In the U.S.,“return trip-outward move”restricts Canadian tractortrailers to hauling domestic goods only on“regularly-scheduled”international runs and forces them to proceed northward (i.e.,“outward”)
while moving these goods.
U.S. cabotage restrictions also apply to
empty equipment, which causes significant extra expenses for Canadian
truckingfirms. Truckers like to drop off full trailers for unloading, and
take another empty trailer to their next customer. In the U.S., the Canadian carrier has to pay a U.S. trucker to pull the empty trailer to the next
job, while the Canadian tractor and driver tail along behind. Canada has
no restrictions on the relocation of empty truck trailers