Industries We Serve

No two shippers move freight the same way, which is why Patterson Trans Inc. built a service model flexible enough to support a wide range of industries across Fontana, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ontario, and Rancho Cucamonga. Below is a closer look at who we work with and what each industry needs most from a refrigerated carrier — backed by over 25 years of experience and 60 years of combined team knowledge in the Inland Empire. From full truckload (FTL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) to cross-docking, every service we offer is built around the same standard, whether the freight needs a reefer trailer or not.

Food & Beverage

Food distributors throughout Fontana and the Inland Empire rely on us for fresh and packaged goods that need precise temperature control and tight delivery windows timed to retail restocking schedules. Beverage shippers bring their own weight and handling considerations, and we load and secure every trailer properly to protect both the product and the freight around it. Whether it’s a single pallet moving LTL to a San Bernardino distributor or a full truckload running a recurring lane into Riverside, our drivers understand that a missed window at a grocery dock doesn’t just cost time — it can cost a customer their shelf space.

Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical companies trust us with cold chain integrity, chain-of-custody documentation, and the regulatory compliance their products demand from pickup to final delivery. A lapse in temperature control isn’t just a spoiled load here — it can mean a failed compliance audit, which is why our drivers are trained specifically for this level of handling. We work with healthcare and pharmaceutical suppliers across Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga who need a carrier that treats every degree of variance as a serious problem, not an inconvenience, and our dispatch team monitors every pharma load in transit for exactly that reason.

Agriculture & Produce

Agriculture and produce shippers across the Inland Empire count on our cold chain expertise to protect product quality from farm to shelf. This has been one of our specialties since day one, and it’s reflected in how our fleet is maintained and how our routes are planned around harvest and delivery timing. We run dedicated produce lanes — including fresh lettuce and packaged salads for regional distributors — where consistency matters more than almost anything else, because a delayed reefer trailer full of fresh produce has a shelf life measured in hours, not days.

Electronics & High Value Goods

Electronics manufacturers need careful handling and secure loading for components that have to arrive market-ready. We treat high-value freight with the same discipline as temperature-sensitive freight — secure, monitored, and handled by drivers trained to take it seriously. Climate-controlled trailers protect sensitive components from heat and humidity swings during transit through the Inland Empire, and our security protocols mean high-value shipments are tracked from the moment they leave the dock until the moment they’re signed for.

Retail & E-Commerce

Retail and e-commerce operations depend on inventory moving reliably between distribution centers, warehouses, and stores. With Ontario’s major fulfillment hub nearby, we understand the pace and precision this sector demands — tight appointment windows, high-frequency runs, and zero tolerance for a missed dock time during peak season. Whether it’s cross-docking inventory between two Inland Empire warehouses or running a scheduled route to a Rancho Cucamonga fulfillment center, we build our scheduling around retail’s unforgiving calendar.

Grocery & Distribution

Grocery and distribution businesses benefit from our cross-docking capabilities, which let incoming shipments move straight onto outbound trailers at scale without temperature control ever slipping — speed and consistency at a volume smaller operations don’t need. We serve grocery distributors throughout San Bernardino, Riverside, and the surrounding Inland Empire with the kind of dock-schedule familiarity that only comes from being local, not routed in by a national carrier that’s never seen the facility.

Manufacturing & Building Materials

Manufacturing and building materials companies rely on the same FTL and LTL consistency that keeps their production and project schedules on track, even when the freight itself isn’t temperature-sensitive. A dedicated trailer, a trained driver, the same on-time standard as every load. Fontana and the greater Inland Empire have a substantial manufacturing base, and we’ve built relationships with shippers who need dry van and general freight capacity alongside our refrigerated service — one carrier for the whole operation instead of juggling multiple vendors.

General Dry Commodities

Not every shipment needs refrigeration, and we handle general dry commodities with the same reliability and communication that defines our cold chain service — no separate standard for freight that doesn’t need a reefer trailer. Our dispatch team gives dry-freight customers the same visibility and honest updates that our pharmaceutical and produce clients expect, because the standard we hold ourselves to doesn’t change based on what’s inside the trailer.

Why a Local Fontana Carrier Matters

National carriers route freight through regional hubs and hand it off between drivers who have never seen your dock. Patterson Trans Inc. is different — we’re based right here in Fontana, which means the driver picking up your load and the dispatcher tracking it are both local to the Inland Empire, not coordinating from another state. That local knowledge shows up in the details that matter: knowing which San Bernardino warehouses have narrow dock approaches, which Riverside distribution centers run tight appointment windows, and which routes through Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga avoid the worst of rush-hour freeway congestion. For industries where a missed window or a broken cold chain has real financial consequences — grocery, pharmaceutical, produce, electronics — that local familiarity is the difference between a carrier who moves your freight and a partner who protects your business.

Get a Quote

Call Patterson Trans Inc. at (909) 367-2848 or request a free quote to see how we can support your industry.