Hundreds of dump truck drivers joined a convoy protest in the Lower Mainland on Friday morning to protest record-high diesel prices.
The convoy started in Surrey and Abbotsford around 8:30 a.m. and drove to Vancouver.
The war in Ukraine and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East are limiting global diesel supply, driving up prices worldwide.
On Friday morning, the cost of diesel in Vancouver is $2.84 per litre.
“Everybody is struggling right now,” Raginder Bhandu, a truck driver of 23 years, told Global News on Friday.
“The diesel price is going up; it’s $3 right now, so all the families are struggling. We work for free right now.”
He added that they will likely have to pass the cost on to customers, as many are independent owners and operators.
Bruce Banman, BC Conservative candidate for Abbotsford South, was at the rally and said he supports the truckers.
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“I’m here to tell David Eby a message that he should follow what Alberta did and reduce the fuel costs and the taxes,” he said.
“British Columbia has the highest fuel taxes in North America and if David Eby wants to run around and blame Trump for everything, really what he should do is lower the fuel costs because absolutely everything comes on a truck.”
Banman said these high fuel costs are only going to drive up costs for British Columbians.
“It makes no sense to have the highest fuel taxes in North America and blame Trump for all the problems we got when we could actually fix this problem right here at home.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he is considering temporarily banning diesel exports in an attempt to bring prices down in the United States, but experts say that may backfire and cost consumers more in the long term, including in Canada.
Banning export of the fuel would be expected to provide some short-term relief for American consumers while spiking prices worldwide.
Over the long-term, prices could stay higher for longer, experts warn.
“Diesel is the backbone of the economy for trains, for ships, for trucks, so many trucks around the world. We depend on it,” says Richard Masson, former CEO of the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission.
“If there is an upset in the market, and the diesel price is already really, really high, it will just further exacerbate the problem, but people need to keep their economies running so they’re going to have to continue to pay the price.”
Masson says he believes the U.S. banning the exports of diesel is unlikely, but if it were to happen, it would add significant pressure to an already disrupted global marketplace.
-with files from Ariel Rabinovitch
European Canadians
European Canadians should go back
September 27, 2026 at 9:00 am
“member when the white truckers protested because it hurt their feefees to wear a mask during a pandemic?”
It had nothing to do with masks.It was in response to heavy government overreach.
While you spineless wimps bowed to the governments control ,true Canadians stood up and rejected it.If it wasn’t for these people you brainwashed sheep would still be in your government mandated pens waiting for instructions on what other options your gloryholes can be used for.,Cowards.
For years they’ve been under cutting everyone and now listen to them. Go drive your truck on air. See how far that gets you.
White people = It’s only ok when we do it 🤣🤣
Get bent
Rag heads are wining about wages after creating their own nightmare and for everyone else.
You created the problem , now you whine about it? Serves you right..hope you morons become the next wave of homeless.
Stop whining about the cost of diesel and do something about it. Its quite clear these fuels are no longer the staus quo anymore. You ant to protest? Do it with your wallet! Buy an electric truck or a hydrogen truck and make your stand. I bought an electric car 3 years ago and I am never turning back!
member when the white truckers protested because it hurt their feefees to wear a mask during a pandemic?
Haha I’m so happy I’m not the only one who laughed at this picture! We’d Greece less problems if we didn’t allow so many into OUR country. Stay in your home country an quit trying to make us change for YOU.
They cut the rates let them suffer
Go home
Get a real truck license first
The photo lol. Couldn’t be such a better photo lmao. “Canadians”
$ 1.40 a liter today in India…. go there
You know absolutely nothing about the price of oil and gas.
“Some guy
September 26, 2026 at 3:45 pm
Canada only sets the tax rate. Call Petro Canada/esso/shell about the fuel costs. They set the prices. Not the government. Why do these morons keep demanding Carney fix it when he has nothing to do with it?”
Where’s the logic in burning diesel to protest diesel prices?
Canada only sets the tax rate. Call Petro Canada/esso/shell about the fuel costs. They set the prices. Not the government. Why do these morons keep demanding Carney fix it when he has nothing to do with it?
Another nonsense protest. They should be protesting trump, putin and netanyahu, the actual culprits.
Get used to these “accounting errors” with the NDP. We now have a massive deficit and taxpayer money that just seems to disappear. I can’t believe how blatant the corruption is in our province, worst of all is that so many people accept it and make excuses for it. I don’t see Canadians banding together to fight Trump, I see politicians and corporations taking advantage of a bad situation to make more money off of people who are already struggling.
Pray for the Humboldt Broncos hockey team and all of our highway overpasses! I’m just trying to get home alive from work.
Hopefully the high prices keeps them off the road for a few months and we can all have a safe fall and Christmas.
OMG, drivers! If you really want to get people on your side, do what everyone else. does when their costs go up, RAISE YOUR PRICES! Its what all the other companies do. A lot of my company’s cost that have gone up, is shipping. We trust you not to gouge but you gotta eat too. And thanks for working for free, but tKe care of yourself too. We are big boys and girls. We get it.
@jeff
Or you just offer a better product or service at the same price.
It is called competition.
Capitalism….. where competition without controls is a race to the bottom leads to this exact problem. In order to stay in the business, you need to undercut the competition until, in order to stay in the business, you end up paying instead of earning. The winner? The businesses pitting the workers against each other.
Ha ,ha… They undercut the general pricing in the trucking business to take a monopoly on the work and now it has come back to bite them on the flip flops.
Now that’s f**king Karma.
This protest makes as little sense as the freedumb protest did — none. All they did was waste expensive fuel which will drive the price up even higher. Too bad basic economics isn’t taught in schools.
Propane ? Are all white people happy about the prices?
The level of ignorance in some of these comments is astounding. Disagree with the protest if you want, but attacking people based on their ethnicity is completely out of line.
Truckers work long hours, pay taxes, and absorb enormous operating costs, especially fuel. Many are honest, skilled professionals who keep our economy running. Before judging them, take the time to understand the realities of the industry. Otherwise, it’s just another case of keyboard warriors making assumptions
It’s going to get worse in the fall. Much worse. $5/litre is coming.
The progressive motto: pay your fair share. Define fair share? All of it! Keep voting the way you do
The leaders of undercutting Canadian truck drivers forcing other companies out of business running fraudulent schools driving illegally fraudulently obtaining visas and residency etc etc are now crying. They’ve all voted for the people making fuel prices high better known as useful idiot’s.
BC the province that is always anti oil and gas, the leave it in the ground SJWs. They are always quick to complain about gas prices and point out how much more they pay then other provinces.
Boot Eby and build wells, pipelines and refineries. Stop blocking tankers ports and LNG facilities and let the economy and your fuel production ramp up and see prices go down.
Same mindset where they protest ranchers try to force them to feed cows seaweed then complain meat is expensive.
These Turban Suburbans have been undercutting not only the entire industry but themselves and now they have the audacity to cry about? Get out of here, you made your own bed.
Maybe the rich dudes need to take less, they can sure afford it
Considering all factors. Immigration and all. Your higher fuel taxes help pay for immigration costs when sponsors decide government should have to pay after realizing what they signed up for.
In 2022 diesel in Canada was $2.35 a litre everthing from food to furniture increased expeditiously blamed on haulage costs.
In 2025 diesel in Canada dropped to $1.35 a litre did those haulage costs drop back ? The answer no now it’s at $2.12 a litre in Surrey toddy re-gas buddy. And these privileged greedy owner operators who under cut everyone want handouts !!!
Go f$#k yourselfs
Can they switch from diesel to electric?
Holy hell that image is rough to look at, I feel like I can smell it from here…
They complain the cost of fuel is too high and make nothing…well they caused their own issues by continuing to undercut eachother for decades. Fix your own problem don’t blaim the government.
The dump truck and transportation companies have been undercutting themselves for YEARS because of greed and ego. They did this with the ports as well. So if there is any blame to be had, they can blame themselves. They agreed to work for pennies for years and now its backfired. Truck drivers are no different than anyone else who drives a car and just trying to survive. They’re not entitled to any special privileges with tax breaks… so quit the whinning
Rising fuel costs are putting pressure on truckers, but fuel is only part of the problem. Many are working at rates 15–20% below the industry standard. Even if fuel prices had not increased, those rates would still be too low.
Companies can bid work cheaply because truckers continue to accept it. If truckers collectively refuse rates that do not cover their costs, those bids will have no truck supply behind them.
The companies that held firm on industry standard rates and fuel clauses are still working. Lasting improvement starts with refusing unsustainable rates.
Gas prices are too high so let’s all use our privilege to take a day off and ruin working people’s day while burning the fuel that is so precious to them. These guys need to have some dignity and stop taking money from the far-right orgs staging these brain dead events.
They should direct their anger at the Mango Mussolini. He is directly responsible for the entire problem. Eby has nothing to do with it.