If your fleet runs trailers and intermodal chassis in B.C., staying buttoned-up on inspections and paperwork isn’t optional—it’s the difference between clean turns and costly downtime at a scale or roadside check. This 2025 guide distills what you actually need for CVI (Commercial Vehicle Inspection), registration/insurance, daily trip inspections, and winter chain season—plus a simple, […]
How to keep turns up when vessels bunch, gates fill, and rail cutoffs loom. Peak season around the Port of Vancouver is a game of minutes: a vessel arrives early, a rail window tightens, and a perfectly planned day turns into detention, storage, or a missed cutoff. 2025 is especially unforgiving because volumes are up […]
Tri-axle chassis spread weight across three axles, giving you more legal payload headroom, less risk of roadside re-work, and smoother turns on heavy 40s — especially in the Lower Mainland dray lanes. BC Laws If you routinely touch overweight 40’ containers (rail pulls near 60–65k lb cargo) or run steep grades, tri-axles reduce fines, tire/brake […]
If you’re running freight across the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley, or up through the Coquihalla, a smart dry-van leasing plan can make the difference between smooth peak-season turns and costly downtime. This 2025 playbook covers how to pick the right 53′ dry-van spec, what B.C. compliance you actually need, and how to structure leases so […]
A message from Mainland Truck and Trailer Sales & Leasing September 11, 2001 changed the course of history. Twenty-four years later, the images of that morning remain vivid: lives cut short, families forever altered, and first responders running toward danger with courage that still humbles us. Today, we pause to remember the nearly 3,000 souls […]
Cash, control, and risk—those three variables decide whether a chassis strategy actually makes money in 2025. Buy everything and you’ll tie up capital. Rent everything and you’ll pay a premium for convenience. In a market where interest rates have eased and insurance pricing is softening, but demand still ebbs and flows week-to-week, lease-to-own (LTO) is […]
If your containers touch U.S. lanes in 2025, “origin risk” is now a line item—right beside fuel and insurance. The tariff environment for container chassis did not fade with the pandemic. In fact, it broadened this year. The United States continues to enforce antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders on Chinese-origin chassis that date to […]
If your boxes touch Vancouver or Prince Rupert in 2025, you don’t just need more chassis—you need the right chassis strategy. Freight is recovering, railroads are investing, and the Port of Vancouver’s next big expansion is officially moving through procurement. But the next two to three years will still be defined by variability—vessel bunching, seasonal […]
Western Canada’s freight economy is pivoting—again. After two years of stop-start normalization, the Port of Vancouver just posted an 11% rebound to ~3.5M TEU in 2024, marking a return toward pre-pandemic cadence and setting up a stronger 2025 peak season. That rising tide is flowing through B.C.’s rail corridors, where CN alone plans $615M in […]
Surrey, BC – In a significant escalation of trade tensions, the U.S. government implemented 35% tariffs on Canadian goods as of August 1, 2025, triggering steep cost increases for imported trucks, trailers, heavy equipment, and associated components. Portions of goods flagged as transshipped may incur duties as high as 40%, even when originating from Canada. […]