Mainfreight, a logistics provider serving US-Canadian trade, is expanding its trucking service between the two nations.

The company is adding equipment and personnel to its nightly service between the US Northeast and Toronto with continuing service to other major cities in Canada.

In announcing the expanded service, Craig Meador, Mainfreight's Director of Canadian Business Development, stated, "despite a sharp recession in both nations, customers are responding to our rapid, reliable overnight service between Philadelphia, Newark and Toronto.' Mainfreight has been fortunate in not only retaining current customers but adding new ones."

Meador emphasized that Mainfreight's service is dedicated. "Our trucks move whatever the volume.' We are adding runs while our competition is dropping them."' He said that heavy equipment, fashion, automotive and aircraft parts, to name a few industries, are being aided by Mainfreight's expanded services.

The forwarder is adding a "rounder" service with a dedicated truck that originates in Toronto on a Tuesday evening, arriving in Newark/New York the next morning then returning to Toronto on Thursday morning.' Mainfreight also provides overnight service to Toronto from Chicago.

"Customers who depend on consistent, overnight surface transportation between the US and Canada are giving Mainfreight enthusiastic support," he averred.

The Canadian Director noted that Mainfreight has an exclusive agreement with Sameday Worldwide, a subsidiary of Day & Ross, one of Canada's largest trucking firms.' Day & Ross itself is owned by McCain Foods, one of Canada's largest private corporations with an annual volume of more than $5 billion.' Sameday Worldwide has some 36 offices in the principal cities of Canada.' It allows rapid, seamless service from Toronto to any region in Canada; from British Columbia in the West to the Maritime Provinces in the East.

Meador commented that the new service is not only a response to customers' needs today, but to that inevitable time when the economies of both nations snap back.' "We are making an investment in the future," concluded Mainfreight's Director of Canadian Business Development.