Vehicle Mounting

Here is how the work lines up. Car mounting in Canada is built on the camera-car fleets and stabilised arms that Pacific Backlot Services Vancouver, Cinemoves Toronto and MELS Equipment Montreal have refined across two decades of Hollywood North feature work, NHL hockey broadcast, Canadian and US automotive commercial campaigns, and ongoing CPTC-qualifying drama. Our rigging crews deploy the ULTRA-Arm, Edge Arm and the 24-foot Black Arm, the Russian Arm with on-board op and Bolt-style precision, Pana-Process and Pana-Glide stabilised car mounts, and low-loader process trailers paired with Mercedes Sprinter tow cars for dialogue interior coverage.

Here is how the picture comes together. Picture cars run heavy through Banff, Whistler and the Yukon. Toyota Highlanders, Toyota Land Cruisers, GMC Yukons and Ford F-150 Raptor 4x4s rated for the gravel ribbon of the Dempster Highway, the avalanche chutes of the Sea-to-Sky, and the ice-road descent into Tuktoyaktuk. Hood mounts, hostess trays, low-mode noses, suction-cup arrays and overcrank-rated bumper bars come pre-engineered against the Pearson Engineering and DOT load specs that shoots need on file with WorkSafeBC, WSIB Ontario, CNESST Quebec and WCB Alberta workplace insurance schemes.

Here is what we have to work with. Routes shape the brief. Banff's Bow Valley Parkway and Icefields Parkway carry permit windows controlled by Parks Canada — bear-corridor closures, wildlife-jam protocols and shoulder-season frost spares — while the Cabot Trail through Cape Breton Highlands, Newfoundland's Viking Trail, the James Bay Road in northern Quebec and Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim Highway deliver the cinematic exteriors that automotive brands and tourism shoots buy Canada for.

Here is the layout. Urban work runs in new ways: Toronto Lake Shore and DVP closures via the Toronto Film and Television Office, Montreal Pont Jacques-Cartier and Mont Royal access through the Bureau du cinéma, Vancouver's Lions Gate and Granville Bridge sequences with VPD traffic-control officers, and Calgary's Memorial Drive and Deerfoot work through the Film Calgary office. Cold-weather Quebec and Yukon shoots add -25°C protocols for hydraulics, battery cradles and op-warming arms.

Here is how the work shapes up. Our coordinators also handle ATA carnet import forms for visiting US camera cars, Transport Canada road-use permits on provincial highways, and IATSE 891 BC, 873 Toronto or 514 Quebec rigging-grip crew calls that the Russian Arm and process-trailer setups demand under CPTC and provincial top-up rules.