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Paul’s Hauling and ALK Technologies Serve the Frozen North
Paul's Hauling Ltd. is a PC*MILER customer that operates in one of the most beautiful parts of the world delivering bulk commodities, often to remote places, sometimes over frozen lakes.
Paul's is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and transports petroleum products, propane, compressed gases, agricultural chemicals, grains and specialized commodities for a wide variety of industries.
“We run about 1,000 power units from northwestern Ontario to the West Coast to the Yukon and Alaska and the 21 northwestern United States,” said operations executive John Erik Albrechtsen, who has been with the carrier for 25 years.
Paul's equipment includes fuel tankers, insulated tankers, pressure vessels, hopper bottoms and large pneumatic dump trailers.
“We can gross 137,000 pounds and they're all double units for the most part. Of course, we don't run those weights into the U.S. , where there are weight limits for that,” Albrechtsen said. “An average payload on a unit like ours would be about 91,000 pounds. In the U.S. most trucks are limited to 80,000 pounds gross – truck and load. In a lot of places we haul more weight on ice than U.S. carriers haul on highways.”
“There are northern roads in Manitoba , in the Yukon and Northwest Territories where we haul across frozen lakes and tundra into Indian reserves, hydro stations and diamond mines,” continued Albrechtsen. “The majority of those products move in a six week period between the middle of January and the middle of March.”
PC*MILER helps Paul's plan and bill trips. Paul's helps ALK fine tune its data, particularly in northern Canada . Albrechtsen describes Paul's relationship with ALK as a partnership.
“We've sent check call data to New Jersey for ALK to evaluate and help improve their mileage products. In addition to that, we've given them the long and lats (longitude and latitude) for the northern roads,” he explained.
Why did Paul's decide to use PC*MILER?
“We made that decision a long time ago,” Albrechtsen said. “We looked at other products, but the flexibility of PC*MILER and the openness of ALK products and people was probably the big thing. Then, ALK's commitment to the Canadian market, to the routes and environment of the Canadian market made it a more solid relationship. That's what the word partnership means.”
“We don't have formal partnerships, but ALK is the kind of company you want to do business with,” Albrechtsen said. “We have good discussions. We're open to sending them data and they're open to helping us out. We're willing to test different things for them, so it's a mutual relationship that benefits both parties. That's what makes it good.”
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