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Hired trucking services

There are over 60 approved hired trucking/haulage companies registered to provide services for the City of Vancouver.

The City's Engineering Services branches (Sewer, Waterworks, and Streets) have a certain number of companies that work for a branch on a regular basis from the approved supplier list.

These companies are placed on a branch list and their performance is ranked.

Find information on the rankings, payment, method of assessment and means of appealing assessments for trucking and haulage companies.

Trucking services and suppliers

Vehicle requirements and services agreement

Find the City of Vancouver's requirements for trucking services suppliers, as well as the trucking and haulage services agreement form.

Lists and ranking of hired service providers

Find the current branch list of truck and hauling service suppliers and their hiring rank.

Rates of pay

Find rates of pay for trucking services used by the City of Vancouver.

How we request services

The City's goal is to distribute work requests equally between hired truckers. Learn more about how the City handles trucking service requests to ensure equal distribution of work.

Evalutations and appeals

How we evaluate performance

We work to ensure that the evaluation system we use for hired trucker rankings is as open, transparent, and trusted as possible.

The City wants to ensure that trucking and hauling service providers are treated fairly, that they have the opportunity to understand the reason for their ranking through assessments, and to bring forward their concerns through the following appeal process.