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Peak-season capacity without the broker markup or the broken promises.

Retail distribution centres do not care about your carrier’s problems. The appointment window is the appointment window — miss it by 30 minutes and you are rescheduled if you are lucky, refused if you are not. Cross-border retail freight adds customs clearance to an already tight schedule, where a 90-minute border delay can cost the appointment outright.

Peak season makes everything worse. When every carrier’s trucks are committed and spot rates spike 30–40%, shippers who rely on brokers suddenly cannot find capacity — the trucks available last month are now covering higher-paying loads. That is when having your own carrier, with its own 200-tractor fleet, its own drivers, and a commitment to your freight, pays for itself.

Retail & CPG — Alpha Trans cross-border trucking

Retail & CPG

What you get

  • Appointment compliance. We plan backward from your DC appointment — factoring in border-crossing time, FAST versus standard lane, traffic, and a buffer — so the truck arrives on time because the schedule was built to make it happen.
  • Peak-season capacity. 200 company-owned tractors. We do not subcontract your freight during peak because our trucks got a better offer — your capacity is contracted, committed, and delivered.

Capabilities

How our retail & cpg works for you

LTL consolidation

Not every CPG shipment fills a truck. Our Brampton warehouse consolidates pallets from multiple shippers into full loads, so you get FTL pricing without FTL volume.

Cross-border retail compliance

CT-PAT and FAST certified with CARM-compliant procedures and electronic manifests filed before dispatch, so your freight clears the border on schedule and your DC scorecard stays intact.

Frequently asked questions

How do you hit tight DC appointment windows?

We schedule backward from the appointment time, accounting for border-crossing time, FAST versus standard lane, traffic, and a buffer. Because the plan is built around the window — and our drivers run familiar lanes — the truck arrives when it is supposed to.

Will my capacity hold during peak season?

Yes. With 200 company-owned tractors we do not subcontract your freight when spot rates spike. Contracted capacity is committed to you and does not disappear to a higher-paying load the way brokered capacity can.

Do you deliver to the major retail DCs?

We serve the major retail and grocery distribution networks across Canada and the US with the appointment discipline and documentation their compliance teams require, on both dry van and reefer equipment.

Can you consolidate smaller CPG shipments?

Our Brampton warehouse consolidates pallets from multiple shippers into full outbound loads, so you ship fewer trucks with fewer touches and get FTL-style pricing without needing full truckload volume yourself.

Do you handle both ambient and temperature-controlled retail freight?

Yes — 150 dry vans for general retail freight and 150 reefers for food, beverage, and temperature-sensitive CPG, all under the same carrier, the same dispatch, and one phone number.

Ready when you are

Quotes answered in under an hour. Dispatch answers 24/7.

No hold music, no call tree, no broker passing you along — a dispatcher who knows our fleet, our lanes, and your load.

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