QRC Logistics - 1978 Ltd.

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QRC Logistics - 1978 Ltd.

Overnight courier, LTL and truckload service within the Greater Toronto Area, as far west as Windsor, as far north as Barrie and as far east as Kingston.

Our customers depend on us to deliver their shipments, to the time constraints promised, throughout the Greater Toronto and surrounding areas (Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Pickering, Burlington, Hamilton, Oakville, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and London). We take pride in our on time performance and are constantly seeking ways to improve our overall quality of service. From courteous and knowledgeable

customer service, to accurate billing, to ongoing investments in shipment visibility technologies… we are committed to being a transportation provider you can always count on. Our core service continues to be answering the time-sensitive delivery requirements of our customers. High value goods, fashion, cosmetics and electronics are just a few of the retail and consumer orientated goods we transport on a daily basis. Our fleet of 5 ton straight trucks are equipped with tailgate delivery systems to effectively load and unload your skidded freight when dock level doors are not available. We can navigate tighter city pickup and delivery conditions where traditional tractor trailers would not be able to serve your requirements. Where larger, multiple skid shipments are required and dock level access is available, we have tractor trailers available for your truckload and partial truckload shipments. Our warehousing and distribution centre allows us to provide cross docking and short and long-term storage as an added convenience to handle our customers’ everyday requirements and seasonal volume surges. In addition, we can provide third party brokerage service to minimize the amount of carriers you need to manage. We currently have customers that rely on us for LTL and truckload service on a coast to coast basis. We also provide reverse logistics for returns that are required to go back to Canadian and USA manufacturing plants. We arrange a total solution for our customers wherever it is possible.

09/01/2026

Your TMS is tracking everything. Your Canadian 3PL is not.

Freight forwarders have invested heavily in technology. TMS platforms. EDI integrations. Real-time dashboards that give their clients live visibility into every leg of the shipment.

And then the container crosses into Canada and the screen goes dark.

A phone call to the Canadian 3PL. A manual update three days later. A delivery status they find out about from their client, not from their partner.

The technology you built on your side means nothing if the Canadian partner on the other side is running on spreadsheets and phone calls.

At QRC, our WMS and TMS infrastructure was built to integrate with yours. Real-time inventory tracking. Online POD access the moment a delivery is signed. Daily shipping and inventory reports without being asked. EDI integrations with major ecommerce portals that keep your data and ours on the same page, all the time.

When your freight enters our facility, you see it. When it moves, you see it. When it is delivered, the signed POD is available online before the driver leaves the dock.

That is not a technology feature. That is what accountability looks like when it is built into the system instead of chased down on a phone call.

✔️ Real-time WMS and TMS visibility
✔️ Online POD access on every delivery
✔️ Daily shipping and inventory reporting
✔️ EDI integrations with major ecommerce portals
✔️ CIFFA member, PIP-approved, Canadian-owned since 1978

Call 1-800-430-7874 or visit https://qrclogistics.com/freight-forwarders/ and ask us to show you exactly what your Canadian visibility looks like before you commit to a single shipment.

08/26/2026

Q4 is five weeks away. Does your Canadian final-mile program run without Canada Post?

December 2024 answered that question for every US 3PL who had not asked it yet.

Seventeen days. No deliveries. No backup. No answer for clients who needed product on retail floors during the single most important commercial window of the year.

The US 3PLs who came through that strike without a client crisis all had one thing in common. Their Canadian partner owned their own fleet.

Not a brokered network. Not a Canada Post account with a backup carrier they had never used. An asset-based Canadian operation with private routes running every day regardless of what any Crown corporation decided to do.

Q4 is not the time to find out your Canadian program has a single point of failure.

At QRC Logistics we are asset-based. We own our trucks. We run our routes. We have operated our own Ontario delivery network every single day since 1978 and we have never missed a client commitment due to a carrier strike.

Here is what a Canada Post-independent Canadian program looks like inside our partner structure.
✔️ Private fleet running daily Ontario final-mile routes, fully owned and operated
✔️ 98.9% on-time delivery backed by our own drivers and equipment
✔️ Same-day, overnight, and 3-hour rush service levels on our own network
✔️ 300,000 sq ft Halton Hills staging facility one minute off the 401
✔️ Real-time POD reporting so you and your client see every delivery as it happens
✔️ 48 years of uninterrupted Canadian operations behind every program we run

Peak season starts in five weeks.

Build your Canadian program on a foundation that does not have an off switch.

Call 1-800-430-7874 or visit the link to see how the Canada 3PL Partner program works.

👉 https://qrclogistics.com/canada-3pl-partner/
📧 [email protected]

08/25/2026

You built the relationship. Your 3PL has the contacts. Think about that.

Your Canadian 3PL knows what your client ships, where they ship it, how often, and who to call. They have that information because you trusted them with it.

Without a written non-solicitation commitment, the only thing stopping them from using it is their goodwill.

Goodwill is not a contract.

Here is how it plays out. A freight forwarder brings their Canadian partner into a client meeting to build confidence. The 3PL now has a name, a relationship, and direct knowledge of the account. Six months later they approach that client directly with a rate. The client takes the meeting. The forwarder loses the account.

No law broken. No promise made. Just access used against the relationship that gave it.

At QRC, the written non-solicitation commitment comes standard. Every freight forwarder partner receives it before the first shipment moves. No exceptions.

Your clients are your clients. That is not a policy we created because someone asked. It is a position we hold because a partner who would do otherwise is not a partner.

✔️ Written non-solicitation commitment, every partner
✔️ Provided before the first shipment moves
✔️ 100% independent, no LSP affiliations
✔️ CIFFA member, PIP-approved
✔️ Canadian-owned since 1978

Ask your current Canadian partner to put it in writing today. If they hesitate, call us at 1-800-430-7874.
We have it ready.
https://qrclogistics.com/freight-forwarders/

08/24/2026

Cargo theft losses across Canada and the United States rose 60 percent in 2025. The total reached an estimated 725 million dollars.

Ontario had its own bad year. The province logged more than 1,600 cargo theft incidents in 2025. The Greater Toronto Area ranked as the country's top hotspot.

If you ship freight in Ontario, that is not background noise. It is a direct question that every shipper needs to answer. 👇

Do you actually know who is driving your freight between pickup and delivery?

The method behind most of these schemes is not a smash-and-grab. It is identity fraud. The FBI documented cyber actors breaking into broker and carrier email accounts, then posting fake listings on load boards. Shippers hand freight to thieves instead of the carrier they thought they hired.

Équité Association documented a related pattern: criminals assuming a legitimate carrier's identity or fabricating one from scratch to book a load through an online broker or a direct shipper call.

Most of these schemes need an intermediary somewhere in the chain to insert themselves. The longer the chain, the more places fraud can enter.

Here is what that means in practical terms for Ontario shippers:

✔️ With a direct asset-based carrier, one company owns the trucks and holds the freight from pickup to delivery. One point of contact. One insurance policy. One dispatch team.
✔️ With a brokered load, your contact may not be the company physically holding your freight when something goes wrong. That gap matters most right when you need it least.
✔️ Unauthorized re-brokering makes it worse. When a carrier takes a load with no plan to haul it themselves and hands it to a second carrier the shipper never approved, you may not know who is driving your freight in real time.

We just published a full breakdown of cargo theft in Ontario, including how the fraud works, how the three carrier models compare on custody and liability, nine questions to ask before you book any load, and how QRC handles each one.

If you have ever booked a load without asking who is physically driving it, this article is worth your time.

👉 https://qrclogistics.com/cargo-theft-ontario-carrier-vs-broker/
📞 905-791-9004
📧 [email protected]

08/19/2026

A full truckload held at the border for four days. Because the Canadian partner got the CARM documentation wrong.

Cross-border customs compliance between Canada and the US has never been more complex.

CARM rewrote the importer of record liability rules. US 3PLs managing Canadian imports for clients are navigating a compliance environment their Canadian partner may not fully understand. And when the documentation is wrong, the freight does not move. Your client asks questions you cannot answer. And the relationship takes a hit nobody budgeted for.

At QRC Logistics cross-border compliance is built into how we have operated for 48 years.

✔️ PIP-approved warehouse at 8020 Fifth Line North, Halton Hills
✔️ Customs paperwork management for cross-border movements
✔️ Consolidated entry capability to reduce per-shipment customs cost
✔️ CARM-aware operations team that understands the current liability rules
✔️ 24-hour cross-dock operations so freight keeps moving after it clears
✔️ Documented security procedures for high-value and compliance-sensitive freight

Your client's product should not be sitting at the border because of a documentation error.

Call 1-800-430-7874 or visit the link to see how we handle cross-border compliance inside the Canada 3PL Partner program.

👉 https://qrclogistics.com/canada-3pl-partner/
📧 [email protected]

08/18/2026

48 years is not a milestone. It is the proof.

Any Canadian 3PL can put together a rate card. Any carrier can claim 98% on-time on a website and hope nobody asks to see the data.

What cannot be faked is 48 years of freight forwarder accounts that came back.

QRC Logistics was founded in 1978 by Rick Mutiger as a single-truck retail cartage operation in Southern Ontario. The business grew because the clients who trusted us with the first shipment trusted us with the next one. For nearly five decades.

James Drew, Rick's stepson, runs the business today. Same family. Same standard. The same 9 AM appointment window that has mattered since 1978.

Here is what 48 years in this business actually looks like on the ground.

Drivers with an average of 10 years on their core routes. They know which docks open early, which receiving managers need a call ahead, and which roads close in February before the alert goes out.

A 300,000 sq ft facility that has absorbed peak seasons, strikes, weather events, and market disruptions without missing a client delivery commitment.

98.9% on-time. Not because we installed better software last quarter. Because we have been refining the same operations in the same market for 48 years.

The next 3PL you evaluate will have a better website.

They will not have 48 years of freight forwarder accounts that came back.
✔️ Founded 1978, family-owned and Canadian
✔️ 98.9% on-time delivery across Southern Ontario
✔️ 10-year average driver tenure on core routes
✔️ 300,000 sq ft, 15 min from Toronto Pearson
✔️ CIFFA member, PIP-approved

Call 1-800-430-7874 or visit https://qrclogistics.com/freight-forwarders/ and ask us what 48 years looks like for your specific Canadian program.

08/17/2026

Call by 3 PM today. Delivered by 5 PM tomorrow. Here is exactly how that works.

If you ship LTL freight across Ontario and you have ever needed something there the next business day, the 3 PM cutoff is the number worth knowing. 👇

At QRC Logistics, overnight LTL works on a single cutoff. Call the order desk by 3 PM with five details and your palletized freight is collected that afternoon, processed overnight through our 300,000 sq ft Halton Hills hub, and delivered by 5 PM the next business day on eligible Ontario lanes.

The five details that confirm the lane on the first call:

✔️ Pickup and delivery postal codes
✔️ Pallet count, dimensions, and weight per skid
✔️ Dock or tailgate access at both ends
✔️ The time your receiver needs the freight
✔️ Any appointment or labeling requirement

Those five details decide which truck goes out and what the shipment costs. Without them we can describe a range, not a rate.

A few things worth knowing before you book:

The 3 PM cutoff is not a suggestion. It exists so the truck can reach your dock, return to the hub, and have freight sorted onto the right outbound run before morning dispatch. A call after the cutoff normally goes into the following day's cycle.

You can also book a set arrival window at 9 AM, noon, or 5 PM if your receiver needs freight at a specific time, not just the next business day.

If your shipment is urgent today, same-day service is available for orders called in by 11 AM, delivered by 5 PM the same business day. Three-hour service is available for orders that cannot wait.

Retail freight with appointment windows, ASN requirements, and retailer-specific labeling is handled as part of the move. Flag those requirements at booking so the schedule and rate reflect them from the start.

We just published the full breakdown of how QRC overnight LTL works in Ontario, step by step, including what happens at each stage and where timing can change.

👉 https://qrclogistics.com/how-qrc-logistics-overnight-ltl-works/
📞 905-791-9004
📧 [email protected]

08/12/2026

Three doors got product two days late. The client withheld 30% of the fee.

Not because of a delivery failure. Because the Canadian partner had never run a national hold-and-release program at that scale and nobody had asked them to prove it before the launch.

National Canadian launch programs are where Canadian 3PLs get separated from the ones who can actually deliver.

Staging capacity. Per-door allocation discipline. Coast-to-coast co-ordination. Real-time flex when a door's window shifts 36 hours before go-live.

QRC Logistics has executed national hold-and-release programs with some of the most demanding launch windows in the Canadian market.

✔️ 78 retail locations delivered within a three-day launch window, documented
✔️ 300,000 sq ft Halton Hills staging facility for large pre-launch inventory
✔️ Per-door allocation management with systems discipline at every step
✔️ Coast-to-coast partner network co-ordinated for simultaneous launch delivery
✔️ Real-time program status reporting throughout the launch window
✔️ Operational experience managing last-minute scheduling changes without missing the window

Q4 Canadian launch programs are being confirmed right now.

Your client's launch has one date. Make sure your Canadian partner has done this before.

Call 1-800-430-7874 or visit the link to talk about how we structure hold-and-release programs for US 3PL partners.

👉 https://qrclogistics.com/GetStarted/
📧 [email protected]

08/11/2026

Your Canadian logistics network has a single point of failure. You just have not found it yet.

Single-carrier dependence in Canada looks like a solution right up until it stops being one. The carrier with no backup routing. The warehouse at capacity during your peak season. The driver who knows your retail accounts and is not available on the one morning it matters most.

These are not hypothetical scenarios. They are the exact situations freight forwarders describe when they call us after losing an account.

At QRC, we built redundancy into the foundation.

Asset-based fleet with owner-operators averaging 10 years on core routes. 300,000 sq ft of facility capacity. Canada-wide partner network for extended coverage. 24/7 operations with no shift gaps. 98.9% on-time delivery.

Your Canadian program should be able to absorb a disruption without your client ever knowing it happened.

✔️ Asset-based fleet, not brokered
✔️ 10-year average driver tenure on core routes
✔️ 300,000 sq ft, 15 min from Toronto Pearson
✔️ Canada-wide partner network
✔️ CIFFA member, PIP-approved, Canadian-owned since 1978

Call 1-800-430-7874 or visit https://qrclogistics.com/freight-forwarders/ before the weak link finds you first.

08/10/2026

Your receiver just rejected the load. It is 4 PM. Who are you calling?

This is the question that separates a carrier from a vendor. And the answer is different depending on which model your freight is running through. 👇

With a national LTL network, you call a toll-free line. You open a ticket. You wait your turn behind every other shipper having a hard afternoon. The person who answers does not know your freight, does not know your lane, and does not have a truck nearby to fix it before the day ends.

With a regional Ontario LTL carrier, you call a dispatcher who already knows your lane, your receiver, and the dock quirks. They can move a truck before the day ends because the truck is already in the region.

Every carrier looks fine when the shipment goes through clean. You find out who you hired when something breaks.

That is what this image shows. Real operations. Real forklifts. Real people moving real freight out of a real loading dock. Not a network of terminals you will never see.

At QRC Logistics we run our own trucks out of our 300,000 sq ft Halton Hills hub. One team. One dispatcher. One number to call.

We just published a full comparison of regional Ontario LTL vs national carrier models, including when each model wins, a freight profile matching table, and the questions to ask any carrier before you sign.

The checklist alone is worth the read. Run it on your current carrier and see how they score.

👉 https://qrclogistics.com/regional-ontario-ltl-vs-national-carrier/
📞 905-791-9004
📧 [email protected]

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