Canadian Carrier PA to AK Questions

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Luke905

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Hello, I have a customer who wants to move freight from Pennsylvania to Alaska. I'm a Canadian carrier and as far as I know that will be inter-stating, please correct me if I'm wrong.

What options would I have because I don't want to do anything illegal.
 
Only U.S. carriers can do inter-state.

You have to broker the shipment to someone that does that if your customer is okay with you brokering it out.
 
Or you can refer the load to an American carrier for a finder's fee. Brokering is also fine provided you're setup as a broker in the states ..i.e. license and bond. If its a one shot deal you might be further ahead to go the finder fee route and be done with it.. minimal risk.
 
yeah if you broker the load without authority to do so you become personally liable for anything that may happen.

just suggest them to use their US provider.
 
What if I bring it to my dock with a US carrier and load it on my truck?
 
I suppose you could bring it to your dock with a US carrier, but, now you would have to place the shipment in bond for transit thru Canada, plus you might still have problems if it was suspected that you did this whole process to circumvent the law. If the shipment was worked on, repaired, changed or enhanced in Canada, your problems would be reduced considerably. Using a US carrier is your best option.
 
loaders said:
I suppose you could bring it to your dock with a US carrier, but, now you would have to place the shipment in bond for transit thru Canada, plus you might still have problems if it was suspected that you did this whole process to circumvent the law. If the shipment was worked on, repaired, changed or enhanced in Canada, your problems would be reduced considerably. Using a US carrier is your best option.
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Has to go in bond through Canada anyway unless you use the barge idea from Seattle.
 
Thank you for your responses.

What if I got the customer to bring it to a bonded warehouse in Ontario with another carrier and then transfer the freight as well as the bond on to my truck? Then I would bring it the rest of the way to Alaska?
 
In order for it to be legal for a Canadian to do it, the way it would need to look was if the load was sold into Canada and then exported from Canada to Alaska. The issue is not the DOT, it's US Immigration that will construe it as stealing an American job.
 
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