Patterson Trans Inc. delivers refrigerated freight, full truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), and cross-docking services to businesses throughout Upland, California, known historically as the “City of Gracious Living,” 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 through this well-established Inland Empire community.
Freight That Fits Upland’s Character
Upland has always cultivated a reputation for quality — first with its citrus, now with the restaurants, specialty grocers, and small food-service businesses that line Foothill Boulevard and historic Euclid Avenue. Patterson Trans Inc. treats Upland accounts with that same attention to detail: fleet inspected on a strict preventive schedule, loads monitored in transit, and drivers who understand a small specialty grocer’s order deserves the same care as a full truckload account.
Family-owned for over 25 years, we offer full truckload, less-than-truckload, and cross-docking service throughout Upland, sized right for restaurants, specialty grocers, and small food-service businesses.
Foothill Land at the Edge of Tongva Territory
Upland sits at the northern edge of the same land the Chaffey brothers purchased from the old Rancho Cucamonga grant — territory originally home to the Tongva people, whose presence across this stretch of the valley predates every street, orchard, and boulevard that followed by centuries.
A Boulevard Planned Before Electricity Was Common
Upland began as the northern half of the Chaffey brothers’ Ontario Colony, and its identity has always centered on Euclid Avenue — a boulevard planned as a 200-foot-wide double drive with a landscaped center parkway. When residents in the colony’s northern section wanted their own local government, Upland broke off and incorporated separately in 1906, adopting a nickname the city still takes pride in: the “City of Gracious Living,” its own answer to a “Motor City”-style civic identity, built on quality orchards and community pride rather than industry.
The pepper trees that still shade parts of Euclid Avenue exist for a delightfully practical reason: when regional planners wanted to line these grand new boulevards with southern magnolias, they discovered the trees cost $2 each — real money in the 1880s — while pepper and eucalyptus saplings ran a nickel apiece. Budget won out over botany, and pepper trees became the signature look of Southern California’s citrus-era boulevards.
The pepper tree isn’t native to California at all — it originally comes from the Peruvian Andes.
Request a Quote for Upland Refrigerated Freight
Whether you’re a restaurant along Foothill Boulevard or a specialty grocer near Euclid Avenue, call Patterson Trans Inc. at (909) 367-2848 or request a free quote today.