Contract Information:
Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd. was formed in 1988 in response to British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation initiative to privatize provincial highway and bridge maintenance. The company began their tenure of the Nechako Contract Area (Service Area #23), on October 28, 1988. One of three original companies (YRB (Prince George) and YRB (Robson) being the others), YRB (Nechako) Ltd. has successfully won the Nechako Contract Area highway maintenance contract each time it has been re-tendered (1991, 1996, 2004 and most recently in 2019. Our current contract was renewed on June 1st 2019 and will expire on May 30, 2029, with the possibility of a 5-year extension.
As with all other YRB companies, Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Nechako) Ltd. is 100% employee-owned. All employee-owners take great pride in the work they do providing maintenance services in the communities where they and their families live.
Geographical Information:
The Nechako Contract Area contains the main towns of Nechako, Fort St. James and Fraser Lake, as well as the communities of Fort Fraser and Endako. YRB (Nechako) Ltd. has a maintenance facilities in Nechako, Fort St. James and Fraser Lake. The contract area boundaries are located, approximately , at Bednesti Lake on Highway 16 to the east, the top of Priestly Hill on Highway 16 to the west, Kenney Dam to the south, and 106 km’s north of Fort St. James on the Germansen road to the north.
Service area 23 contains 3049 lane kilometers of maintained roads (428 lane kilometers of which is numbered highways, 5 rest areas, approximately 56 structures (43 bridges, 12 large culverts and 1 tunnel).
Company Awards:
- Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd was the finalist for recognition of excellence in road and bridge maintenance in 2003
- Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd was the finalist for recognition of excellence in road and bridge maintenance in 2004
- Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd received first place for recognition of excellence in road and bridge maintenance in 2014
- Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd received the award for excellence in road and bridge maintenance in 2019
- Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd received the award for excellence for community service in 2020
- Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd received the award for excellence for safety innovation in 2022
Yellowhead Road and Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd.
The Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Vanderhoof) Ltd team strives for maintenance excellence, equipment innovation and community involvement.
Our team members are dedicated to providing levels of service that exceed that of the maintenance specifications and continue to evolve their operations to align with the changing climate conditions.
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