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Fort St. John

Fort St. John
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Emergency and scheduled hotshot freight to Fort St. John, BC. Flat rate, all-inclusive of fuel and deadhead. $8,570 truck / $10,715 trailer (if required)

Deposit Due at Booking

$2,571.00

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: $8,570 flat truck rate covers fuel and deadhead, size/weight limits (800 lbs, 5’7″ bed, 60″ height max — larger loads require the trailer at $10,715), 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

Fort St. John is about 1,259 km out, 14 to 15 hours. The route runs the Coquihalla to Kamloops, Highway 97 north through Prince George, then the John Hart Highway to Chetwynd and Dawson Creek before the last 74 km north. Pine Pass sits 192 km north of Prince George and is the lowest highway pass through the Canadian Rockies, under 1,000 m — but low does not mean easy. It closes for avalanche hazard and control work, sometimes for a full day; one closure in December 2025 shut 32 km of highway for about 26 hours. There is no short detour around it. The other constraint is fuel: about 150 km between Mackenzie Junction and Chetwynd with no services.

One dispatch detail worth knowing — Fort St. John stays on Mountain Standard Time year-round and does not change clocks. In summer that puts it on the same clock as Vancouver. In winter it is an hour ahead.

What moves here

This is the centre of BC’s natural gas industry. Montney wells account for about 87% of the province’s gas production, and the McMahon gas plant at Taylor, just south of town, anchors the midstream side. Completions work drives demand harder than drilling does here, and it comes in bursts — operators have been holding large inventories of drilled but uncompleted wells staged for LNG Canada’s ramp-up. Site C finished construction in August 2025 with all six units in service at about 1,100 MW, so freight to the dam is now operations and maintenance rather than construction. Agriculture is the quieter half of the economy: the BC Peace grows roughly 98% of the province’s canola and 75% of its grain. The city counted 21,465 people in 2021 and about 24,376 by July 2025.

Scales and seasonal limits

The Charlie Lake station is listed as temporarily closed, Pouce Coupe is staffed on variable hours, and Dawson Creek is self-weigh only. BC posts spring load restrictions as a percentage of legal axle loading — 100%, 70% or 50% — and applies them above 5,500 kg licensed GVW. The Peace runs later than anywhere else in the province: restrictions lifted on 4 June in 2025 and 15 June in 2026. Old Fort Road is held at 50% year-round.

Local fun fact

At 11 p.m. on 15 October 1957, the Peace River suspension bridge at Taylor — at 649 m the longest on the Alaska Highway — collapsed. A landslide had shifted about a million cubic metres of shale and moved the north anchor block several metres toward the river, overstressing the cables until they let go. Nobody was hurt, and the highway was cut. A ferry restored traffic within a week, and when the river froze the army converted the railway bridge five kilometres upstream to single-lane road traffic and kept it running around the clock.

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