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Updated 2026-06-26. established Canadian importer ships across Ontario and the rest of Canada.
Headquartered in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Samurai Trucks fully services every truck — and customizes it to spec if you want — at our shop before shipping it to North Bay and delivering Canada-wide.
Home to around 50,000 people, North Bay sits roughly 2,892 km from our Grande Prairie, Alberta shop in a straight line.
Hunters, foresters, and outfitters in and around North Bay are a steady source of kei truck demand. The size, low ground clearance compromise, and 4WD low-range gearing all matter when you're moving a quarter of elk down a logging road or threading a forestry truck through a slash trail. We've shipped trucks into the North Bay region for exactly this kind of work for many years.
The hunting and forestry case around North Bay comes down to fit, gearing, and quiet. A kei truck is narrow enough for bush roads that brush a half-ton on both mirrors, its selectable 4WD low range gives real crawl gearing for a load of firewood or a quartered animal, and a 660cc engine at low revs doesn't carry the way a V8 does on a still morning.
Day to day around North Bay, that means forestry-road access to camps, between-camp shuttle runs, trap-line maintenance, woodlot work, and on-property utility jobs that never see pavement. It's a working tool for the country it's in, not a highway truck pressed into trail duty.
The compromise is honest and worth stating plainly: a kei truck isn't a one-ton tow rig. A heavy boat, an oversize ATV on a long trailer, or full-cord firewood at highway speed are the wrong jobs for it. The gear-game-tools-fuel-cans-dogs side of hunting and forestry is squarely in its design envelope; the heavy-tow side isn't.
Registering a kei truck in North Bay runs through ServiceOntario. The standard sequence is: clear federal customs and Transport Canada at the border (kei trucks 15+ years old are import-eligible), complete the Safety Standards Certificate (SSC) at a licensed inspection station, then plate at the registry counter. The federal 15-year import rule applies the same way it does anywhere in Canada outside Quebec.
Some North Bay registry agents have processed many kei trucks; others have processed none. If you encounter pushback — an agent who isn't sure how to enter a right-hand-drive Japanese vehicle — that's a paperwork and supervisor-loop-in issue, not a legal barrier. The truck is admissible. Sometimes you wait while the agent loops in a supervisor; sometimes you come back the next day after the file has been reviewed. We don't pretend the North Bay counter experience is uniform across the province, but it does land successfully for our customers, and we walk every buyer through what to bring.
For the long-form provincial breakdown — insurance market, climate notes, off-road / farm use, FAQs — see our Ontario legal guide.
Ontario and Quebec deliveries are cross-country freight — rail-deck through to the closest hub plus a final-mile truck leg into North Bay. The total transit is normally a couple of weeks rather than a few days, but we'll give you a concrete quote and timeline before any deposit is taken.
We ship across Canada and have for over two decades. The North Bay delivery is part of any sale we quote, and we'll route the truck around weather and seasonal road conditions rather than promise an aggressive date we can't keep.
The single biggest determinant of how a kei truck holds up in North Bay long-term is the parts pipeline behind it. Parts and service run out of our Grande Prairie, Alberta shop and we ship parts across the country — the full catalogue is at parts.html and the Ontario-relevant pages link from there. Most North Bay-area mechanics will install parts you supply, and that's typically the fastest path: we ship the part, your mechanic does the install. For anything we don't stock in Canada, sourcing from Japan is a couple-of-weeks turnaround through our partner network.
If you're stuck on a fitment question or trying to figure out whether a particular part fits your specific chassis (DA63T, DA52T, S100P, HA6, etc.), call us at 780-533-3303 and we'll walk you through it. Samurai trucks canada, 25+ years deep, talks parts every day.
Buying a kei truck from us is straightforward in the abstract and full of small details in practice, and we walk every North Bay customer through both. The short version: we keep kei trucks in stock and have more arriving regularly, so depending on what you're after, your truck may already be on the ground or inbound — and for a specific build we'll source it to spec through our Japan network and inspect it before it ships. Either way you take delivery landed-Canada with all duties and taxes already paid. The longer version is the conversation we have on the phone.
We keep kei trucks in stock and have more arriving regularly, so depending on what you're after, your truck may already be here or inbound; for a specific spec we'll source it to order through our Japan network. Either way the order of operations is the same: a quick scoping call to understand the use case, a written quote with landed pricing, a deposit, then delivery to North Bay — federal duties and taxes already paid, with the SSC step at a Ontario inspection station and plating at the registry as the only provincial steps left.
Things we always confirm before deposit, especially for North Bay customers: that the spec we're proposing actually matches the use case (a 2WD Carry isn't the right truck for a forestry road, and a 4WD low-range Hijet is overkill for a property runabout); that the parts pipeline for the chassis we're picking is healthy; and that the registration path makes sense given the customer's specific situation (some buyers really don't need road registration and we'll say so). That up-front honesty is, frankly, why customers come back and refer their neighbours.
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