Reefer LTL — Refrigerated LTL Shipping Across Canada

Reefer LTL — Refrigerated LTL Shipping Across Canada

Most refrigerated carriers want your full truckload and nothing less. Ship three pallets of frozen product and you’re stuck choosing between paying for 53 feet you don’t use or handing your freight to a general LTL network that treats a reefer as an afterthought. Cargo County runs reefer LTL as a scheduled service, not a favour: refrigerated LTL consolidation across Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, on the same trucks and schedules that move our truckload freight. Behind it stands a fleet of 500+ temperature-controlled trailers, and dispatch can pull a live temperature reading from any one of them mid-run.

Scheduled Reefer LTL Consolidation, Priced by the Pallet

Our LTL freight rides the same scheduled network as our truckloads: Toronto–Montreal refrigerated corridor service [VERIFY: confirm daily departure frequency] and Maritimes lanes running full both ways, linking Ontario and Quebec with Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI. Because the trucks are running anyway, your pallets buy space on a scheduled departure instead of chartering a trailer — you pay a pallet rate that reflects the space and weight you actually use, not a full-truckload price divided badly. Freight crossing into Quebec ships with paperwork in both languages. And because we own the equipment, there’s no re-brokering: the trailer that loads at your dock is ours until delivery.

Frozen, Chilled and Multi-Temp — Without Co-Loading Conflicts

Consolidation only works if the carrier respects set points. We build reefer LTL loads by temperature band: frozen rides with frozen at the set point your product spec calls for, chilled rides with chilled — never a “compromise temperature” that splits the difference and satisfies nobody’s QA department. Every trailer in the fleet reports its temperature through live telemetry, so we’re watching your set point in transit rather than discovering a problem at the receiver’s dock. When a shipment genuinely needs two temperatures, we plan it as separate consolidations instead of gambling with one box.

The Moncton Cross-Dock Advantage for Atlantic LTL

Most Atlantic-bound LTL gets handed between carriers somewhere east of Quebec City. Ours doesn’t. The dock it crosses is ours — a Moncton yard with a freezer on site, backed by a Saint John location — so Atlantic reefer LTL changes hands exactly once, under our temperature control the whole way. Linehaul from Ontario or Quebec arrives in Moncton, breaks, and delivers across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI on our own trucks. [VERIFY: confirm Moncton break-bulk workflow and Saint John’s role in LTL delivery.] Because these lanes run loaded in both directions, Maritimes LTL rates reflect real round-trip economics instead of a one-way premium plus a stranger’s margin.

Dense Freight Welcome: Tri-Axle Reefers for Heavy Pallets

General LTL carriers punish dense freight — frozen meat, concentrates, packaged liquids — with cube rules written for dry goods. We run tri-axle reefers precisely because they legally carry more payload than a tandem, which makes heavy pallets a fit rather than a problem. If your product is short and heavy, give us the real weights up front and we’ll plan it onto triaxle equipment instead of splitting the shipment or bumping you to a truckload price.

Who Ships Reefer LTL With Us

Food manufacturers moving partial production runs to distributors. Seafood shippers sending westbound from the Maritimes to Ontario and Quebec buyers. Grocery replenishment that can’t wait to build a full load. Ingredient suppliers feeding plants on both ends of the network. The common thread: temperature-sensitive product in quantities under a truckload, on lanes we already run on schedule. If that describes your freight, it fits our schedule.

FAQ

Q: Is there a single-pallet minimum for reefer LTL?

We quote from a single pallet up to a partial truckload. [VERIFY: confirm single-pallet minimum and any minimum charge.] The honest version: small shipments work best on our core lanes — one skid to Moncton on a truck already going is a fair rate; one skid to a city off our network may not be.

Q: What are typical reefer LTL transit times?

Toronto–Montreal moves on our corridor service [VERIFY: confirm daily frequency and typical next-day transit]. Ontario/Quebec to the Maritimes runs on the scheduled lanes — typically [X] business days depending on departure day and final delivery point [VERIFY: publish confirmed per-lane transit ranges]. Consolidated freight moves on scheduled departures, so transit depends partly on when you tender against the schedule.

Q: What temperature ranges can you handle

We run freight at the set point your spec requires — deep frozen, standard frozen (−18 °C), fresh/chilled (0 °C to +4 °C), and controlled ambient — with the trailer’s actual temperature monitored live in transit. [VERIFY: confirm the fleet’s published set-point range.]

Q: How is reefer LTL priced?

By pallet position and weight on the lane, not as a fraction of a truckload rate. The Ontario–Quebec–Maritimes network reloads at both ends, which keeps pallet rates grounded, and heavy pallets that need triaxle equipment are priced on real weight rather than penalized under dry-freight density rules. Call 1-888-673-9601 with pallet count, weights, set point and postal codes for a quote.

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