Flatbed trucking in Toronto: 80 trucks and 140 trailers, next day

Toronto at a glance

Flatbed shipping Toronto: what moves on our trucks

Flatbed shipping in Toronto is mostly steel, machinery and building products, and a load picked up in the city can deliver next day anywhere within 500 miles of the GTA. Coil and plate out of steel service centres. Machinery and dies out of machine shops and plants. Structural steel, rebar and building products going to jobsites. Palletized product goes in a Conestoga. Long steel usually goes on an open flatbed, and a crane can load either one. The full steel order, plate to pipe, is on our steel hauling in Ontario page.

Imported steel for the east side of the GTA comes off the ship at the Port of Oshawa, about 60 km east on the 401 in Durham, and at the Port of Hamilton. US port steel for Toronto plants moves in bond under our own US Customs bond.

Where the trucks go in the city

Etobicoke and the airport corridor are the closest to the yard. North York and Scarborough are a run across the top of the city on the 401. Downtown jobsites come in off the Gardiner or the Don Valley Parkway. Our trucks are in the city every working day.

North of the 401, see North York, Vaughan and York Region. West of the 427, see Mississauga, and for Peel's other industrial parks see trucking companies in Brampton. Toronto loads run the same lanes as every GTA pickup: Hamilton and Peel, west on the 401 to Windsor, the US through Detroit or Buffalo, and Quebec and Western Canada. See Ontario flatbed trucking and cross border. The whole company is on our Ontario trucking company page.

Toronto industries that ship on flatbeds

Etobicoke and the airport corridor are metal fabrication and machine shops. North York and Scarborough are steel service centres, auto parts and building products. The Port Lands and downtown are structural steel, rebar and site equipment going to jobsites. The Junction and the Stockyards area are building supply yards. All of it loads from the side or the top by crane or forklift, which is why it rides on a flatbed or in a Conestoga and not in a dry van.

Jobsite deliveries in the city

Give dispatch the site address, gate hours, site contact and crane or forklift window when you book. The window goes on the dispatch board with the load. The driver calls the site before arriving. If the site isn't ready when the truck gets there, dispatch calls you and you decide what the truck does next.

Downtown sites are tight. If the street or the laneway can't take a 53 ft trailer, say so when you book and tell dispatch how the freight is loaded, and they send a trailer that fits.

Oversize loads on Toronto streets

In Ontario, anything wider than 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) needs a permit. In Toronto that means two: an MTO permit for the provincial highways and a City of Toronto permit for the streets between the highway and the site. We arrange both and use local escorts when the width calls for one. Send the dimensions and the weight with the quote request and dispatch checks the route before pricing it. See oversize and overdimensional.

A load can be legal width and still too heavy for a tandem. Steel or an ingot order like that can ride 1 of our 6 axle units at up to 86,000 lb inside Ontario, so an order that often takes 2 tandems moves on 1 truck with 1 crane window.

Why Toronto shippers use us

• Our yard is in Mississauga, just west of the city, so a Toronto pickup is a short deadhead.
• Every tractor runs live GPS. Ask for a Samsara tracking link and dispatch sends it.
• Dispatch answers 24 hours.

How to book a Toronto load

1. Send the pickup address and the receiver. For a jobsite, add the site contact, gate hours and the crane or forklift window.
2. Tell us the commodity, the weight, how it loads, and the dimensions if anything is tall or wide.
3. Give the date the freight is ready.
4. We quote within 1 business hour, 7 am to 5 pm ET, Monday to Friday, and name the trailer with the price.
5. Confirm, and the load goes on the dispatch board.

Request a quote, or call dispatch at (905) 799 7900, press 1, 24 hours.

Picking a trucking company in Toronto

The hard part of a Toronto delivery is usually the gate, not the highway: a tight dock, a crane booked for one hour, a site with no forklift. When you compare trucking companies in Toronto, ask how they handle that. The planning around the truck, appointments, tracking and border paperwork, is on our logistics company in Mississauga page.

Here is how we do it. Dispatch takes the site contact, gate hours and crane window when you book, and the driver calls ahead. Tell dispatch what has to stay dry, how the site lifts and what the dock can take, and dispatch names the trailer: a Conestoga for freight that has to stay dry, an open flatbed when the crane wants an open deck, a step deck for tall pieces. You can watch the truck come in on a Samsara link. If something changes overnight, a dispatcher answers at (905) 799 7900, press 1.

Flatbed trucking companies in Toronto: how to compare

Most flatbed trucking companies in Toronto quote the same highways. The differences show up at the gate, on the trailer and after the load delivers. Ask any carrier these 6 questions. Our answers are beside each one.

1. Does the carrier run its own trucks? Fission runs its own fleet of 80 trucks and 140 trailers under its own authority, dispatched from Mississauga, so the dispatcher who quotes the load is the one who knows where the truck is.
2. Which trailer will the load ride on? We run Conestogas, open flatbeds, step decks, double drops and 4 and 6 axle units, and dispatch names the trailer with the quote instead of sending whatever is free.
3. How are coil and machinery secured? Coil rides in coil racks on timbers with chains through the eye and edge protectors under every chain, to a written procedure that meets or exceeds NSC Standard 10. Machinery is chained at the lifting or tie down points and blocked front and rear, with rubber belting under chains on finished surfaces.
4. What is the cross border status? CTPAT validated, PIP, FAST and CSA approved. Dispatch files ACE and ACI on every cross border load, and US port steel moves to Ontario in bond under Fission's own US Customs bond.
5. How are jobsite windows handled? The crane or forklift window goes on the dispatch board with the load, the driver calls the site before arriving, and if the site isn't ready dispatch calls you and you decide what the truck does next.
6. Can you watch the truck? Every tractor runs Samsara live GPS. Ask for the tracking link and dispatch sends it.

Questions shippers ask

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