Rideway shows that ISO isn’t out of reach
KITCHENER, Ont. (Feb. 2) — Rideway Transport Inc., a small regional truckload carrier based in Kitchener, Ont., has shown that you don’t have to be big to take the ISO option. It recently achieved ISO 9002 registration, one of only a few smaller carriers in Canada to do so.
Rideway is a family owned operation running 30 tractors and over 100 48- and 53-foot dry vans. The company’s main emphasis is the Michigan-Ontario market, serving the packaging and automotive sector.
Company president Tom Brooke says that on-time service levels have been consistently high even without the ISO effort, but that “this process will ensure continual improvements in all aspects of the company’s administrative and operational procedures.” Rideway moves over 10,500 loads per year with an on-time delivery rate of 96.7%.
Brooke launched the company in 1993. Among his prior achievements, as president of Frederick Transport in 1987, he was the first fleet excutive in North America to equip his trucks with satellite communications.
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