Moving Land Rovers from Vancouver to the Island
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:22 pm
Ok, those of you with nothing better to do will have noticed I've been having some shipping problems recently.
UK customs decided to take my container off the ship and failed to return it before she sailed. Thanks guys.
Canadian customs have now demanded (and have received) $200 to X-Ray the container in Montreal - or rather they have demanded the cash just-in-case they decide to x-ray it. If they choose not to, we don't get the cash back. Nice.
Anyway, I expect my two Land Rovers will pitch up in Vancouver eventually and that's when things get real interesting.
Some of you may be aware that I've recently and unexpectedly been in hospital, which was a bit of a shock, but not half so much as the one I got when I read my discharge papers and discovered I'm not allowed to drive for six months!
There may be a legal way (i.e. at great expense to myself) to mitigate that by half, but either way I'm not going to be allowed to drive anything on a Canadian road for some time.
So, back to my two Land Rovers. Despite many, many generous offers of help from people on the mainland and the island, I've decided that the most cost-effective, lowest hassle and least embarrasing way of getting my vehicles to me is via commercial carrier.
Anyone recommend a good one? What I need is a truck to pick up my 110 and 80 at Vancouver docks and deliver them to me in Cowichan Bay on the Island.
I want both vehicles to be on the truck back - I certainly don't want either of them on a dolly behind a single vehicle recovery truck.
Here's hoping you can help me out. Thanks, David.
BTW - If I can't mitigate the driving restriction down then my Disco will be for sale. It's got a 300TDi and manual transmission with less than 25k on them and it runs like a dream, but would kind of tick me off sitting on the drive for half a year laughing at me a saying "I'm fab, but you can't drive me".
UK customs decided to take my container off the ship and failed to return it before she sailed. Thanks guys.
Canadian customs have now demanded (and have received) $200 to X-Ray the container in Montreal - or rather they have demanded the cash just-in-case they decide to x-ray it. If they choose not to, we don't get the cash back. Nice.
Anyway, I expect my two Land Rovers will pitch up in Vancouver eventually and that's when things get real interesting.
Some of you may be aware that I've recently and unexpectedly been in hospital, which was a bit of a shock, but not half so much as the one I got when I read my discharge papers and discovered I'm not allowed to drive for six months!
There may be a legal way (i.e. at great expense to myself) to mitigate that by half, but either way I'm not going to be allowed to drive anything on a Canadian road for some time.
So, back to my two Land Rovers. Despite many, many generous offers of help from people on the mainland and the island, I've decided that the most cost-effective, lowest hassle and least embarrasing way of getting my vehicles to me is via commercial carrier.
Anyone recommend a good one? What I need is a truck to pick up my 110 and 80 at Vancouver docks and deliver them to me in Cowichan Bay on the Island.
I want both vehicles to be on the truck back - I certainly don't want either of them on a dolly behind a single vehicle recovery truck.
Here's hoping you can help me out. Thanks, David.
BTW - If I can't mitigate the driving restriction down then my Disco will be for sale. It's got a 300TDi and manual transmission with less than 25k on them and it runs like a dream, but would kind of tick me off sitting on the drive for half a year laughing at me a saying "I'm fab, but you can't drive me".