PARS Tracking · CBSA FPOA 0407
Live RNS status, broker cargo feed, and wait-time data for Canada-bound PARS loads crossing Sweetgrass, MT → Coutts, AB.
Coutts-Sweetgrass is the highest-volume Prairie commercial crossing, carrying freight between Alberta and the US Mountain West via Interstate 15. The load mix is distinctive: cattle and beef, oil and gas equipment, grain, and processed agricultural products. The crossing also handles a material share of the cross-border freight feeding into the Salt Lake City and Denver distribution markets.
PARS clears at CBSA FPOA 0407. The Coutts commercial office runs a fast RNS cycle because volumes are lower than eastern crossings. However, cattle import PARS require coordination with CFIA at the crossing — a standard PARS alone does not release a live animal shipment.
Peaks are less dramatic than at southern Ontario crossings — weekday mid-morning and late afternoon in both directions. Winter chinook wind events can close the crossing for safety, especially for empty trailers susceptible to blowover.
Coutts-Sweetgrass is one of the only crossings where CBSA and CBP plazas are effectively merged into a single shared facility — a legacy of the low pre-9/11 volume. Expect coordinated secondary referrals that would be physically separate at larger crossings.
PARS for Coutts-Sweetgrass is typically filed by brokers in Lethbridge, Milk River, Coutts, Sweetgrass, Great Falls. BorderPro pulls RNS updates directly from CBSA and correlates them with your broker's cargo feed — so "sent but not matched" situations are visible in real time, not discovered at the booth.
CBSA FPOA 0407 (Coutts). Your broker transmits cargo data here.
Yes — Coutts-Sweetgrass has a FAST lane in both directions for qualifying pre-approved commercial traffic.