Patterson Trans Inc. delivers refrigerated freight, full truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), and cross-docking services to businesses throughout Rancho Cucamonga, California, one of the fastest-growing cities 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 keeps temperature-sensitive freight moving safely across this rapidly developing market.
Retail and Restaurant Freight in a Fast-Growing City
Rancho Cucamonga’s growth has been driven by retail and residential development — Victoria Gardens, the restaurants and grocers that followed it, and the neighborhoods expanding along Foothill Boulevard. We treat every account with that same urgency: trailers inspected on a strict preventive maintenance schedule, loads monitored in transit, and a dispatch team that plans around the delivery windows restaurants and grocers actually need.
Family-owned for over 25 years, Patterson Trans Inc. offers full truckload, less-than-truckload, and cross-docking service throughout Rancho Cucamonga, built around the delivery windows that matter to retail and food-service businesses.
A Tongva Word That Became a City’s Name
“Cucamonga” is itself a Tongva place name, one of the original words that survived Spanish, Mexican, and American rule alike — a rare thread connecting the modern city directly back to the people who lived here first. Mission San Gabriel later used this land to graze mission cattle, folding Tongva territory into the ranching economy that would define the valley for the next century.
Bigger Than Napa and Sonoma Combined
In 1839, Tiburcio Tapia received the Rancho Cucamonga land grant from the Mexican government and planted a vineyard that would eventually make this valley famous. It sounds unbelievable today, but before World War II, the hills around Rancho Cucamonga held more than 27,000 acres of grapevines — making western San Bernardino County the single largest wine-grape growing region in America, larger than Napa and Sonoma combined. Rancher John Rains expanded on that legacy starting in 1859, planting 175,000 vines across 320 acres.
By the 1940s the area supported more than 60 working wineries, including Secondo Guasti’s Italian Vineyard Company, once among the largest wine producers in the state. Urban development eventually paved over most of the old vineyards, but a small winemaking revival is underway today. The modern city of Rancho Cucamonga wasn’t incorporated until 1977, formed by merging three older communities: Alta Loma, Cucamonga, and Etiwanda.
Some of the original 19th-century grapevines planted around Rancho Cucamonga are still alive and producing fruit today.
Get a Quote for Rancho Cucamonga Refrigerated Freight
Whether you’re a restaurant near Victoria Gardens or a grocer along Foothill Boulevard, call Patterson Trans Inc. at (909) 367-2848 or request a free quote today.