Your RV, hauled and set up right.

What we actually do

Six services, all of them built around the same truck and the same trailer. Most customers book two or three of them in one call, because the jobs overlap in real life even though they look separate on a price list.

The core of it is RV and trailer transport. Travel trailers, fifth wheels, park models, toy haulers, boats and gooseneck trailers, up to 30,000 lb, hauled with our own equipment rather than subcontracted out to whoever is free that week. That matters more than it sounds like it should. When the same people load, haul and unload a unit, nobody is standing in a yard at four in the afternoon trying to explain over the phone which corner of the frame is safe to jack.

Once a unit lands, it has to sit right, so levelling and blocking is the second half of most transport jobs. A trailer that sits out of level does not just feel wrong underfoot. Doors and slides bind, the fridge sulks, and water finds the low corner of the roof and stays there. Levelling starts at $799 as a local flat rate, materials supplied, and most people have us do it while we are already there with the truck.

Park model and mobile home moving is the heavier end of the same work. Single wides and park models, with site prep, skirting and permits arranged when the unit is over legal width. Deck and shed moving exists mostly because of the other services: a deck bolted to the side of a park model has to come off before anything moves, and a shed parked in the wrong spot is often the only reason a trailer cannot get down a lane. We move decks up to 30 feet long, which is not an arbitrary number, it is the length of our gooseneck.

Outdoor winter storage puts the unit somewhere fenced from the end of one season to the start of the next, $85 to $125 a month by size, and we can tow it in and back out in spring so you never touch it. RV rentals round it out for people who want the trailer without owning the trailer.

If you would rather see the whole list side by side, the services overview lays out all six with prices, and each one has its own page with the detail underneath it.

Where we work

We are based in Beaverton, on the north shore of Lake Simcoe, which puts the Kawarthas, Durham Region, Simcoe County and Muskoka inside a comfortable radius and Northumberland and Quinte within an easy run east. We work across Ontario and into the rest of Canada for longer moves, but the bulk of what we do sits inside about two hours of the yard.

That geography is the reason the $400 local rate has 45 km attached to it. Inside that circle the truck is back the same day and there is no empty return leg to pay for. Outside it, the price is worked out per kilometre or per job, whichever is fairer for that trip, and every one way move has an empty leg attached to it whether anyone likes it or not. On a 300 kilometre delivery you are paying for something in the region of 600 kilometres of truck.

Ten of those areas have a page of their own, written around the roads, the parks and the seasonal load restrictions that actually apply there rather than a template with the town name swapped in. If your town is not on a pill above, it is almost certainly still covered, and the service areas page lists everything in one place.

What it costs

Here is the whole published price list in one place. These are the same numbers that appear on each service page, and they are starting prices rather than a quote, because no two sites are the same.

Four things move a transport price: distance, weight, how hard the two ends are to get into, and whether the load needs a permit. Distance is the obvious one and it is the one people over-weight in their heads. The other three are where the surprises live.

Access is usually the real cost. A 40 km move into a wide open field is easier than a 6 km move into a seasonal site with a hydro line at the entrance, a soft shoulder and a neighbour's boat parked in the turn. That is why we ask for the specific address at each end rather than the town. The last two kilometres at each end are where the difficulty lives, and a map does not show a soft shoulder or a low wire.

Permits come in when a unit is over legal size. In Ontario the legal width is 2.6 m, about 8 feet 6 inches, before a permit is needed, along with 4.15 m of height, 12.5 m of length for a single vehicle and 23 m for a combination. Most travel trailers and fifth wheels sit inside that. Most park models do not, because they are built wider on purpose. When a permit is needed we arrange it and pass the cost through rather than marking it up, and the same goes for tolls if the route uses a toll road, which we ask about before we use it.

The full RV transport cost guide for Ontario goes through all of this properly, including the fuel arithmetic on the empty return leg, the toll charts, and the things that quietly add a half day to a job. If you want a number for your specific move rather than a range, the fastest route is still to send us the two addresses.

How a job actually runs

Most people have never booked a trailer move before and are not sure what they are supposed to have ready. This is the whole sequence, start to finish.

1. You tell us what you have and where it is going

Make, model and rough length, and the specific address at each end. If you know the weight, tell us. If you do not, the sticker inside a cabinet door or on the frame near the hitch usually has it. Photos help more than descriptions, especially of the driveway and the entrance to the site.

2. We quote it, free, with the extras spelled out

You get a price, per kilometre or per job, whichever is fairer for that trip, with anything extra written down rather than mentioned later. If the job needs a permit, we quote that separately so you can see what is ours and what is the province's.

3. We book it, normally 24 to 48 hours out

That is the usual notice. We do take same-day and emergency work when we can, so if something has gone sideways call anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we can get there. No deposit is required to hold the date.

4. You prep the unit, or we talk you through it

Tanks emptied, propane off and disconnected, everything inside secured, awnings in, jacks up, tires checked. It is not complicated but it is easy to forget one thing, so there is a full guide to preparing your RV for transport with the whole list in order.

5. We haul it

Our own one ton dually and our own 30 foot gooseneck, under Ontario CVOR 204-617-206, with $2,000,000 in liability coverage, $150,000 in cargo coverage and $150,000 in non-owned trailer coverage behind it. Ask for proof of insurance any time and we will send it over.

6. We set it, level it and block it

If levelling is part of the job, this is where it happens, and it is the part that decides whether the unit is still sitting right in October. Then you pay, once, for work that is finished.

What we haul, and what the limits are

The honest ceiling is 30,000 lb. Above that you want a different company with different equipment, and we will say so rather than take the job and find out on the day. Below it, this is the range.

• Travel trailers. Bumper pull, any length we can legally tow. The most common job we do, and usually the simplest.
• Fifth wheels. Hauled on the gooseneck. Heavier and taller, so height clearance at the site matters more than people expect, particularly under trees on a seasonal lot.
• Park models. Their own chassis and axles, up to 50 square metres of floor area including any loft, which works out to 538 square feet. Usually over legal width, so usually a permit job.
• Toy haulers. Same as a trailer or fifth wheel to move, but the weight distribution is different when the garage is loaded, so tell us what is in the back.
• Boats and gooseneck trailers. On their own trailer, same weight ceiling.
• Single wide mobile homes. A different animal to a park model and covered on the park model and mobile home page.

The park model and mobile home distinction is worth understanding before you book anything, because it changes the permits and it changes the price. A park model trailer is built to the CSA Z241 series standard and stays on its own chassis with a hitch and axles. A mobile home is built to the CSA Z240 MH series standard and is a different class of building entirely. They look similar parked side by side. They are not the same thing to move, and a municipality will not treat them the same way either.

If your unit is over 2.6 m wide, which most park models are, the move needs an oversize permit from the Ministry of Transportation. We arrange it. You do not need to learn the process, but if you want to read it yourself, the province publishes a guide to oversize and overweight vehicles and loads and an oversize and overweight permit page.

Levelling, blocking and winter storage

These two get grouped together because they are the bookends of a season. One puts the unit right when it arrives, the other keeps it somewhere sensible when the season ends.

Levelling and blocking

Setting a unit level and properly supported once it is where it needs to be. Flat rate from $799 locally, materials supplied, and it carries our 30 day workmanship guarantee. Flat rate means a price rather than a meter running while somebody works.

We re-level existing setups whether we moved them or not, which is a large share of the levelling work we do. A trailer that was set on soft ground two springs ago has almost certainly moved since, and the owner usually notices because a door started sticking rather than because they checked with a level. If a unit has been sitting through a couple of Ontario freeze and thaw cycles, it is worth having somebody look at it before something structural takes the strain.

Outdoor winter storage

Outdoor seasonal storage on a fenced property, $85 to $125 a month depending on size. We can tow it in at the end of the season and back out in spring, so the unit gets handled by people who move trailers for a living rather than by you and a borrowed truck on the one dry Saturday in November.

Before it goes into storage it needs to be winterised properly, and that is the part people rush. There is a full RV winter storage checklist for Ontario that walks through the water system, the batteries, the tires, the roof and the pest problem nobody thinks about until March.

Insurance, CVOR and what we guarantee

This is the section most transport companies keep vague. We would rather write it down.

Ask us for proof of insurance any time and we will send it over. A Commercial Vehicle Operator's Registration certificate is not optional decoration either, it is what the province requires to operate commercial vehicles of this class, and you can read what one is on the province's page for getting a Commercial Vehicle Operator's Registration certificate.

The guarantee itself, in the plainest words we can put it in: if a unit we set up shifts or moves because of our workmanship, we come back and redo the job at no charge. Weather and ground conditions are outside that, and we say so up front.

We are deliberate about that second sentence. Ontario ground heaves, washes out, freezes and thaws, and none of that is workmanship. If a block sinks because the spring runoff took the gravel out from under it, that is the ground, not the setup, and pretending otherwise would mean quoting everybody higher to cover it. What we do instead is tell you before we start if we think a site is going to give you trouble, and then stand behind the part that is ours.

In roughly the last five years we have moved something in the region of 1,800 trailers. Every one of them belonged to somebody who cared about it.

The Ontario year, and why timing changes the price

RV work in this province is not evenly spread across twelve months. Understanding the shape of the year tells you when to book and when the calendar is going to fight you.

Spring, and the half load problem

Spring is the single most constrained window we work in, and it has nothing to do with how busy we are. Half loads, also called reduced load or spring weight restrictions, are seasonal limits municipalities put on their roads while the frost is coming out of the ground. Each road authority sets its own window by by-law, which is why neighbouring municipalities can be on completely different dates, and why a route that is legal on one side of a boundary is not on the other.

Most windows sit somewhere in the March to early May range, and most are explicitly weather dependent, which means the published dates are a plan rather than a promise. Anything landing between March 1 and April 30 gets its route checked against every restriction regime it crosses before we confirm it. The province publishes provincial highway restrictions through Ontario 511, and the municipal ones live with each municipality. Our ten service area pages carry the local detail for the places we work most.

Summer, the season everything happens in

Deliveries to seasonal sites, moves between parks, repositioning within a park, and the bulk of the levelling work. If you want a specific week in July or August, ask early. The 24 to 48 hour notice we quote is a normal working minimum, not a guarantee that any given Saturday in peak season is open.

Fall, the pull out

The busiest concentrated stretch of the year. Everybody wants their unit off a seasonal site and into storage in roughly the same three weeks, usually once the water gets shut off at the park. This is where booking ahead saves the most money and the most aggravation, because the alternative is trying to find a truck in the same week as everyone else in the county.

Winter, and why it is not a dead season

Units still move in winter. Frozen ground is in some ways easier to work on than spring mud, and there are no load restrictions in January. What changes is that the site has to be accessible, snow has to be cleared, and a unit sitting under a heavy snow load needs looking at before it gets jacked. We work Monday to Saturday, 7:00am to 7:00pm year round, Sunday closed and by appointment only.

Who we work with

Roughly three kinds of customer, and the job looks different for each.

Private owners

Most of our work. Somebody bought a trailer, or sold one, or is moving it between a seasonal site and home, or wants it levelled properly because the last setup was done in a hurry. This is the group that benefits most from asking questions before booking, and we would much rather spend ten minutes on the phone than turn up to a surprise.

Dealers and dealerships

Delivery on the hitch, lot to customer, lot to lot, or from an auction. Dealers care about two things: that the unit arrives when it was promised, and that it arrives in the condition it left in. Both of those are easier to guarantee when the same operator does the whole job.

Parks, campgrounds and property owners

Repositioning within a park, seasonal in and out, clearing a site, moving a deck or a shed so a unit can get in. Park work is its own skill, because the constraint is almost never the trailer, it is the tree, the hydro line, the septic bed, the corner and the neighbour's setup two metres away. If you manage a property and you have a unit that has to move without anything else on the site getting touched, that is normal work for us.

If you are thinking of towing it yourself

Sometimes that is the right answer and we will tell you so. It is worth knowing where the lines are before you decide.

A full class G licence in Ontario lets you tow a trailer up to 4,600 kg. Above that you are into a different licence class, and the answer is not that you probably will not get caught, it is that your insurance follows your licence. Trailers over 1,360 kg are required to have their own braking system. A trailer also needs to be registered with its own plate and permit, which cost $72 at ServiceOntario when we last checked the province's register a trailer page.

The rest of the rules are laid out in the towing chapter of the Official MTO Driver's Handbook and, for RVs specifically, the province's page on driving a recreational vehicle. The underlying law is the Highway Traffic Act.

Where self towing usually goes wrong is not on the highway. It is the last two hundred metres, backing a 30 foot trailer between two trees on a wet seasonal site with an audience. That is the part we do every day, and it is the part that costs money when it goes wrong.

Guides and area pages

Three guides cover the questions that come up before anybody picks up the phone, written from the jobs we actually do rather than from a keyword list.

• How to prepare your RV for transport. The full pre-move checklist, in order, including the things that are easy to forget and expensive to forget.
• RV transport cost in Ontario. What actually drives a price, with the fuel arithmetic on empty return legs, permits, tolls and the half load season.
• RV winter storage checklist for Ontario. Water system, batteries, tires, roof and pests, for a province that goes properly cold.

Ten areas have their own page, each written around the roads, parks and restrictions that apply there.

• RV transport in Peterborough, covering Peterborough, Keene, Buckhorn, Apsley.
• RV transport in Kawartha Lakes, covering Kawartha Lakes, Lindsay, Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls.
• RV transport in Oshawa and Durham Region, covering Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville.
• RV transport in Port Perry and Scugog, covering Scugog, Port Perry.
• RV transport in Georgina and Sutton, covering Georgina, Sutton.
• RV transport in Barrie, covering Barrie.
• RV transport in Muskoka, covering Bracebridge, Gravenhurst.
• RV transport in Collingwood and Wasaga Beach, covering Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Midland, Georgian Bay.
• RV transport in Cobourg and Port Hope, covering Cobourg, Port Hope, Brighton.
• RV transport in Belleville and Quinte West, covering Belleville, Quinte West, Trenton, Madoc.

All of them, plus every town we serve, are listed on the service areas page.

Getting started

Have three things ready and the quote takes about a minute: what the unit is, the specific address at each end, and roughly when you want it done. If you have a photo of the driveway or the site entrance, send that too, because it answers more questions than a paragraph will.

We are a family run business working out of Beaverton, Ontario, and we have been doing this since 2020. Hours are Monday to Saturday, 7:00am to 7:00pm, Sunday closed and by appointment only. There is no deposit to book, quotes are free, and you pay when the job is finished by cash, credit card, debit or e-transfer.

Call (647) 961-9257, email transport@kawartharvrentals.ca, or use the contact form. If you want to see the work first, there are videos of real jobs on the videos page, and more about how we got here on the about page. Everything we get asked most often is answered on the FAQ.