Dump trucks
in Dunnville

What gets hauled in Dunnville

Haldimand County's 2026 capital budget is $46 million, with $22.6 million of it for roads, and several Dunnville jobs sit in it. Jim Gregory Drive is being built for $1.8 million to service the new fire and paramedic base and future affordable housing near the arena. The fire station and paramedic base are in design for $1.1 million, and the parks and facilities maintenance workshop is being replaced for $4 million. The County's water and wastewater program for 2026 includes work from the Dunnville and Cayuga master servicing plans.

Road work runs May to October 2026. Hot-mix paving covers Port Maitland Road from Rainham Road to Lighthouse Drive and Dover Street from Port Maitland Road to Kings Row, and rural resurfacing covers Mumby Road, King Road and Lakeshore Road from the Hald-Dunn Townline Road to Haldimand Road 49. Other jobs follow each year's program, so this page does not list them. Dispatch knows what is running this season.

Where the material comes from, and where it goes

Stone is local. A licensed quarry on Haldimand Road 48 in Dunnville is permitted up to 400,000 tonnes a year, and a larger one at Cayuga, up Highway 3, is permitted up to 1,452,000 tonnes a year. A Dunnville job is rarely far from stone.

The County has one waste depot, the Canborough Waste Management Facility on James Road in Dunnville, open Monday to Friday 8am to 4:15pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm. It takes construction and demolition material at a tipping fee of $152 a tonne in 2026, with a $23 minimum, and it stops taking cash on December 1, 2026. Its list does not include soil, fill or concrete, and the County's disposal guide sends soil, concrete and asphalt to a private pit in Simcoe in Norfolk County, so clean fill needs a reuse site arranged first.

Under Ontario's excess soil regulation (O. Reg. 406/19) each load of excess soil carries a hauling record, and from January 1, 2027, clean excess soil can no longer go to landfill. In Dunnville that pushes a soil job toward a named reuse site from the start.

Rules that change a Dunnville job

County rules, not Regional ones. Dunnville is not in the Niagara Region, so the Region's load table and by-laws stop at the Hald-Dunn Townline Road. Haldimand's Heavy Truck By-law (2036-19) applies from there on: a commercial vehicle over 5 tonnes registered gross weight stays on a designated truck route unless an exemption applies, and the exemptions include trucks delivering or providing goods or services. Fines run up to $10,000 for a first conviction and up to $50,000 for a corporation.

Spring reduced loads. From March 1 to April 30 the County limits trucks to five tonnes per axle on Haldimand Roads 3, 7, 8, 49, 50, 53, 62, 70 and 74 and on Riverside Drive. Dispatch plans the truck count around them.

Fill permits. Under the County's Site Alteration By-law (1664-16) a property needs a permit once it takes more than 50 cubic metres of fill in a calendar year, about five dump truck loads. Between 50 and 250 cubic metres takes a road damage deposit, and more than 250 takes a site alteration agreement. When the fill comes from outside Haldimand, the application also asks for its source history, a sampling plan, the haul route, daily truck volumes and operating hours. The 2026 permit fee is $271, with a $2,500 security deposit.

One bridge. Highway 3 crosses the Grand River at Dunnville on the only bridge between Cayuga and Lake Erie, so a load bound for the Port Maitland side crosses it.

Trucks on Dunnville sites

A Dunnville tri-axle typically carries 20 to 22 metric tonnes. Screened grindings and aggregates are delivered by the truckload the same way.

Every truck on a Dunnville job is paid the same rate, whoever owns it.

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Questions people ask

Do spring load limits affect Dunnville jobs?

Yes, under Haldimand County's own rules rather than the Niagara Region's. From March 1 to April 30 the County limits trucks to five tonnes per axle on Haldimand Roads 3, 7, 8, 49, 50, 53, 62, 70 and 74 and on Riverside Drive. Dispatch plans the truck count around it.

Do trucks have to stay on truck routes in Haldimand County?

Haldimand's Heavy Truck By-law keeps commercial vehicles over 5 tonnes registered gross weight on designated truck routes, with exemptions that include trucks delivering or providing goods or services. Dispatch routes to the designated routes when a site address is given.

How do I book trucks for a Dunnville site?

Call dispatch at (905) 988-5454 with the site, the start date, how many trucks and the material. Dispatch runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the request form on the Companies page reaches the same desk.