Freight loads in Toronto, ranked for your truck.
The GTA is Canada's largest freight market — and Haulor is built in it. Find AI-ranked loads out of Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, and Vaughan, posted by verified brokers and matched to your equipment and lanes.
Where Toronto freight actually moves
Toronto sits on Highway 401 — one of the busiest freight corridors in North America — with rail intermodal, air cargo, and the US border all within a day's drive. These are the lanes GTA carriers run most:
Toronto → Montreal
The busiest intercity lane in Canada, straight down the 401/20. High dry-van volume both directions makes backhauls realistic instead of theoretical.
Toronto → Ottawa
Steady consumer and government-adjacent freight up the 401/416. A common day-run for GTA owner-operators who want to sleep at home.
Toronto → Windsor / Detroit border
The 401 west to Canada’s busiest trade crossing. Automotive and manufacturing freight dominates; cross-border capable carriers earn a premium.
GTA regional
Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Scarborough — short-haul distribution moves between warehouses, intermodal yards, and retail DCs, often multi-drop.
Where loads start in the GTA
Pearson / Mississauga corridor
The warehouse belt around Toronto Pearson — Dixie, Airport Road, Britannia — is one of the densest distribution clusters in the country. A large share of GTA loads start or end here.
CN Brampton Intermodal
Container freight off the rails at one of CN’s largest intermodal terminals. Drayage and first-mile moves feed carriers all over the western GTA.
CP Vaughan Intermodal
CP’s GTA intermodal hub generates steady container drayage north of the city, with quick access to the 400-series network.
Milton / Halton warehousing
The newest big-box distribution build-out in the GTA west — retail and e-commerce DCs that load outbound freight daily.
Running a truck out of Toronto
The GTA's freight mix favours dry van — retail, CPG, and e-commerce distribution — with steady reefer food service work and flatbed construction freight as the city builds. Most loads on Haulor's Toronto board are day-runs or single-overnight lanes, which is what keeps owner-operators profitable here: less deadhead, more nights at home.
Haulor's matching engine ranks Toronto loads against your equipment, your usual lanes, and real margins — see how carrier matching works. Dispatching several trucks in the GTA? The Dispatch Suite keeps the whole fleet on one board. Freight across the province is on the Ontario loads page.