Patterson Trans Inc. delivers refrigerated freight, full truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), and cross-docking services to businesses throughout Ontario, California, one of the most important logistics hubs in the Inland Empire and a close neighbor to our Fontana headquarters. With over 25 years of refrigerated transport experience and 60 years of combined team experience, our family-owned team is built to keep temperature-sensitive freight moving safely through one of the busiest distribution markets in the country.
Ontario Moves Faster Than Almost Anywhere in the Inland Empire
Between Ontario International Airport, a wall-to-wall concentration of e-commerce fulfillment centers, and aerospace and advanced manufacturing tenants, Ontario runs at a different speed than its neighbors. Because Patterson Trans Inc. is based minutes away in Fontana, we can respond same-day when an Ontario account needs a load moved faster than planned, with every trailer inspected on a strict preventive schedule and every load monitored in transit.
Family-owned for over 25 years, we run full truckload, less-than-truckload, and cross-docking service throughout Ontario’s warehouse and airport-adjacent districts, with a dispatch team that moves as fast as the city does.
A Name That Never Left
The Tongva (also known as Gabrielino) called this land home for centuries before Ontario existed, part of a network of roughly 100 villages spread across the Los Angeles Basin. Even the name “Cucamonga” — still used for the city next door — comes directly from the Tongva language, one of the few original place names that survived every wave of renaming that followed. When Mission San Gabriel arrived, it used the land that’s now Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga to graze mission cattle, the first step in converting Tongva territory into ranch land.
Built From Desert by Two Brothers From Canada
In August 1881, Canadian engineer George Chaffey looked out over what was then called the “Cucamonga Desert” and saw not wasteland, but a fortune waiting on water. He and his brother William bought 8,000 acres of the old Rancho Cucamonga grant, built a gravity-fed irrigation system, and named their new settlement Ontario after their home province back in Canada.
The centerpiece of their plan was Euclid Avenue — eight miles long, two hundred feet wide, named after the Greek mathematician Chaffey had loved in school. Ontario was designed as a “Model Colony” and planned from day one as a strictly dry town: no alcohol allowed. The Chaffeys later exported the same irrigation blueprint to found the town of Mildura, Australia.
George Chaffey planned an electric streetcar and street lamps spaced a mile apart along Euclid Avenue in the 1880s — decades ahead of most of the country.
Get a Quote for Ontario Refrigerated Freight
Whether you’re running freight through an Ontario Airport-adjacent facility or a distribution center near Ontario Mills, call Patterson Trans Inc. at (909) 367-2848 or request a free quote today.