Durham Region, Ontario
Barricade rental in Durham Region
Steel barricades, belt posts, T-stands and printed sign frames for hire, delivered to parking lots, fairgrounds and event sites across Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering and Clarington.
For hire in Durham Region
What you can rent
Rental prices
Stanchion rental prices in Durham Region
Posts + Ropes
Gold post + velvet rope
Price per post, with its velvet rope
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Posts + Belts
Black post + retractable belt
Price per post, with its retractable belt
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Delivery, setup and collection are available and quoted on their own lines. The final price is confirmed in your quote.
What Durham hires
When the queue is made of cars.
A lot of what Durham hires is laid out on asphalt for people who never leave their vehicle: food and toy drives, holiday light routes, car shows, graduation parades, ticket and merchandise pickups. The job is marking lanes — where a car enters, how it winds through the lot without blocking the road, where it stops at a station and how it gets out. Steel barricade does that clearly, because a driver can see it from a distance and it does not shift in the draught from passing vehicles. It is a guide for traffic, not a crash barrier, and nobody should plan a route as if it were one.
Lanes a driver can read
Continuous runs of galvanized barricade that show the path plainly from behind a windscreen, in daylight or under lot lighting.
Stations along the route
Gaps left in the line where volunteers hand over boxes, check tickets or take donations, with a clear pull-in space at each one.
Signs at driver height
T-stands and sign frames placed where a driver's eye falls — lane numbers, the direction to turn and what to have ready at the window.
Where we deliver
Along the lakeshore towns and up into the townships.
Durham is a region rather than a city, so drops are to lots, fairgrounds and plazas spread over a long stretch of lakeshore and farmland. Delivery, setup and collection are separate lines on the quote; for a vehicle route the setup line is worth taking, because a lane built the wrong way round is only discovered when the first car meets it head on.
- Oshawa
- Whitby
- Ajax
- Pickering
- Clarington
- Bowmanville
- Courtice
- Newcastle
- Brooklin
- Port Perry
- Uxbridge
- Scugog
- Brock
Deliveries go to the places a Durham drive-through is usually run:
- shopping centre and big-box parking lots
- the fairgrounds and agricultural grounds across the region
- the arena and sports complex car parks
- the college and university campus lots in the north of Oshawa
- waterfront parks and their access roads
- church, school and community centre lots
Send a sketch of the lot with the entrance, the exit and each station marked, and the barricade count is worked out from the lanes rather than from the size of the lot.
Worth asking
What a Durham organiser usually asks first.
- What do stanchions cost to hire in Durham Region?
- Our two post sets — gold with velvet rope, or black with retractable belt — are each $19 for a day, $29 for three days and $39 for a week. A drive-through usually uses a few posts at the walk-up stations and relies on barricade for the lanes. Transporting it all to the lot, marking out the route and clearing it are costed as separate lines.
- Will a barricade stop a car?
- No, and it should not be treated as if it would. Steel barricade marks a lane that drivers can see clearly and follow; it is not rated to stop a vehicle. Where the route passes pedestrians or volunteers, plan the layout so cars are moving slowly there, and let traffic marshals do the directing.
- How many barricade sections does a car lane need?
- That comes from the length of the lanes and the number of turns, not from the number of cars expected. Send a rough drawing of the lot showing the entrance, the turns and each stop, and the section count is worked out lane by lane with the gaps for stations left in.
- Can the lanes carry our event branding?
- Yes. Printed covers on the barricade sections turn the route into a run of panels a driver passes slowly, which suits sponsors and charity partners. Sign frames and T-stands take printed panels for lane numbers and directions too. Everything printed is produced for the order.
- Do the barricades stay upright in wind on an open lot?
- Steel sections interlock and stand on their own feet, so a continuous run is much steadier than single posts would be. Printed covers catch the wind, though, so on an exposed lot we keep them to the sheltered stretches and say so on the quote.