Quick Answer: Oilfield camp container accommodation in Canada is built from CSA Z240-converted 20ft and 40ft steel containers, assembled into 30-bed to 100-bed modules with a dry kitchen, wet camp, ablutions, recreation space and a diesel genset. Van Blanc is a Brantford, Ontario yard that supplies the CSC-plated shells; the camp builder handles the on-site conversion work. Real Brantford yards, real reviews (4.9 / 124+), real 1-3 day delivery across Ontario, with a third-party flatbed carrier handling any westbound haul. Family-operated since 1995.
In This Guide
- Why do containers win in oilfield camp builds?
- What goes into a 30 to 50 bed oilfield camp?
- CSA Z240 or CSA Z241: which standard applies?
- How do shells get from an Ontario yard to an Alberta site?
- Where does the budget go in a turnkey camp build?
- Which shell grade suits each camp module?
- How do oilfield camps differ from mining camps?
- How does an oilfield camp get power, water, and sewer?
- How do worker rotations shape camp occupancy?
- What is Van Blanc’s role in the camp supply chain?
- Frequently asked questions
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Why Do Containers Win in Oilfield Camp Builds?
Drive past any active drilling program in the Bakken, the Lloydminster heavy-oil corridor, or the Cold Lake SAGD operations and you will see the same pattern: rows of converted shipping containers stacked two storeys high, branded with the camp operator’s flag, ringed by diesel gensets and water bladders. The steel shell that started its life moving Toyota parts from Yokohama to Vancouver ends its career housing a directional driller on a 14-on, 14-off rotation in northeastern Alberta. That second life is why supplying shells for modular worker-accommodation projects is now one of the busiest non-storage lanes leaving our Brantford yard.
An oilfield camp is a cluster of converted shipping containers that house a rotational crew on a remote drilling, SAGD, or plant-turnaround site. Builders convert CSA Z240 sleeper, ablution, kitchen, and genset modules from 20ft and 40ft steel shells, then stack them to shrink the pad footprint. Van Blanc supplies the Ontario shells; the builder does the conversion.
Paul LeBlanc, owner: “We are not the people who build the camp. We are the people who put a clean, CSC-plated shell on the camp builder’s flatbed, photographed corner to corner, so their framers never get a surprise once they are inside it. I have spent 19 years in containers and 40 in Asian trade. The one thing that has never changed is that a bad shell ruins a good build, so we catch it in Brantford, not in Alberta.”
Oilfield camps used to mean ATCO-style hard-sided trailers towed on skids or pulled by lowboy. Trailers still dominate the wellsite-pad market, where one or two units sit next to the rig for a six-week drilling cycle. But every camp over about 30 beds has shifted to container-based architecture in the last twelve years. The reason is not exotic. Containers stack, trailers do not. A 50-bed camp on trailers needs an acre of cleared pad. The same bed count in stacked containers needs a third of that. In permafrost-adjacent ground, in muskeg, in the river-valley benches above the heavy-oil plays, that footprint difference decides whether the camp can be built at all.
Containers also handle the freight piece better than panelised modular. A 40ft High Cube full of bunks, ablutions and casework loads on a flatbed at our Brantford yard, drives 3,200 kilometres to a Suncor or Cenovus turnoff, and arrives at the pad ready to set on cribbing within four hours of the crane showing up. Panelised modular has to be assembled on site, which means a 14-day site-build window in country where the weather closes for half the year. The container is its own crate, its own structure, its own delivery vehicle.
The split: container shell supplier vs camp builder
VBinC does not build finished camps. We supply the steel shells, CSC-plated and inspection-photographed, to the Canadian camp builders that do the conversion work. Civeo, Black Diamond Lodging, ATCO Structures, Karmod, Apec Modular and Pinion Contracting are the names you see on most working oil-sands camps. Our boxes ride out of Brantford as raw material into their conversion shops in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where they become sleeper units, dry kitchens, wet camps, ablutions and genset enclosures. The CSC plate, the wall-corner integrity, the floor condition: that is our piece. The plumbing, the casework, the CSA labelling: that is theirs.
What Goes Into a 30 to 50 Bed Oilfield Camp?
A camp is not one building. It is a constellation of converted containers organised around a central core. The breakdown for a working 50-bed mid-size camp on a Lloydminster contractor pad typically looks like this:
| Module | Unit type | Count | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleeper | 40ft HC, 2 bunks per unit (single occupancy) | 25 | 50 worker beds |
| Ablutions | 40ft HC, 4 showers / 4 toilets / 4 sinks | 4 | Hygiene block (one per 12-15 beds) |
| Dry kitchen | 40ft HC fitted with prep counter, walk-in cooler interface | 1 | Cold prep, dish stores |
| Wet kitchen | 40ft HC fitted with range, fryer, grease trap, hood | 1 | Hot service |
| Dining / recreation | 40ft HC opened with bridging | 2-3 | Mess hall, lounge, TV, satellite comms |
| Laundry | 20ft, washer/dryer banks | 1 | Workwear turnaround |
| Genset enclosure | 20ft, insulated, ventilated | 1-2 | Diesel generator housing |
| Office / first-aid | 20ft, fitted desk and OFA station | 1 | Camp manager, safety |
The math comes out to roughly 35 to 38 containers for a 50-bed turnkey camp. Most of those are 40ft High Cubes because the extra foot of interior headroom matters once you frame in a ceiling, run conduit, drop in insulation, and add a floor build-up. A standard 8’6″ container loses too much daylight headroom once the conversion is done, which is exactly why the extra foot of high-cube headroom changes the math on a sleeper conversion. The 9’6″ HC keeps the finished ceiling above 7 feet.
A 30-bed camp scales down to roughly 22 to 25 containers using the same component logic. A 100-bed camp scales up to 70-plus, and at that point the camp builder usually stacks the sleepers two high to keep the pad footprint tight, which means we ship more one-trip stock because the structural twist-lock corners and the floor specifications have to be tighter on the lower units carrying the load.
The Cenovus-style 14/14 rotation camp
Cenovus Sunrise and similar SAGD operations run a 14-on, 14-off rotation. The camp is built to bed every worker on shift, not every worker on payroll. A 200-worker contract typically buys a 100-bed camp, because half the headcount is at home in the off-rotation. That doubling effect is why bed counts on oilfield contracts always sound smaller than the project headcount: the camp serves shift, not roster.
CSA Z240 or CSA Z241: Which Standard Applies to Camp Modules?
Camp builders building for oilfield clients are working to CSA Z240 MH (manufactured housing for permanent and full-time placement) or CSA A277 (factory-built buildings for commercial occupancy). They are not working to Z241, which is the seasonal park-model RV standard. The distinction matters because the oilfield client’s procurement team writes Z240 or A277 into the spec sheet, and the camp builder has to be able to certify the build to that standard.
What this means for the shell we ship: the container itself does not carry a CSA label. The CSA labelling happens at the camp-builder’s conversion shop after the unit has been gutted, insulated, fitted with structural openings, wired, plumbed, and finished. Our job is to deliver a shell whose corner posts, floor frame, side rails and roof panels meet the structural baseline the camp builder needs to build to Z240 on top of. A shell with frame damage, floor rot or compromised corner posts cannot be Z240-certified no matter how much money the builder spends on the conversion. That is why our pre-shipment inspection on oilfield-bound units is photographic, every corner, every floor section, every door header.
The cost of a bad shell on a camp build
A 40ft HC shell at our Brantford yard is a small fraction of the final converted camp module. The conversion (insulation, framing, plumbing, electrical, casework, labour, CSA certification, freight to Alberta, set on pad) is where the rest of the dollars go. A camp builder cannot absorb a bad shell. If the unit they receive from Brantford has a structural problem they did not catch until the framers were inside it, the whole conversion stops and the unit gets scrapped or downgraded to a non-occupancy use like dry storage. We catch that at our yard, not theirs.
How Do Shells Get From an Ontario Yard to an Alberta Site?
Brantford to Fort McMurray is roughly 3,800 kilometres by road, four to six days on a flatbed depending on weather, hours-of-service, and the Saskatchewan-Alberta border weigh-station load. Brantford to Lloydminster runs about 2,900 kilometres, three to five days. Brantford to Estevan (heart of the Saskatchewan Bakken) is closer to 2,500 kilometres, three to four days. Third-party flatbed step-deck carriers run those westbound loads for the camp builders routinely, with our shells loading out of Brantford, but the freight economics push camp builders to buy in pallet quantity, not in onesies.
The pattern most working camp builders use is this: they order eight to twelve 40ft HC shells at once, we hold them at our Brantford yard while their logistics partner consolidates a westbound run, and the load goes out in two or three multi-container moves over a one-week window. The per-unit freight on a consolidated run drops to a fraction of a single-unit charter. Camp builders that try to order shells one at a time pay double or triple per unit on freight, and we tell them so up front because the alternative is they buy from a Western Canadian yard that is closer to their conversion shop. Honesty about freight is the only way the Ontario-to-Alberta supply chain stays competitive.
One operational reality: westbound flatbed capacity is not a constant. In the spring drilling ramp-up, capacity tightens. In the late-fall freeze-up before winter roads open in the oil sands, capacity tightens again. We schedule oilfield-camp shells around those tight windows when we can, and we tell the camp builder six weeks ahead when the window is closing so they can either pull forward their order or hold for two to three weeks. That calendar awareness is part of how we supply resource clients, because the alternative is a builder paying spot-market rates that wipe out their margin on the contract.
Where Does the Budget Go in a Turnkey Camp Build?
Camp builders quote turnkey converted modules, not container shells. A turnkey converted 40ft HC sleeper module delivered to an Alberta pad, fully CSA-certified, electrified, plumbed and ready to set, carries a quote that moves with the finish level and the camp builder. The all-in turnkey number scales with bed count: a 30-bed camp sits at the low end of the range, a 50-bed camp lands well above it, and a 100-bed camp pushes higher again, because every added bed multiplies the conversion, freight, pad-prep and commissioning work behind it.
The container shell is a small slice of that total. The conversion cost (insulation, framing, electrical, plumbing, casework, labour, CSA certification) is where most of the dollars live. Freight from the conversion shop to the pad is a meaningful slice. Pad prep, cribbing, electrical hookup, sewer hookup, water hookup and genset commissioning add another layer that the camp builder coordinates with the oilfield operator’s site team.
| Cost component | Approximate share of turnkey camp cost |
|---|---|
| Container shells (our piece) | 5-9% |
| Conversion labour and materials | 45-55% |
| CSA certification and engineering | 3-6% |
| Freight (shop to site) | 6-10% |
| Pad prep, cribbing, hookups | 10-15% |
| Camp commissioning, project mgmt | 8-12% |
| Camp builder margin | 10-15% |
What that table tells the procurement team at a Cenovus or CNRL contractor: the way to control camp cost is to control conversion efficiency and freight, not to grind the shell supplier. The shell is too small a slice of the total to matter. The same procurement team will sometimes ask us about volume pricing on shells, and we will give them the honest answer: a 5% discount on a 7% line item moves the project budget by 0.35%. That is rounding error on a multi-million-dollar camp. Spend the negotiating energy on the 50% that is conversion labour, not the 7% that is shells.
Which Shell Grade Suits Each Camp Module?
Container grades matter on an oilfield-camp build, but not in the way most buyers expect. The intuitive assumption is that oilfield work means hard service, so the camp builder should buy one-trip premium stock for everything. The actual practice is more mixed.
Lower-stack sleeper units that carry the load of a second-storey unit above them: those want one-trip or near-one-trip shells with documented floor and frame condition. The structural twist-locks have to engage cleanly, and the corner-post integrity has to be uncompromised. We supply fresh one-trip 40ft HC stock straight off its single ocean voyage for these slots, with the pre-shipment photograph file going to the camp builder’s QA team.
Upper-stack units carrying no load above them, plus ablutions, dry kitchen, dry storage, office and laundry: those can run on cargo-worthy (CW) shells, and it is worth understanding how cargo-worthy and wind-and-watertight grades actually differ before a builder commits a unit to a module. The cosmetic wear gets stripped off in the conversion shop anyway, because every external panel gets sandblasted, primed and repainted in the camp builder’s brand colours. The structural baseline matters; the surface rust does not.
Wind-and-watertight (WWT) shells get used occasionally for dry-storage modules, lay-down containers around the pad perimeter, and non-occupancy ancillary functions. They do not work for sleeper or wet-service modules because the conversion shop cannot warranty the build to Z240 on a shell that does not pass the structural baseline.
The four-grade taxonomy applied to camp builds
One-trip: lower-stack sleepers, dining-hall bridging units, wet-kitchen module (because of the equipment load and the steam load), upper-management single-occupancy quarters. Cargo-worthy: upper-stack sleepers, ablutions, dry-kitchen, recreation modules, office, laundry. Wind-and-watertight: dry storage, lay-down, ancillary. As-is: not used in oilfield-camp work. The structural baseline for Z240 certification rules As-is out of the supply chain, no matter how cheap the unit is.
How Do Oilfield Camps Differ From Mining Camps?
Mining and oilfield camps share a lot of architecture but diverge on three fronts: scale, fire egress, and freight access. A working mine in northern Ontario or Quebec runs camps of 200 to 800 beds because the workforce on site is permanent. An oilfield camp running a drilling program is 30 to 100 beds because the workforce is shift-based and rotational. The mining-camp module pattern is one giant integrated complex with corridors. The oilfield-camp pattern is a constellation of separate modules connected by walkways or short skywalk bridges.
Fire egress is the other big divergence. Mining-camp corridors get treated as occupied space and have to clear National Building Code corridor-egress requirements. Oilfield-camp modules are individually occupied and connect via outdoor walkways, which means each module is its own egress zone with its own exterior doors. Two exterior doors on opposite ends of every sleeper, framed and weather-sealed, is the baseline.
Freight access is the third one. A mining camp 200 kilometres up a logging road faces a narrower freight window than an oilfield camp on a gravel access road off a graded provincial highway. The oilfield-camp container can usually arrive on a standard step-deck. The mining-camp container often has to transfer to a B-train, sometimes to a tracked carrier for the last few kilometres. We have not seen a tracked-carrier last mile on an oilfield delivery in two decades. The roads, even the rough ones, take a flatbed.
The other place oilfield and mining diverge: regulatory regime. Oilfield camps in Alberta operate under the Alberta Energy Regulator’s Directive 79 (camp standards) and the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code. Mining camps operate under Ontario Regulation 854 (mines and mining plants) or the provincial equivalent in Quebec, BC, etc. The camp builder is responsible for those overlays; the shell supplier (us) is not. But knowing which regime applies tells you why oilfield procurement specs read differently from mining procurement specs even when the physical camp looks similar.
How Does an Oilfield Camp Get Power, Water, and Sewer?
An oilfield camp is its own utility. Grid power does not reach most of these locations. A 50-bed camp typically runs on two parallel diesel gensets in the 250 kW to 400 kW range, depending on the equipment load. One genset runs at any given time; the second is hot-standby for failover and load balancing during peak meal-service hours when the wet kitchen pulls heavy. The genset enclosure is a 20ft container fitted with insulation, sound attenuation, fuel-tank ventilation, exhaust routing and remote monitoring.
Water comes in by tanker truck, stored in heated above-ground bladders typically 10,000 to 20,000 gallons depending on camp size, and gets pumped into the camp’s internal plumbing. Greywater and sewage go to lined holding tanks that get pumped out on a weekly or bi-weekly cadence by septic contractors. The sewage truck routing is one of the operational realities of oilfield camp logistics: someone has to drive the pump-out truck on a regular schedule, in winter, on gravel.
Heating in the sleepers and common areas runs off the genset power, with electric baseboards or in-floor radiant. Some camps have a small propane feed for the wet kitchen range and fryer, supplied by tanker as needed. The fuel logistics (diesel for gensets, propane for kitchen, water in, sewage out) is its own line item on the camp operating budget, and it never stops. A 50-bed camp consumes a tanker of diesel every 10 to 14 days under steady operation.
Why this matters to a Brantford yard
We are not setting gensets or running sewer trucks in northern Alberta. But the shell we ship has to be ready for the conversion shop to integrate every one of those systems. The framing penetrations for conduit, the floor channels for wet-side plumbing, the wall openings for HVAC, the ventilation pre-cuts for the genset enclosure: those are dimensioned by the camp builder, but they have to land on a shell with structural integrity in the right places. Christian and Paul both inspect oilfield-bound stock with that downstream knowledge in mind. A shell that goes to a sleeper conversion is a different inspection than a shell going to a dry-storage conversion.
How Do Worker Rotations Shape Camp Occupancy?
Most Canadian oilfield camps run on rotational schedules that match the work the camp serves. Drilling crews on active rigs run 14-on, 14-off. Some run 21-on, 7-off. Some run 7-on, 7-off. Plant-turnaround and shutdown work runs intense compressed schedules like 28-on, 14-off because the turnaround clock is fixed and the crew has to grind. Maintenance and operations crews on SAGD pads run more conventional 14-on, 14-off or 10-on, 4-off rotations.
The camp is sized to shift, not headcount, as discussed earlier. The other planning dimension is gender split and management quarters. Modern Canadian oilfield camps build separate ablution blocks for female crew members and reserve a small percentage (typically 5-10% of total bed count) as single-occupancy management quarters. That changes the module mix on the camp build. A 50-bed camp with a 90/10 line-worker to management split needs 23 double-occupancy sleeper modules (46 line workers) plus 4 single-occupancy management modules (4 managers). That is 27 sleeper containers instead of 25, plus the gender-split ablution overhead.
Procurement teams sometimes ask camp builders to spec the rotation in advance to lock the module count. Others build flexibility into the camp so the same physical infrastructure can serve a 14/14 contract one year and a 21/7 contract the next. The flexibility costs more in initial build but pays back over a multi-year camp lifespan. The shell we supply is the same shell regardless of which rotation the camp will serve. Our job ends when the converted module gets set on its cribbing. The rotation logistics are downstream of us.
Christian LeBlanc, second-generation operator: “Most of our oilfield-camp shells are gone the day the camp builder books them. Spring drilling ramp-up clears our High Cube one-trip inventory inside three weeks. We hold capacity for the camp builders we have shipped to for years, because if they cannot get shells they cannot land their contract, and the contract is what keeps 50 to 200 workers fed in the Bakken or the oil sands. We learned that pattern from watching it for two decades.”
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What Is Van Blanc’s Role in the Camp Supply Chain?
Three things separate the way Van Blanc handles oilfield-camp work from the way a generic yard does it.
First, photographic pre-shipment inspection. Every container leaving our yard for an oilfield-camp builder gets photographed from all four sides, with separate close-ups of the floor frame, the door header, the lock rods, the corner posts and any visible repair patches. The photos go to the camp builder’s QA team before the unit ships. If they want changes (different shell, different grade, different floor condition), we resolve that in our yard, not theirs. Their conversion shop is not in the business of triaging our shells.
Second, freight calendar awareness. We know when westbound flatbed capacity tightens because we have been booking carriers for westbound shell loads for years. We tell camp builders the calendar realities before they commit to a schedule, not after. If their procurement team is locked into a delivery window that conflicts with a known freight tightening, we say so up front.
Third, supply-chain honesty. There are weeks when our one-trip 40ft HC inventory does not have what a camp builder needs. In those weeks, we tell them, and sometimes we tell them to source from a Western Canadian yard that is closer to their conversion shop. The right answer for the camp builder is sometimes a yard that is not us. We say so because the alternative is they figure it out the hard way and stop calling us. The way we supply resource clients works because we tell the truth about what we can and cannot do, not because we pretend to handle everything ourselves.
What camp builders should send us when they call
Shell count by size (20ft / 40ft / 40ft HC), grade preference per unit (one-trip / CW / WWT), target delivery window, conversion shop address, contact for QA photo review. We come back inside 48 hours with availability, per-unit pricing, freight estimate to their shop, and any sequencing notes if the order has to split across two or more loads. The faster they get us those five inputs, the faster their procurement team can lock the camp build into their client’s project schedule.
Frequently asked questions
Does Van Blanc build finished oilfield camps?
No. We supply CSC-plated 20ft and 40ft shell containers to the Canadian camp builders that do the conversion work. Civeo, Black Diamond Lodging, ATCO Structures and similar firms turn our shells into finished camp modules. The shell is our piece; the build is theirs.
How many containers does a 50-bed oilfield camp use?
Roughly 35 to 38, depending on the module mix. That breaks down to about 25 sleeper containers (two beds each), 4 ablutions, 1 dry kitchen, 1 wet kitchen, 2-3 dining/recreation, 1 laundry, 1-2 genset enclosures, and 1 office/first-aid. Higher-end camps add more recreation and management single-occupancy modules.
What CSA standard applies to oilfield camp container modules?
CSA Z240 MH (manufactured housing for permanent or full-time placement) or CSA A277 (factory-built commercial buildings). The camp builder certifies the finished module to one of those standards. CSA Z241, the seasonal park-model RV standard, does not apply to oilfield-camp accommodation.
What does a turnkey 50-bed oilfield camp cost in Canada?
The all-in figure runs into the millions and scales with bed count, finish level and the camp builder you contract, covering converted modules, freight from the camp builder’s shop to the pad, pad prep, cribbing, hookups and commissioning. The container shells themselves are a 5-9% slice of that total. Conversion labour and materials dominate the budget.
How long does it take to build a 30 to 50 bed container camp?
Conversion-shop time for the modules runs 4 to 8 weeks once shells arrive. Pad prep and on-site set-down adds another 2 to 4 weeks depending on cribbing complexity and weather window. From shell order at our yard to commissioned camp on pad, plan for 12 to 16 weeks total under realistic freight and weather conditions.
Why ship oilfield-camp containers from Ontario instead of Western Canada?
You ship from where the inventory exists at the price and grade you need. Brantford has one-trip 40ft HC stock that Western yards sometimes do not, particularly during spring drilling ramp-up when local supply tightens. The freight cost is real, but on consolidated multi-container moves it falls below the price differential on shells. We tell camp builders honestly when a Western yard is the better answer for them.
Can the same camp serve both summer and winter operations?
Yes. CSA Z240-certified modules are designed for year-round occupancy in Canadian climate. The conversion shop fits insulation, double-glazed windows, frost-protected plumbing and HVAC to handle Alberta winter temperatures down to -40°C. The container shell itself is unaffected by temperature; the conversion details are where the cold-weather performance gets engineered.
What is the genset enclosure usually built from?
A 20ft container, insulated for sound attenuation, ventilated for combustion air, fuel-tank-isolated, and exhaust-routed through the roof. Two 20ft enclosures sit beside the camp running parallel gensets in the 250 to 400 kW range for a 50-bed camp, with one in service and one on hot-standby for load balancing and failover.
Are oilfield camps stackable two or three storeys high?
Two storeys yes, three storeys rare in working oilfield camps. Stacking demands one-trip lower units with documented twist-lock corner integrity and engineered floor specifications. Three-storey stacks appear more in mining-camp work where the bed count is much higher; oilfield camps usually run wider rather than taller on the same pad.
How do you ship 20 or 30 containers from Brantford to Alberta efficiently?
Consolidated multi-container moves. The camp builder’s logistics partner books westbound capacity for a one-week loading window, we load at our Brantford yard in sequence, and the order goes out as two or three multi-unit flatbed runs. Per-unit freight on consolidated moves drops well below the single-unit charter rate, which is what makes the Ontario-to-Alberta supply chain economical for camp builders.
Sources
- Canadian Standards Association. (2022). CSA Z240 MH Series: Manufactured Homes. CSA Group. csagroup.org
- Alberta Energy Regulator. (2024). Directive 079: Surface Development in Proximity to Abandoned Wells. Government of Alberta. aer.ca
- International Maritime Organization. (1972, amended). International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC). imo.org
- Civeo Corporation. (2025). Oil and Gas Workforce Housing and Accommodations. civeo.com
- Black Diamond Group. (2025). Workforce Lodging and Wellsite Accommodations. blackdiamondlodging.com
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We have been supplying shipping containers across Ontario since 1995, including the steel shells that camp builders serving Western Canada convert into oilfield accommodation. Our warehouse is at 90 Morton Avenue E in Brantford, and we deliver across Ontario on a cash-on-delivery basis. Shells bound for an Alberta or Saskatchewan conversion shop travel on a third-party flatbed carrier the builder arranges. No surprise fees, no chase-the-paperwork.
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Camp builders working on oilfield contracts in Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC, or anywhere else in Canada can call our Brantford yard to check shell availability and the westbound freight calendar. We answer honestly on what we have and what we do not.