Cargo County runs Toronto to Montreal refrigerated LTL and full reefer truckloads in both directions on the 401 and Autoroute 20 — frozen and chilled, from single pallet positions up to full trailers. We are an asset carrier based in Bolton, Ontario, with a fleet of 500+ temperature-controlled trailers. The trailer at your dock is ours, the driver is ours, and the temperature record from pickup to delivery is ours to show you.
Our trucks run this corridor with daily/near-daily [VERIFY: departure frequency] departures in both directions. Book pallet positions at refrigerated LTL rates or take a full trailer — each load runs at the setpoint your product needs, and every trailer reports its temperature live through onboard telemetry. A reefer drifting warm gets caught somewhere around Kingston, not at the receiver’s dock in Montreal. Because this is a scheduled lane for us and not a spot-market fill-in, you get the same equipment and the same pricing logic week after week, not a rate that jumps every time capacity tightens.
Food and beverage is the backbone of Toronto Montreal reefer freight: chilled and frozen CPG out of GTA plants into Quebec distribution, dairy and ingredients feeding Montreal-area food manufacturers, produce moving through the Ontario Food Terminal, and finished goods heading back west from Quebec co-packers. Our equipment and handling are food-grade across the fleet [VERIFY: HACCP/CFIA program status], and the same group runs food-only tankers up to 38,000 L if your product moves in bulk rather than on skids.
Deliveries into Quebec come with bilingual delivery paperwork, so the receiver signs documents they can actually read and any exception gets noted in the language the dock works in. That sounds small until an OS&D claim hinges on what was written at the door. Shippers who send freight into Montreal DCs with English-only documents learn this the expensive way; our Quebec-facing loads are documented for Quebec from the start.
We load this lane in both directions with our own customers’ freight — eastbound out of Ontario plants, westbound out of Quebec manufacturers and co-packers. Montreal is also the hinge of our scheduled refrigerated network into the Maritimes, so trailers arriving from Toronto keep working instead of deadheading home. When a truck earns money both ways, nobody has to fold the cost of an empty return into your rate. That is why our Toronto to Montreal reefer truckload pricing holds steady when the spot market does not.
Beverage, dairy, and frozen protein regularly weigh out a tandem trailer before they cube out. We run tri-axle reefers on this corridor specifically for that freight: more legal payload per trailer, which can turn two light tandem loads into one tri-axle load. If you are splitting heavy refrigerated shipping between Toronto and Montreal across multiple trucks to stay legal, ask us to price it on a tri-axle first — one trailer, one delivery appointment, one temperature record.
Next-day delivery is the normal expectation for full truckloads on this corridor, and LTL transit depends on the departure schedule [VERIFY: standard transit commitments, incl. the next-day FTL expectation, and whether same-day/expedited service is offered]. Call 1-888-673-9601 with your pickup and delivery windows and we will tell you straight what we can commit to.
We price refrigerated LTL by the pallet position, with a minimum of [X] pallet(s) [VERIFY: LTL minimum]. If your volume grows past roughly half a trailer, ask for a truckload quote — on a two-way lane like this one, the crossover point comes sooner than most shippers expect.
Greater Montreal including Laval and the South Shore is part of our regular Quebec delivery territory [VERIFY: exact coverage area]. Quebec City and points further east [VERIFY: Quebec City service and frequency] — call us with the postal code and we will confirm coverage and transit before you commit the freight.