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Andy Balij, PresidentThough these are key players in ensuring smooth shipping operations, interactions with numerous stakeholders for effectively managing the touch points and providing timely deliveries often lead to immense complexity. To avoid these issues, shippers need an all-in-one container shipment management company that can overcome the hassles caused by multiple parties and various transit issues.
As a premier transport company, Musket Transport fits the bill.
Musket Transport is a family-owned asset-based company with a presence across the Montreal to Toronto and the Northeastern U.S. to Toronto corridors. Following the acquisition of Melburn Truck Lines Corp in 1999, Musket Transport emerged as one of the most reputed intermodal trucking companies, with a core focus on the ocean container division. With 30 years of industry experience, the company has become an expert service provider in container, dry/van, refrigerated van, and third-party logistics divisions to ensure that all shipments of clients reach their destinations as requested.
“With strong industry expertise, we are capable of delivering in-house equipment and support to clients throughout the entire container shipping journey. Our support, personalized service approach, and industry expertise set us apart from competitors in the industry. We provide clients with improved transportation solutions and services that help them achieve and maintain their position as industry leaders,” says Andy Balij, president, Musket Transport.
Offering both intermodal trucking and domestic/van freight services, Musket Transport acts as a premier carrier within Ontario, providing pickup and delivery service to and from Canadian and U.S. ports and railways for domestic intermodal and international ocean containers. The company runs multiple 20’ and 40’ containers to and from the port of Montreal and New Jersey/New York daily. Its fleet of 40 trucks is dedicated to pickups and deliveries in Toronto/GTA, with over 300 highway trucks transporting containers along the eastern seaboard. It also has a dedicated fleet of 60 local trucks to perform local pickup and deliveries and container drayage with trailers and chassis/ containers on the intermodal division. The company has 350 x 53’ air ride dry van logistics and another 20 x 53’ refrigerated trailers, with 100 more dry vans and 25 more refrigerated Vans on order for the first quarter of 2023. These extensive amenities make Musket Transport one of the largest intermodal trucking companies serving the Great Lakes states, the Midwest, and the Northeastern U.S. The company can also support clients with over 600 intermodal container chassis, room for 9,000 intermodal containers in its yards in the GTA, outside and inside storage warehousing, a cross-dock facility, and a logistics department.
A major aspect of Musket Transport’s innovation is its unique software solution, a consistent and dependable interface for fulfilling all client transportation requirements. It seamlessly integrates with clients’ existing systems and allows them to directly schedule any pickup or delivery via Musket Transport’s terminal and receive immediate confirmation. This negates the hassle of going through manual processes, including constant faxes and phone calls to get a confirmation on their shipments.
The company also provides CTPAT-certified yards and terminals to securely store shipments. It also provides stellar maintenance services for trucks, trailers, and containers, with 24/7 fleet repair performed by licensed mechanics. In addition, all of Musket Transport’s terminals are fully gated, having video surveillance and 24/7 security guards on-site.
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Our support, personalized service approach, and industry expertise set us apart from competitors in the industry. We provide clients with improved transportation solutions and services that help them achieve and maintain their position as industry leaders.
Keeping the innovation streak alive, Musket Transport has implemented many EDI procedures throughout its intermodal or over-the-road (OTR) processes, allowing clients to save time and money. Specific shipping-related EDIs were developed that enable it to offer live updates to clients as their loads are delivered. These also help streamline vendor and third-party carrier assignments, eliminating long wait times for approvals.
Musket Transport translates its core philosophy of personalization from the initial stages of client engagement. The company conducts periodic visits and has regular conversations with clients to discuss their ongoing issues. Following this interaction, it provides the required knowledge, expertise, and equipment to help clients ship their items on time. It also offers high-quality driver’s training via its in-house driving school to graduate industry-recognized Canadian AZ and DZ commercial drivers for intermodal and OTR routes.
Musket Transport continues to develop new programs and procedures within the industry, including building EDI platforms and reporting tools to meet client needs. The company has expanded its outreach to include six diverse service facilities from Mississauga to Burlington. It plans to diversify and invest in new equipment and technology to grow its fleet and meet the specific demands of clients.
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Musket Transport
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Andy Balij, President
Description
As Ontario’s premier transport company, Musket provides service to US highway, local, and inter-provincial customers. Musket has been serving North American companies for over 25 years, providing the confidence of knowing their products will get where they need to go anywhere in North America.
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CHET expands with Burlington, Ont.’s first truck driver training school
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CHET, a subsidiary of Musket Transport, has been operating out of Mississauga, Ont., since 1997.
The Burlington campus in the Halton Region west of the Greater Toronto Area sits in Musket’s premises which house its refrigerator division, providing training for drivers in a busy working environment.
Sophia Sniegowski Begidzhanov, Musket Transport’s corporate communication officer, said it is the first time the company has expanded into a new area. “It opens the surrounding areas where there’s a lot of target demographics for us that we want to provide training for,” she said. “That’s youth, Indigenous communities, veterans and women.”
The facility includes advanced simulators, projectors, dedicated training yards, and modern classrooms.
Andy Balij, president and CEO of Musket Transport, noted a lot of commercial trucking has shifted and more will shift to the west of Toronto. “It puts us in a geographic area that is advantageous,” he said.
He added that CHET provides Musket with the pick of the crop of well-trained drivers and the benefit of the first right of refusal.
Specialized training
Besides training new drivers, the facility also provides specialized training on tanker trailers, B-train chassis, and Rocky Mountain doubles – a combination vehicle consisting of a tractor, a 45- to 48-foot trailer and a shorter 28-foot trailer.
Sniegowski Begidzhanov said corporate training services for other fleets are also being offered. CHET also conducts pre-employment road tests for drivers.
Sandra Graham, CHET’s operations manager, said she’ll start out with three or four instructors and soon intends to employ eight to nine trainers at the new facility. Training will be provided on 10 trucks with manual and automatic transmissions and loaded trailers.