Great Canadian Van Lines has units loading for Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria from the Toronto and Ottawa area.
These units are avialable to load February 22nd to 29th at special pricing.
Call our Toronto office at 647 887 0182 or 1 800 665 0055 for rates and available loading dates.

Thank you,

Great Canadian Van Lines

Samantha Zaharia
604-230-9679 (cell)
szaharia@sutton.com
www.samanthazaharia.com

Great Canadian Van Lines is pleased to recommend Samantha Zaharia of Sutton Group Realty Service as a preferred realtor for our clients requiring realtor services.

Samantha services the Vancouver, White Rock, and South Surrey areas.

Samantha has an excellent incentive program in place and is offering a $500.00 referral fee upon the final completion of each real estate transaction.

Your loading period can be anywhere from January 25th to February 5th, 2012 to receive this additional discount.

You will also receive $50.00 off just by booking on-line as a standard on-line booking discount.

Space and dates are limited, so call  1 800 665 0055 now to receive an additional $100.00 discount off your upcoming move.

We are pleased to announce that Brock Grin is our 2011, 21st Anniversary Contest winner of $2100.00. Brock’s name was drawn on January 4th, 2012.

Brock and his family relocated from London, Ontario in September of 2011 to Richmond, British Columbia. Brock came to our office in Delta on January 6th, 2012 to collect his prize.

Congratulations Brock, all the best to you and your family and welcome to Richmond, BC.

We would like to remind all of our customers in 2012 that each of you have a chance at this years prize of $2200.00.

Good Luck!

Great Canadian Van Lines

An amazing 12 part video series has been created to guide you step-by-step through professional packing techniques used by the pros.  Starring Mark Valliant, president of Great Canadian Van Lines, the exceptional skills of a professional mover are brought to the consumers.

When Great Canadian Van Lines President Mark Valliant opened his company doors in 1990 it was with the intent of eliminating moving concerns.  The company built a team of movers that specializes in packing and moving materials across North America.

Packing Without The 12-part Videos

Finding items broken during a move can be heart-breaking and frustrating.  The ashtray your daughter made you in Girl Guides cracks during transport, or perhaps the computer with all your client files is erased from being too close to a speaker magnet, can all cause our faces to turn unhappily.  This is the hazard of moving.

Professional Solutions

For people that wish to pack their own items Great Canadian Van Lines has put together a twelve part series of videos to show you how to professionally package materials to ensure a safe transport over any distance.  The packing tips include a shopping list of materials you will require as well as items unsafe for transport or prohibited in other countries.

By the end of the video series anyone can prepare for a move with confidence, knowing that the valuable tips they received from Great Canadian Van Lines comes from over twenty years of moving experience.

It’s a phenomenal video series that anyone looking to do their own packing must watch!  The assurance that your items will be safe, thanks to the brilliant 12 part packing video tips, will give you peace of mind.  With the decades of moving performed by Great Canadian Van Lines moving has never been easier.

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The  British Columbia Motor Carrier Commission  (BC MCC) issued a memo many years ago to moving companies of British Columbia. In that memo they stated that movers cannot charge an insurance deductible because this was something that only a licensed insurance company can do.

In our opinion if a mover damages or destroys something during the moving process, then provided that the consumer has declared a value for insurance purposes and has paid an administration fee for this declared value on their goods; and provided that the mover was negligible, the mover should either repair or replace the damaged item; depending of course on the type of coverage the consumer has. This process should not involve an insurance deductible fee.

Should movers be charging insurance deductibles? According to the BC MCC they should not.

Make sure you review your movers contract and make sure they do not have a clause with a fee for an insurance claim deductible.

For the record, Great Canadian Van Lines does have an insurance deductible fee clause in our contract.

1 Bedroom Apartment:

(3000 lbs – 30 cartons) 10 x 2 cubes, 10 x 4 cubes, 3 x 5 cubes, 2 x 6 cubes, 1 small picture carton, 1 large picture, I china carton, 2 wardrobe cartons

2 Bedroom Apartment:

(5000 lbs – 50 cartons) 15 x 2 cubes, 15 x 4 cubes, 6 x 5 cubes, 4 x 6 cubes, 2 small picture cartons, 2 large picture cartons, 2 china cartons, 4 wardrobe cartons

3 Bedroom Apartment:

(7000 lbs – 75 cartons) 20 x 2 cubes, 20 x 4 cubes, 8 x 5 cubes, 6 x 6 cubes, 4 small picture cartons, 4 large picture cartons, 5 china cartons, 8 wardrobe cartons

2 Bedroom & Den House:

(7000 lbs – 75 cartons) same as above

3 Bedroom House:

(10,000 lbs – 125 cartons) 35 x 2 cubes, 40 x 4 cubes, 15 x 5 cubes, 8 x 6 cubes, 5 small picture cartons, 5 large picture cartons, 7 china cartons, 10 wardrobe cartons

4 Bedroom House:

(13,000 lbs -150 cartons) 40 x 2 cubes, 40 x 4 cubes, 20 x 5 cubes, 10 x 6 cubes, 8 small picture cartons, 8 large picture cartons, 10 china cartons, 14 wardrobe cartons

5 Bedroom House:

(15,000 lbs – 175 cartons) 45 x 2 cubes, 45 x 4 cubes, 26 x 5 cubes, 12 x 6 cubes, 10 small picture cartons, 10 large picture cartons, 12 china cartons, 15 wardrobes

Determine your home size based on the information above, then enter the cartons based on the distribution above into the carton section of the Moving Calculator. This will give you an accurate list of cartons and will assist in providing a more accurate weight estimate of your shipment.

Most movers websites contain a moving calculator. This calculator basically adds up the dimensions of the items you are shipping and converts the measurments to weight.

What the calculator doesn’t do is determine your box count. This calcualtion is something you will have to enter yourself.

There is a simple formula to assist you with this calculation. Once you have entered your items into the calculator – the calculator will determine the estimated weight of your shipment, for example 5000 lbs.

To create a more accurate estimate add 10 boxes for every 1000 lbs. So in the sample above you will have approximately 50 boxes( 5000 / 1000 x 10 = 50)

The next step is to enter the boxes into the carton section of the calculator on the estimate form.

Watch for our next blog article – we will give you an idea of how to determine the distribution of these cartons.

Great Canadian Van Lines, a Vancouver based moving company, congratulates the Vancouver Canucks on their victory last night over the San Jose Sharks. It was an intense game and, thanks to Luongo and a great effort by the rest of the team, the Canucks are off to the Stanley Cup!

We celebrate with the Canucks and will cheer them on to success in the next round.

Go Canucks!

Children can get extremely upset when you move. They have to leave their school and their friends and they often don’t quite understand why it’s happening. However there are a few things you can do as parents to make your move a more pleasurable experience for your children.

1. As a parent, be positive and excited about the move. If you emit positive emotions, your children will feed off this energy and view the move as a positive experience.
2. Discuss the move with your children. Make sure they understand why they have to move, where they are moving to and what their new home will be like.
3. Encourage your children to discuss their feelings and help calm them or reduce any negative or frightful feelings they may have.
4. Let your children have a voice or say, perhaps this could be choosing what room they will have in your new home and how they will decorate it.
5. If your children are younger encourage them to play moving games using their trucks, dolls and boxes – this will help them to get excited about the move and better prepare them for it.

Don’t overlook your children on your move; discuss  the details and keep them involved with the process,  this will help to make it a stress-free experience for them and for you.