What happens if the excavator's quote in Rothesay leaves out trucking?

What a Missing Trucking Line Means for Your Rothesay Quote

If trucking is not written into the quote, the cost of moving spoil off your lot may not be included, and that gap can be significant. Published price guides read in September 2026 show machine time for a standard excavator with operator running $150 to $250 per hour, and a mini at $65 to $150 per hour, but those figures cover the machine on site. Hauling excavated material away is a separate cost, and few published New Brunswick prices exist for haul-away per load. The honest answer is that trucking distance, dump fees and the number of loads are all variables the quote needs to name.

What drives trucking cost on a Rothesay job includes how much material comes out of the ground, where the nearest accepted disposal site is, how many truck runs that requires, and whether any of the spoil can be stockpiled on the lot for backfill later. Rock adds to this: if the machine hits rock and a hydraulic breaker is needed, the breaker runs $200 to $300 per hour on top of excavator time. A quote that is silent on rock is a second gap worth closing before you sign.

Before any machine arrives in Rothesay, locates are required. Info-Excavation, reached through Click Before You Dig, needs three working days notice; that locate is valid until the end date written on the request. NB Power runs its own separate underground locate service and asks for at least five business days notice; that locate is valid for 60 days from the date on the locate form and covers only NB Power-owned lines. Private lines, including wiring to a garage, shed or pool that a past owner ran, are yours to find and mark.

The Town of Rothesay issues building and development permits and its building inspector enforces the National Building Code. Under Regulation 2021-2, if this is a new foundation or addition, an inspection of the footings and foundations must happen before any backfilling begins; ask the Town of Rothesay how to book it. Backfilling before that inspection is a compliance problem, not a scheduling shortcut. For anything near a stream, lake or wetland, the province's Watercourse and Wetland Alteration permit applies to any ground disturbance within 30 metres of the water, measured horizontally from the top of the bank.

When you go back to the excavator, ask for a revised quote that lists machine hours, trucking and disposal separately, states how rock will be priced if it is encountered, confirms which material stays on site for backfill and which leaves, and specifies who is responsible for cleanup. Ask for a WorkSafeNB clearance certificate before work starts. Under the Construction Remedies Act, hold back 10% of the contract price for 60 days after substantial performance.

Before you sign, ask the excavator directly who is responsible for marking private lines on your lot, and what the plan is if the machine hits something that was not on any locate.