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Revelstoke

Mountain pass valley view near Revelstoke, BC, with snow-capped peaks and forested slopes
Side view of the Canyon Runner Hotshot delivery truck hauling a tarped load through a mountain pass near Revelstoke, BC
Aerial view of the Canyon Runner Hotshot delivery truck with a tarped load on a switchback mountain highway near Revelstoke, BC
Front 3/4 view of the Canyon Runner Hotshot delivery truck rounding a curve with a tarped load, snow-capped peaks near Revelstoke, BC
Rear view of the Canyon Runner Hotshot delivery truck with a covered cargo box in the bed, driving away between steep mountain walls near Revelstoke, BC

Emergency and scheduled hotshot freight to Revelstoke, BC. Flat rate, all-inclusive of fuel and deadhead. $3,960 truck / $4,950 trailer (if required)

Deposit Due at Booking

$1,188.00

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: $3,960 flat truck rate covers fuel and deadhead, size/weight limits (800 lbs, 5’7″ bed, 60″ height max — larger loads require the trailer at $4,950), 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

Revelstoke is about 565 km out, roughly six hours — the Coquihalla to Kamloops, then Highway 1 east through Salmon Arm and Sicamous. Eagle Pass sits immediately west of town. The section that governs everything is east of Revelstoke: Rogers Pass, at 1,330 m, taking roughly 10 metres of snow a winter at treeline and closing about 100 hours a year for avalanche control. Three provincial snowsheds sit on that stretch, all built in 1963 — Jack MacDonald at 141 m, Twins at 188 m, and Lanark at 316 m, the longest in BC. Loads terminating in Revelstoke stop short of all that; loads continuing to Golden or Alberta do not, and get planned accordingly.

What moves here

BC Hydro is the current story. Revelstoke Dam stands 175 m high and runs 2,480 MW across five Francis units, and construction started in spring 2026 on a sixth and final 500 MW unit, in service by December 2032. The workforce peaks around 180 in 2029, with roughly $60 million in local spending on goods, materials and services along the way — a seven-year construction programme at the far end of a 565 km run. Downie Timber, owned by the Gorman Group, employs around 285 people across its sawmill, planer and remanufacturing lines, cutting 110 to 120 million board feet a year with a specialty in Western Red Cedar; its operations manager once described it as the last mill standing between Salmon Arm and Golden. Revelstoke remains a CPKC crew terminal, though the railway is relocating about 125 railroaders to Kamloops in 2026 on cost-of-living grounds. The city counted 8,275 people in 2021, up 9.4% from 2016.

Scales and seasonal limits

There is no inspection station at Revelstoke. Coming out you pass the Hope cluster and the two Kamloops scales on the Trans-Canada; Golden is the next one east. BC posts spring load restrictions as a percentage of legal axle loading — 100%, 70% or 50% — applied only above 5,500 kg licensed GVW. Winter tires or chains are required on Highway 1 through here from 1 October to 30 April.

Local fun fact

The avalanche control programme at Rogers Pass is the longest-running Canadian Forces operation in the country’s history, and it is ending. Since 1961 the Royal Canadian Artillery has fired 105 mm howitzers from 16 gun positions along the Trans-Canada, covering 40 km of highway, 135 avalanche paths and about 270 pre-calibrated targets — the only domestic Canadian Armed Forces operation providing live fire support. The military notified Parks Canada it will not renew, and the agreement expires on 17 August 2027.

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