Highland Transport by RobertArcher

Highland Transport by RobertArcher

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

By RobertArcher
Mar 23, 2024
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A(n) M International (Merci a Rene Buron for this picture
Ville-Saint-Laurent QC - spring 2005)

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

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

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.)

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

ATS Hino (Hino straight truck from ATS)

ats retail 2-11-10

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

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.)

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

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

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

Besner Volvo (TFI carrier based in Levis Quebec.)

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

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

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

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

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.)

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

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)

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

Cabano-Kingsway trailer - McGill roll up door.

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.)

Cabano Kingsway tractor with a Papineau city trailer.

Canpar (On the way to a pickup in Mississauga)

Canpar (A long time TFI acquisition Canpar.)

Canpar avec Papineau 3-9-11

Canpar B train doubles.

Canpar B Train set -QEW

Canpar Courier Cascadia

Canpar Express Cascadia

Canpar Express Sep 30-011

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

Canpar trailers

Canpar with Papineau trailer

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

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.)

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.)

Cavalier Transportation

CFI- conway (CFI during Conway ownership)

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.)

Clarke Container

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

Clarke Intermodal

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.)

Clarke Transport Inc (An "Intermodal" LTL carrier)

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)

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

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

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

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))

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

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.)

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.)

Daily Motor 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.)

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

Dupont from Quebec 4-18-15

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

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

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

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

Dynamex (Courier - air freight hauler.)

Dynamex Volvo 6-17-15

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.)

epic express intl (2006-11-29)

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

Fleetway Transport

Ganeca (Ganeca is based in Carignon PQ)

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

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

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

GBT - Gorski tractor (Parked at Clarkson Crossing)

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

GHL Cascadia with tank

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

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

GHL on Southdown Road.

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

GHL Peterbilt 567

GHL Peterbilt tractor

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

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

Gorski Dennis Ternent W900

Gorski Volvo (Gorski eas not taken over by Transforce until late 2017.)

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

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

Group Thibideau (Saguelac trailer from March 2007.)

Gunter Transportation

GUSGO April 2023

Highland Prostar-374156- 6-17-15

Highland Prostar 9-23-15

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

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

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

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

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

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.)

J.C.Germain Cascadia QEW

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

JAG, Les Services. (Acquired March 2019.)

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

JC Germaine with Transports DPM trailer

jc germain on dixie

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

Keith Hall and Sons

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

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

KHT - Keith Hall and Sons

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

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

kingsway 272026 10-27-11

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.)

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

Kingsway Bulk - Vrac (March 31 2009)

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

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

Kingsway Bulk / Vrac

kingsway bulk kw

Kingsway Bulk Vrac T800

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

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.)

kingsway city unit 1-14-11

Kingsway Epic Express 9-21-11

Kingsway f-liner

Kingsway Freightliner.

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

Kingsway Transport (Kingsway was merged into Overland)

kingsway volvo 01-24-08

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)

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

Kingsway Vrac at truckstop

Kingsway Vrac tridem dump

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

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

Laidlaw Van Division

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

Laser Transport from Windsor

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

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.)

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.)

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

McArthur Express (Based in Cambridge ON)

McArthur Express (McArthur Express from Cambridge ON)

McArthur Express Volvo 8-31-12

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

Mc Gill Air (entering the Transforce Interport terminal.)

Montkar international 01-24-08

MTMX F-Liner (Intermodal hauler)

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

MTMX Logistics International

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

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

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

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

National Fast Freight Pre TFI

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

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

Normandin Transit

P(&)W International Sep 30 2021

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

P(n)W Intermodal

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.)

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

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

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

Papineau Intl (Based in St. Jerome PQ)

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.)

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

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

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

Roadfast Coronado

Roadfast Day cab 06-02-14

Roadfast International

Select Daily following UTL

Select Daily in Oakville

select thibodeau

SGT Peterbilt 587

SGT trailer on eXpressway train

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

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

SM Freight 2015

St. Lambert (Eastbound 401 near Milton.)

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

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

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

T-Force Integrated Systems

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

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

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.)

TForce Integrated Solutions

TForce Integrated Solutions

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

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.)

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

Tombro Trucking Milton Ontario.

Trailers at the terminal

Trans2 D Logistics (Possibly merged into Kingsway Bulk)

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

Trans 4 Logistics

Trans4 Logistics 7-12-14

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

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

Trans Nolicam 002 (Part of Transport Jules Savard.)

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.)

Transport Couture

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

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

Tripar daycab 1-15-15

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

TRIPAR Terminal

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

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

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

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

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

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.)

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

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

TST Expedited 5-24-14

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

TST Expedited Services

TST O'Land in Milton 7-7-15

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

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

TST Truck Load - Charlie

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

TST Truckload Express

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

TTL International - QEW eastbound.

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

TTL` (TFI acquired TTL of Hamilton)

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

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.)

UTL (Headed to Highway 403 on Eastgate Parkway.)

UTL Freightliner July 8 2011 (Driver adjusting tarp.)

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.)

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.)

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

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

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

Vitran Delivery

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

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