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Medicine Hat

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Emergency and scheduled hotshot freight to Medicine Hat, AB. Flat rate, all-inclusive of fuel and deadhead. $8,835 truck / $11,045 trailer (if required)

Deposit Due at Booking

$2,650.50

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: $8,835 flat truck rate covers fuel and deadhead, size/weight limits (800 lbs, 5’7″ bed, 60″ height max — larger loads require the trailer at $11,045), 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

Medicine Hat is about 1,265 km out, 13 to 13.5 hours. The practical route is the Coquihalla to Kamloops, Highway 1 east through Rogers Pass and Kicking Horse Pass to Calgary, then 295 km straight east on the Trans-Canada. That last leg is divided four-lane the whole way and moves well in almost any weather. The Saamis Teepee — a 65 m steel frame built for the 1988 Calgary Olympics and re-erected here in 1991 — stands beside the highway on the approach into town and is the simplest landmark to route from. Running the Crowsnest instead adds about 50 km and six summits, so it is only worth it with a Kootenay or Crowsnest pickup on the same trip.

What moves here

Medicine Hat calls itself Alberta’s third-largest petrochemical centre, and the plant list backs it up. Methanex runs the only commercial-scale methanol complex in Canada here, at 600,000 tonnes a year. CF Industries operates the largest nitrogen manufacturing complex in the country — 160 acres, up to 1.5 million tons of ammonia and urea a year. Cancarb produces thermal carbon black shipped to customers in 44 countries. Goodyear manufactures tires. Around Medicine Hat and Redcliff there is also a dense greenhouse sector, including Big Marble Farms and Bevo Farms, drawn here by cheap municipally supplied natural gas. The city counted 63,271 people in 2021 — just 11 more than in 2016 — and about 68,714 by the 2025 provincial estimate.

Scales and seasonal limits

Dunmore VIS sits on Highway 1 just east of the city, and Strathmore VIS covers the stretch east of Calgary. Alberta sets spring road bans as a percentage of legal axle weight — 90%, 75% or 50% — on measured thaw depth of 25 cm, not a fixed date. Southeastern Alberta thaws early, so bans here tend to come on and come off before the rest of the province. Orders are published on the provincial road ban list and through 1-855-ROADBAN.

Local fun fact

CPR crews drilling for water struck natural gas here by accident in 1883. Gas turned out to be so cheap and plentiful that the city left its street lights and railway platform lights burning around the clock, because that cost less than paying someone to switch them off. By 1913 the city was running 20 municipal gas wells supplying about 30 industries. Medicine Hat still owns and operates gas and petroleum production today, which is the reason the greenhouses, the petrochemical plants and the data centres are all here.

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