotshot navy blue pickup truck side profile with strapped equipment in the bed, driving past pine forest near Prince George, BC
Aerial view of Canyon Runner Hotshot navy blue pickup truck hauling equipment, driving through a forested valley near Prince George, BC

Emergency and scheduled hotshot freight to Prince George, BC. Flat rate, all-inclusive of fuel and deadhead. $5,490 truck / $6,865 trailer (if required)

Deposit Due at Booking

$1,647.00

This price reflects our standard route. If road conditions or a closure require a detour, we’ll confirm any change with you before it affects your invoice — full terms in the conditions below.

Pickup: Vancouver / Lower Mainland area

What this price includes — and the only things that can change it

Standard load

Fuel, the empty return leg and tarping are included — no separate fuel surcharge. Covers one load up to 4 pallets / 2,300 lb, within the truck bed (800 lb, 5′7″ × 50″ × 60″) and trailer deck (1,500 lb, 140″ × 78″). Loading and unloading each get a 30-minute grace period, tracked separately — unused time at pickup doesn't carry over to delivery. Past that, detention is $140/hr, billed in 15-minute increments.

Three things add to this price
  • The load needs the trailer — more than 1 pallet, any pallet over 800 lb, cargo 60″ or taller, or wider than 50″. +25%
  • Pickup outside standard hours — weekday evenings 8–10pm +30%, overnight or weekends +45%, BC statutory holidays +60%
  • Tonneau cover add-on — optional, charged in full at booking, not prorated. +$150

All three are calculated on this page from what you enter, before you book — nothing is added at checkout.

Highway closures and route changes
  • Your price is based on the actual distance for your route. If the route or distance changes before we depart, we'll quote the difference at $3.50/km round trip and confirm it with you before proceeding.
  • On routes with no legal detour (Hwy 16, Hwy 37, Hwy 97 north of Quesnel, Hwy 99 in practice), a closure identified before dispatch means we reschedule to the next open window or refund your deposit in full. Once your load is on the road, any resulting wait is billed as detention.
  • A closure that hits after pickup is billed on the final invoice the same way detention is — $140/hr from the start of the delay, capped at our $375 flat layover rate if it breaks the driving day.

Rates effective August 16, 2026, subject to change.

Why This Price Is Simple

  • Fuel and the empty return trip are already built in — no separate fuel surcharge line.
  • Most hotshot and courier companies in BC and Alberta don’t post pricing online — you call and wait for a quote. This price is right here, before you book.
  • Published truckload fuel surcharges at FedEx Canada and Purolator ran from 69% to 96% of base freight in the week of 10–16 August 2026, and they reset weekly. This rate doesn’t move with them.

What can change this price, and by how much, is set out in full in the conditions block above.

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Description

What’s included: $5,490 flat truck rate covers fuel and deadhead, size/weight limits (800 lbs, 5’7″ bed, 60″ height max — larger loads require the trailer at $6,865), layover ($375) and detention ($140/hr — 30 min free at pickup, 30 min free at drop-off, tracked separately) apply on top if triggered.

The run from Vancouver

Prince George is about 787 km out, and a realistic one-way running time is 10 to 11 hours. The route goes Highway 1 or the Coquihalla to Cache Creek, then 441 km north on Highway 97, the Cariboo Highway. That northern leg is the long, quiet part of the trip — mostly two-lane, with a rebuilt expressway section around 70 Mile House, and long gaps between services. Prince George sits at the crossing of Highway 97 and Highway 16, which is why almost everything moving into northern BC passes through it. Loads continuing west to Terrace or north to the Peace add another 400 to 600 km beyond this point, so we plan those as two-day runs from the start.

What moves here

Be aware that the pulp sector here has contracted sharply and any older information is likely wrong. Canfor permanently closed the pulp line at its Prince George Pulp and Paper mill in early 2023, removing 280,000 tonnes a year and about 300 jobs. It then announced the permanent closure of the Northwood pulp mill on 14 July 2026 — another 300,000 tonnes of NBSK and roughly 300 employees — with the wind-down completing in late 2026. The city’s freight base now leans on its role as the service and distribution centre for northern BC, on health care and the university, and on rail: CN runs a major yard here and opened an intermodal facility in 2007 feeding the Prince Rupert corridor. The airport is the outlier worth knowing about — see below. The city counted 76,708 people in 2021, with the wider census agglomeration at 89,490.

Scales and seasonal limits

Both Prince George area stations, Prince George North and Red Rock, are currently listed as temporarily closed. The working scales on this corridor are Quesnel at 3870 Highway 97 North and Vanderhoof west on Highway 16. BC posts spring load restrictions as a percentage of legal axle loading — 100%, 70% or 50% — applied only above 5,500 kg licensed GVW. Northern restrictions run materially longer than the south: the Fort George service area did not go fully unrestricted until 29 June in 2026. Winter tires or chains are required on Highway 97 through here from 1 October.

Local fun fact

The airport has a runway out of all proportion to the city — 11,450 feet by 200 feet, opened in February 2009 as a 4,000-foot extension costing $36 million, and the third-longest commercial runway in Canada. It was built for freight. The idea was to let Asia-to-North America cargo aircraft on Great Circle routes stop here for fuel instead of Anchorage or Fairbanks, with 24-hour operations and no noise curfew. Mr. PG, at the junction of Highways 97 and 16, is the easiest landmark to route from; both his original and current heads were built from a spherical plastic septic tank.

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