Transportation Coordinators

Here is how the work lines up. Transport planning in Canada is a discipline shaped by Trans-Canada Highway 1 and 401 corridor logistics, Quebec and Yukon winter conditions that swing below minus-25°C from December through March, Banff and Whistler backcountry access via snowmobile and ATV, and intercity firm moves that range from the Toronto-Montreal 5-6 hour corridor to the Toronto-Halifax 23-hour haul and the Vancouver-Toronto 5-day cross-country truck route.

Here is how the picture comes together. The coordinators on our roster build fleets around Ford Transit, Chevy Express and Mercedes Sprinter minivans through Discount and Enterprise Trucks rentals for crew shuttles, Toyota Highlander, Land Cruiser and GMC Yukon 4x4s for Banff, Whistler, Yukon and Iqaluit access, and 5-ton, 10-ton and 18-wheeler gear trucks through William F. White Global for the long-haul firm moves on Highway 1 and 401.

Here is what we have to work with. They route convoys around Transport Canada commercial car rules, set up provincial highway authority permits across Ontario, Quebec, BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, manage WorkSafeBC, WSIB and CNESST workplace-insurance records for drivers, and process CBSA ATA carnet forms for foreign-plated gear trucks and camera cases crossing the US-Canada border.

Here is the layout. On the ground, our Canadian transport coordinators handle the helicopter charter relationships with Heli-One Vancouver, Skyline Helicopters BC, Cougar Helicopters Newfoundland, Discovery Air Yukon and Canadian Helicopters Group that shoots filming in the Rockies, Yukon, Nunavut, Labrador and Newfoundland depend on for both aerial-unit work and crew-shuttle logistics into otherwise-inaccessible locations.

Here is how the work shapes up. They set up Quebec City UNESCO Old Town pedestrian-zone restrictions, Vancouver Stanley Park no-commercial-idling rules and Montreal Old Port motorized-car limits through alcaldía-level permits with city authorities, run airport-to-hotel transfers for arriving global crew at YYZ, YVR and YUL, snowmobile and ATV staging for Yukon, Whistler and Banff backcountry shoots, parking management across Toronto's Distillery District and King Street West, Vancouver Gastown and Montreal Old Port film-zone permits, and the cast-driver pool that global shoots building out of Pinewood Toronto, Vancouver Film Studios and MELS Montreal need for principal transport. We match coordinators based on fleet scale, 4x4 backcountry depth, helicopter-charter relationships and the bilingual driver pool each Canadian production needs across cast cars, gear trucks and firm-move convoys.