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TFI- Transforce Terminals yards and buildings TFI- Transforce Terminals yards and buildings

By RobertArcher
Apr 30, 2024
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Laidlaw Highland (A Laidlaw tractor pulling a Highland Transport (now fallen flag) van turns into the TFI Interport terminal.)

T Force Freight (Seen at a motel at Aerowood and Dixie Roads in Mississauga. QuikX has been renamed T-Force Freight Canada. April 22 2024.)

National Fast Freight Pre TFI

TST Expedited Services

TST Truck Load - Charlie

TForce Freight KW (Greg Elgart photo of a TForce Freight Kenworth and a set of doubles at Carlisle PA. Summer 2023. Trailers have been rebranded from UPS Freight.)

Daseke - Big Freight Systems (TFI announced on December 22 2023 that they are acquiring Daseke Transportation of Dallas. That is a holding company of about 8 flat decka dn heavy haul carrier which Big Freight is the Canadian unit.)

kingsway city unit 1-14-11

kingsway bulk kw

ats retail 2-11-10

Cavalier in Swoosh (Although a TFI carrier for many years Cavalier retained its own colours and scheme but in October 2023 the trucks are wearing the Transforce Swoosh.)

SM Freight 2015

kingsway 272026 10-27-11

National Fast Freight (An "Intermodal LTL" carrier based in Concord ON.)

SM FREIGHT (SM Freight, a reefer carrier from Blenheim Ontario, was added to the TFI Carrier List in May 2023.)

UTL (Headed to Highway 403 on Eastgate Parkway.)

GUSGO April 2023

UTL Freightliner July 8 2011 (Driver adjusting tarp.)

Brasseur Transport 10-23-11 (Cascadia - rolled into Contrans Vrac)

Boutin - Transnat KW W900 (TFI acquired Group Boutin in November 2022. Transnat is one division.)

AXSUN Container (Axsun was acquired by TFI in February 2023.)

Axsun Group (February 21 2023 announcement that Axsun Group had been acquired. Based in Montreal.)

Kingsway City unit (Single Axle International with a cabano kingsway (both lower case) van.)

TJS - Transport Jules Savard (Transport Jules Savard was bought by Transport St. Michel. Distribution Dion.
Transport St Michel was bought by TFI and re-organized as TJS.)

Concord (Rolled into QuikX.
QuikX renamed TFreight Canada.)

Trans Nolicam 002 (Part of Transport Jules Savard.)

ATS Transport pre Transforce (ATS Andlaurer became ATS became Transforce Integrated Solutions)

Dist. Marcel Dion. (Shortly after this picture was taken the St Michel Group was taken over by TFI.)

Besner Volvo (Still (2023) an active carrier shown in TFI website.)

Concord (Concord was taken by Transforce and merged into QuikX)

Ganeca Peterbilt (Ganeca from Quebec. Merged into JCG perhaps.)

McArthur Express (McArthur Express from Cambridge ON)

UTL with Epic pups (A UTL tractor with a set of Epic trailers is turning into the Interport terminal possibly after a trip from western Canada.)

Brookville Trans. (Parked in Clarkson Petro-Pass.)

P(n)W Intermodal July 2022 (Freightliner Condo still working hauling containers fir P(n)W along the QEW in July 2022.)

Kingsway Bulk - Vrac July 2022. (Freightliner for Kingsway Vrac Bulk)

Canpar trailers

St. Lambert (Eastbound 401 near Milton.)

Durocher - Empty Flat. (Durocher was a common sighting. THis one had no load from Hamilton.)

McArthur Express Volvo 8-31-12

Gregoire Volvo (2022 - folded into JCG (JC Germaine))

A(n)M International (2022 folded into JCG (JC Germaine))

Select Daily following UTL

Trans 4 Logistics

JC Germaine with Transports DPM trailer

Tspt. A Beaumont 5-27-15 (Acquired by Transforce in 2018 - folded into Kingsway 2019.)

Kingsway Bulk Vrac T800

JAG, Les Services. (Acquired March 2019.)

Canpar with Papineau trailer

Canpar avec Papineau 3-9-11

Durocher with coils - 8-23-12 (Being passed by B&B which was acquired by Trimac.)

Transport Select (A cartage company tractor on Dixie Road north of Highway 401)

Kingsway Epic Express 9-21-11

select thibodeau

jc germain on dixie

Mc Gill Air (entering the Transforce Interport terminal.)

A(n) M International (entering the Transforce Interport terminal. February 10 2011.
(update May 2022) Was folded into JCG.)

Tspt Couture Mack (Parked at the 5Th Wheel TS in Milton. Couture taken over in 2008.)

Kingsway Bulk / Vrac

Tibbs Transport (Kemptville Ontario. Acquired by TF in 2017.)

Tombro Trucking Milton Ontario.

Villeneuve Tank Lines (Merged into CONTRANS VRAC with Brassieur.)

Laser Transport from Windsor

Gunter Transportation

D&D Sexton (US carrier D(n)&D Sexton Carthage MO, was acquired by TFI in November 2021. It will be rolled into CFI..
Sam Royalty photo with thanks.)

Tombro Trucking (Tombro Trucking from Milton hauls bricks and other construction materials. It was acquired by TFI in 2021.)

Dynamex (Courier - air freight hauler.)

SGT Volvo - 3-21-15 (October 2021 SGT was added to the TFI stable of carriers.)

SGT Peterbilt 587

SGT trailer on eXpressway train

Kingsway Vrac tridem dump

Kingsway Freightliner.

TST O'Land in Milton 7-7-15

Vitran Transforce (Clement Cartage with a Vitran trailer on Trafalgar Road near Highway 401. March 2015)

P(&)W International Sep 30 2021

Canpar Express Sep 30-011

Trans Gregoire 3-6-15 (Folded into JCG)

Kingsway f-liner

GHL leaving Suncor (The Petro-Can refinery wore the Suncor name in 2015. It was subsequently renamed PCLI - Petro-Can Lubricants Inc.)

GHL Peterbilt 567

Cavalier daycab (Not noted when I took the picture, this is two Transforce carriers. Transport America was TF's largest US acquisition at the time.)

TST Expedited 5-24-14

Highland Prostar-374156- 6-17-15

Dynamex Volvo 6-17-15

Craler International (Listed as a Logistics company based in Bois-Des-Filions QC.. Trucks are now plated in Nova Scotia as a subsidiary of Clarke Transport. (12-09-21))

Roadfast Day cab 06-02-14

Dupont from Quebec 4-18-15

TRIPAR Terminal

Tripar daycab 1-15-15

Clarke with Kingsway trailer. (The Kingsway name has disappeared from the TFI roster having been merged with Overland. Then the Overland name disappeared when it was merged into CF as TST-CF)

T-Force Integrated. (ATS was renamed T-Force Integrated Solutions)

Tripar Oakville (Equipment parked in the yard for the weekend.)

JAG Services JAG (Not often seen this far west Services JAG primarily run northern Quebec and Labrador.)

GBT Volvo (Formerly Gorski Bulk Transport, now GBT
Stand alone carrier in TFI group as of July 2021.)

Vitran city unit (Vitran is classified by TFI as an Intermodal LTL carrier.)

Cavalier Transportation

TTL in TFI paint and lettering (First picture of a TTL in TFI-Contrans paint and lettering.)

Canpar trailer graphics (Missed the tractor but got the trailer with graphics .
2021 version.)

KHT (This is actually now a Contrans Tank Group carrier although the takeover was by TFI and lettering and paint to TFI spec's.)

Canpar Courier Cascadia

Canpar Express Cascadia

TST Overland Express (Trailer still wearing TST Overland graphics although company name no longer on TFI directory.)

Fleetway Transport

TST Expedited Services (Carrier survives as specialized TFI carrier.)

Daily Motor Freight

UPS Freight (In a shocking announcement in January 2021 TFI will buy United States LTL carrier UPS Freight for 800 million dollars. The new company will be TFI Freight and the deal is expected to close on April 30 2021. UPS Freight was Overnite Transportation before UPS acquired it. Charlie Danko photo with thanks.)

TST- CF Express (This seems to be the sum of all the LTL carriers that Transforce has taken over in Canada. Including TST Overland, Kingsway, Canadian Freightways, Daily, Select, Cabano, and more.)

Kingsway Freightlines (Long Haul division of Kingsway. Toronto and Montreal to western Canada. Picture from 1970's .)

Cabano-Kingsway trailer - McGill roll up door.

Cabano Kingsway tractor with a Papineau city trailer.

Kingsway with Cabano Kingsway trailer. (Cabano Kingsway included former carriers McNeil-McGrath which Fastfrate had combined then folded into or sold off to Cabano. Fastfrate and Kingsway were associated but Fastfrate spun off.)

Lacaille International (Merci a Rene Buron
Drummondville QC spring 2005)

TST Overland - Thibodeau (Merci a Rene Buron
Quebec City Summer 2015)

TST Automotive Services (Merci a Rene Buron
Whitby ON - Spring 2002)

Loomis Express trailer (Merci a Rene Buron
Windsor Ontario - Spring 2014)

Trans4 - Staples (Merci a Rene Buron
Mississauga Spring 2009)

Lapalme 10 wheeler (Merci a Rene Buron
Granby QC -summer 2008)

Kingsway Vrac (Freightliner tractor at local mall while driver went for supper.)

Universal Contract Logistics (Lachine QC - spring 2005
Merci a Rene Buron for this photo.)

LIA International trailer (Bois-des-Fillion QC
Merci a Rene Buron for this picture)

Begin tractor (Merci a Rene Buron for this picture
Magog QC - summer 2006)

A(n) M International (Merci a Rene Buron for this picture
Ville-Saint-Laurent QC - spring 2005)

J.C.Germaine - Interforce (merci a Rene Buron for this picture.
L'Ange Garden QC - fall 2005)

St. Lambert Peterbilt (Merci a Rene Buron for this picture.
Pointe-Claire QC fall 2005)

Roadfast Coronado

KHT - Keith Hall and Sons

P(n)W Intermodal (P&W was combined with MTMX. They moved from Maplegrove Road Oakville to the old CPR Obico terminal on North Queen Street.)

APPS Transport Group (Apps was taken over by TFI in 2020 but the Competition Bureau prevented the merger.
Apps was then sold to Mullen Group.)

Fleetway T800 (Fleetway was acquired on February 1 2021.)

Keith Hall and Sons

Ganeca August 24 2018 (As TFI merges more carriers many names are disappearing including Ganeca.)

Concord city unit (Concord Transportation 1973 to 2020. Merged into QuikX on 12-31-20)

TST Truckload Express Volvo (This carrier has been rolled into Laidlaw Van Division.
Picture taken winter 2004)

Trans4 Logistics 7-12-14

Clarke Container

Clarke Transport Inc (An "Intermodal" LTL carrier)

Loomis ex DHL (Loomis was on old line courier company whose name ended up as an operating company of Transforce. DHL exited the domestic air courier business and sold the Canadian operating to Transforce who resurected the Loomis name. This looks to be a trailer for air cargo operations.)

Highland Prostar 9-23-15

MTMX Logistics International

GHL Transport (GHL is a tank carrier based in Quebec City.
Seen in Clarkson, February 2014)

Kingsway Bulk - Vrac (CRP is a small carrier leasing trucks on with Kingsway Bulk. 11-11-20)

Trailers at the terminal

KHT (One of TFI's newest acquisitions. KHT or Keith Hall and Sons)

Canpar (A long time TFI acquisition Canpar.)

T-Force Integrated Systems

Keith Hall & Sons, Burford Ontario (TFI acquired Keith Hall and Sons Transport on July 31 2020.)

GBT - Gorski tractor (Parked at Clarkson Crossing)

TFI Seatainer (Seatainer is an operating carrier of Gusgo Transport acquired in June 2020)

TFI Gusgo (Gusgo Transport was acquired by TFI in June 2020.)

TForce Integrated Solutions

Gorski Dennis Ternent W900

P(and)W Intermodal (An older T2000 Kenworth on the way to pick up a container at one of the SW Mississauga CY.)

Loomis Express swoosh (Grab shot of a Loomis Exp[ress trailer on the street. 6-9-20. Loomis was a Courier company whose corporate name was acquired by Transforce. It was applied to the domestic operations of DHL Express when that company was acquired by TFI.)

Transport Couture

Kingsway city unit 08 26 08 (This Kingsway unit had an older Cabano Kingsway jitney trailer. It was stopped on the street delivering to a store.)

Roadfast International

Laidlaw Van Division

Besner Transport (May 2005
Based in St.Romuald (Levis) Quebec.)

Papineau heads west (Highway 401 09-24-16)

Brasseur - Garworld (Brasseur is a Transforce company. Garworld is a small carrier from Montreal.)

Daily columbia (July 2007 Daily was still a stand alone carrier in the Transforce Group. It would be amalgamated with Select which would then be amalgamated into Kingsway which would eventually be amalgamated into TST Overland.)

Transport America - PPG (June 20 2006 near PPG plant in Mississauga.
Taken over by Transforce in 2014.
November 9 2021, TFI announced Transport America will be folded into CFI.)

Brasseur Transport (Contrans Vrac by merger between Brasseur Transport, a chemical transport leader, and Villeneuve Tank Lines, a food-grade company, Contrans Vrac is the largest one-stop shop for liquid bulk transportation.)

Tspt A Beaumont (Acquired by Transforce in 2018 it was folded into Kingsway Bulk-Vrac in 2019.)

Golden Intl (before being acquired by Transforce.
Picture August 2005.)

tst expedite 23083 (picture =05-29-08)

epic express intl (2006-11-29)

Mcgill Air (Transport McGill was a Dorval Quebec based carrier who did "road feeder service" between airports based at Montreal. Merged into Kingsway.)

UTL Transportation (UTL came to Transforce with the Canadian Freightways acquisition. UTL - United Terminals - was the main sufferance warehouse serving Vancouver. UTL was then formed to join Canadian Freightways (western Canada) with Epic Express, the successor to Canadian Freightways Eastern. Transforce also acquired Interport Sufferance Terminals in Mississauga from the estate of Canadian freightways.)

Group Thibideau (Saguelac trailer from March 2007.)

Kingsway and TST Overland (Kingsway was merged into TST Overland by TFI but this Freightliner city tractor has not been re-badged. March 11 2020.)

Montkar international 01-24-08

kingsway volvo 01-24-08

Craler Transport (Varennes and Barrie ON.
Taken over August 2019)

Kingsway - Epic (The Transforce mergers continued. Epic Express had replaced Canadian Freightways Eastern . It was merged into Kingsway.)

Muskoka Delivery Services (Seen in Orillia in April 2009 it was sold to Transforce in December 2016.)

GHL leaves Petrocan (Oakville - Bronte terminal
Boxing Day 2007.
Pre-Transforce paint.)

Durocher with plate steel (A Durocher Inaternational with a wide load of plate steel.)

Durocher International l prostar (October 2012
Based in St Felix De Kingsey Quebec.
near Drummondville.)

Highland Trailer -September 2019 (A Highland Transport trailer was still being used but I didn't see which carrier. Laidlaw perhaps.)

Brookville Carriers (Flat deck from Brookville Carriers enters QEW.
Brookville has been placed in the Contrans group of carriers. Head office Truro and terminal in St John NB)

Normandin on QEW -092019 (No TFI markings on this eastbound Normandin.)

TTL International - QEW eastbound.

Gregoire Transport (Picture 10-22-2013
Tspt Gregoire is based in Victoriaville PQ
Update - Has been folded into JCG.)

Roadfast Columbia (Picture - 2006-09-04. Roadfast tractor with QuikX trailer near their Mississauga terminal.)

quikx volvo bobtail (Picture 2006-09-04. QuikX city tractor near the Mississauga terminal.)

Nordique - Transport Nordique. (Picture - October 6 2013
Nordique is based in St. Jerome PQ)

Canpar B Train set -QEW

J.C.Germain Cascadia QEW

Kingsway - Epic Express (When Canadian Freightways was not folded with CF the eastern division ran as Epic Express. Epic was folded into Kingsway.)

Kingsway Vrac at truckstop

Cavalier (LTL carrier based in Biolton. Terminals Montreal, Syracuse, Rochester and Chicago.)

Cabano Kingsway (An early Transforce carrier merge was Cabano and Kingsway. Picture taken February 2013. The Cabano name was dropped and then Kingsway merged into TST Overland.)

Brasseur leaves 5th wheel (August 15 2009.
Now Contrans Vrac)

GHL on Southdown Road.

Canpar B train doubles.

Clarke Intermodal

St Lambert (A poor picture but the only St Lambert I got.
Merged into Trans Besner as a division.)

Kingsway Bulk - Vrac (March 31 2009)

Select Daily in Oakville

ATS Hino (Hino straight truck from ATS)

Lacaille - Papineau. (Georges Lacaille was acquired by Transforce and named Lacaille International. They were merged into Papineau International.)

Bergeron et Fils (Based in Amos Quebec - primarily hauls wood chips .
This picture June 2013.
Rolled into Kingsway Vrac Bulk.)

Clarke Intermodal (Classed by TFI as an Intermodal LTL carrier.)

GHL Peterbilt 567 (Leaving PetroPass truck stop with a load of lubricant oil.)

MTMX Volvo (OOCL 40 foot container.
OOCL had taken over CP Ships.)

mtmx Freightliner FLD (Hamburg Sud 40 foot reefer container.)

Normandin Transit

Highland Transport - Eastbound (Eastbound and down on Highway 401 near Guelph Ontario.)

GHL Cascadia with tank

Papineau International Pete 386 (Owner operator westbound Highway 401- April 2016)

TST Truckload Columbia (Westbound Highway 401 - April 2016.)

Vitran Delivery

Highland Transport - Rene Buron Photo (Rene Buron Highland Transport 2015)

Canpar (On the way to a pickup in Mississauga)

P(n)W Intermodal

Highland Transport (Last picture taken of a Highland unit.)

Kingsway before Overland (A Kingsway Cascadia daycab before it was rolled into TST Overland.)

Kingsway Vrac (The Kingsway name survives Transforce forced amalgamations as Kingsway Bulk- Vrac. Kingsway did not have a tank division when they were taken over by Cabano who morphed into Transforce who morphed into TFI)

ATS (Transforce took part of Andlauer Transport of Rexdale. It has since been renamed T Force Integrated Logistcs)

TTL` (TFI acquired TTL of Hamilton)

Vitran (Transforce acquired the Canadian operations of Vitrans and placed it in the Intermodal LTL division.)

Ent. Dupont (Ent Dupont, based in St Bruno QC, is a bulk cement hauler.
Two of their trucks were Hamilton bound on QEW in November 2012.)

ganeca qew (Ganeca Freightliner eastbound QEW at Mississauga Road 6-19-19)

TForce Integrated Solutions

Highland Transport R.I.P. (1967 to June 28 2019.
Highland Transport was the full load division of Smith then CP Transport was established in 1967. TFI closed it down effective June 28 2019.)

Trans2 D Logistics (Possibly merged into Kingsway Bulk)

McArthur Express (Based in Cambridge ON)

Papineau Intl (Based in St. Jerome PQ)

Kingsway Transport (Kingsway was merged into Overland)

MTMX F-Liner (Intermodal hauler)

MTMX with 20 foot can (Seen heading to yard on Maplegrove Road in Oakville.)

QuikX city tractors (QuikX tractors at the Davand Drive terminal. This terminal has been leased to Canada Cartage by TFI Properties. QuikX has been moved to Interport.)

Roadfast (Westbound 401 by Campbellville - March 2016. Roadfast came to TFI with the QuikX acquisition. Not on company list May 2019.)

CFI- conway (CFI during Conway ownership)

GHL Peterbilt tractor

Ganeca (Ganeca is based in Carignon PQ)

TST Truckload Express

CFI - Transforce (Originally Contract Freighters Inc, this company was absorbed by Conway and renamed Conway Freight Inc. Conway was absorbed by XPO Logistics and the truckload division sold to Transforce. They resurrected the CFI Contract Freighters name for this subsidiary.)

Highland Transport 1967 - 2019 R.I.P. (Announced on May 30 that Highland will be shutdown on June 28 2019.)

Tspt A Beaumont Lonestar. (Southdown Road in Mississauga.
Acquired 2018,
Folded into Kingsway Vrac 2019.)

Transforce Meet (Highway 401 near Islington. JC Germain heads east to Quebec. Gregoire heads west.)

Tspt A Beaumont (Acquired by Transforce in 2018 A Beaumont is s Quebec based bulk carrier. Merged into Kingsway Bulk in 2019.)

Besner Volvo (TFI carrier based in Levis Quebec.)

Clarke Road Dec 2015 (Clarke was based in Halifax and sold it's transportation assetts to Transforce. It serves all Canada by intermodal rail, Newfoundland by containers and a road division based in Brampton . This Freightliner is from Clarke Road.)

Transport JC Germain (Based in Trois Rivieres QC - acquired by Transforce 1998. TFI 1.)

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