Downers Grove, Illinois-based Roadrunner, announced recently it is expanding its LTL service to Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and the surrounding areas of Canada. The move follows the launch of LTL shipping into Toronto and Montreal earlier this year. The new LTL service into western Canada will be available for all its origin locations that ship freight to Seattle.
"Our customers have repeatedly asked us to complement our eastern and central Canada offering to include the west,” said Tomasz Jamroz, chief operating Officer at Roadrunner. “We are playing into our strengths in these markets, and we are able to provide the service, quality, and on-time LTL experience our customers now expect from Roadrunner.”
The company said as the consolidation point for this new service, Seattle is one of Roadrunner’s strongest terminals, highlighted by its recent win of Season II of the Operations Performance League contest. The OPL is a year-long daily competition among all of Roadrunner’s 40 plus brick-and-mortar locations that get judged on Key Performance Indicators or KPIs. These KPIs include more than 20 metrics such as service quality, operational efficiency, loading with care, and data accuracy, according to the company.
“Our smart network keeps expanding with service to Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver,” said Ryan Schelb, Vice President of Network Strategy and Expansion at Roadrunner. “We use data and analytics to analyze which markets we are opening next to provide the best long-haul LTL service. The service to Western Canada will benefit immensely from having Seattle as our launching point, since our metro-to-metro network is so unique in the LTL world.”
