If you have IFTA / Apportioned plates you can run through all provinces at all times.... You submit your fuel tax report and then the fuel taxes get divied up by how many km/province you run in... Same with your plates, your PST gets divided over the provinces you run in. That's an A plate.
Most of the large grain haulers run these... along with fleets like Kindersley, Bison, etc... The plate will say Apportioned on it, and the side of the truck has a 3x3" IFTA color sticker (probably many because you get a new one every year).
A "C" plate allows you to run commercially only within your province of registration, unless you have a permit... and pay PST in the new jurisdiction... this is what a lot of pebble pushers do...
The reason why alberta companies get the gravel haul comes down to $$$.
When I was hauling in Saskatoon for Allrock [ Lafarge] you were making $1300 to $1700 a day gross if you knew how to drive and worked from 5:30 AM to 6 PM, and could run a loader. That's hauling 46,500 gross on a tridem end dump.
You got these guys from Alberta coming in with there combo units (which aren't safe, and the drivers are really bad)... but they haul more tonnes, and do it for way less money... basically now it's hard to break $1,000 a day gross with the quad combos.
It ends up being just more money leaving the province because a company like Lafarge gets a contract, hires out the hauling to Albertans, charges the Sask gov / city / company rates like they did 5 years ago, and pays the truckers 35% less.
More profit for them at the cost of jobs, and infrastructure spending staying at home.
Most of the large grain haulers run these... along with fleets like Kindersley, Bison, etc... The plate will say Apportioned on it, and the side of the truck has a 3x3" IFTA color sticker (probably many because you get a new one every year).
A "C" plate allows you to run commercially only within your province of registration, unless you have a permit... and pay PST in the new jurisdiction... this is what a lot of pebble pushers do...
The reason why alberta companies get the gravel haul comes down to $$$.
When I was hauling in Saskatoon for Allrock [ Lafarge] you were making $1300 to $1700 a day gross if you knew how to drive and worked from 5:30 AM to 6 PM, and could run a loader. That's hauling 46,500 gross on a tridem end dump.
You got these guys from Alberta coming in with there combo units (which aren't safe, and the drivers are really bad)... but they haul more tonnes, and do it for way less money... basically now it's hard to break $1,000 a day gross with the quad combos.
It ends up being just more money leaving the province because a company like Lafarge gets a contract, hires out the hauling to Albertans, charges the Sask gov / city / company rates like they did 5 years ago, and pays the truckers 35% less.
More profit for them at the cost of jobs, and infrastructure spending staying at home.
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