Canada's Largest Trucking Companies in 2026

October 3, 2026 · Rolls Right

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Two rankings of Canada's biggest trucking companies come out each spring, and they measure different things. The Today's Trucking Top 100, published on April 27, 2026, ranks Canadian for-hire carriers by the equipment they run. The Transport Topics Top 100 For-Hire ranks carriers across the United States, Canada and Mexico by revenue. A carrier can sit in quite a different place on each, so it helps to know which one you are reading.

Here is what the 2026 editions show, with every figure linked to its source at the end of the article.

The 15 largest trucking companies in Canada by fleet size

Today's Trucking ranks Canada's for-hire fleets by total equipment count (tractors, trailers and straight trucks), which it describes as a measure of fleet capacity. Revenue plays no part in this list. The 2026 top 15, with each company's headquarters:

TFI International, Saint-Laurent (Montreal), Quebec
Mullen Group, Okotoks, Alberta
Day & Ross, Hartland, New Brunswick
Bison Transport, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Trimac, Calgary, Alberta. Up four places, mostly through acquisitions, to 8,904 units from 6,294.
Canada Cartage, Mississauga, Ontario. Added nearly 1,000 units.
Purolator, Mississauga, Ontario
Consolidated Fastfrate, Woodbridge, Ontario
CAT, Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec
Manitoulin Transport, Gore Bay, Ontario. Added 1,874 units.
GFL Environmental, Vaughan, Ontario
KAG Canada, Edmonton, Alberta
TransX, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 3,945 units.
M-O Freightworks, Brampton, Ontario
UPS Canada, Mississauga, Ontario

Ranks 16 to 25 are Charger Logistics, Groupe Robert, Titanium, Kriska, Harman Group, Reimer, GLS Canada, Highlight Motor Group, XTL and Simard. Twelve fleets are new to the list this year, and one carrier from last year's list, Light Speed Logistics, filed for bankruptcy in 2025.

The largest Canadian carriers by revenue

Transport Topics ranks common and contract carriers by annual revenue, in US dollars, for 2025. These are the Canadian carriers on its 2026 list:

TFI International (6th): US$7.88 billion. This figure covers the whole company, including large US operations. TFI's own results show revenue down from US$8.40 billion in 2024, on weaker demand.
Purolator (21st): US$2.44 billion
Day & Ross (27th): US$1.56 billion
Mullen Group (40th): Mullen reported record 2025 revenue of C$2,133.6 million, up 7.3%.
Canada Cartage (42nd): US$1.05 billion, a Transport Topics estimate
Bison Transport (55th): US$788 million
Manitoulin (57th): US$755 million, a Transport Topics estimate
Fastfrate (64th): US$627 million

Trimac, fifth by fleet size, does not disclose its revenue and is not on the Transport Topics list.

What the 2026 rankings tell shippers

Much of the growth was bought

Trimac's climb came mostly from acquisitions: it bought Service Transport Co. in October 2025 and California Freight in August 2026. Mullen Group bought Cole Group, effective June 1, 2025, and Zion Trucking in August 2025. Fastfrate has owned a majority of Challenger Motor Freight since 2022 and bought Jardine Transport Group in August 2026. UPS completed its purchase of Andlauer Healthcare Group, for about C$2.2 billion, on November 1, 2025. Closer to home, Delta's HAP Transportation Group announced in August 2026 that it was buying Calgary's Orlicks.

A large fleet includes owner-operators

Fleet counts include trucks run by owner-operators. In Transport Topics' 2026 company figures, Day & Ross lists 1,736 company tractors and 2,121 owner-operator tractors, and Fastfrate lists 1,200 and 1,600. Mullen Group earned 69.8% of its 2025 revenue with its own equipment and staff, and the rest through owner-operators and subcontractors. When you compare carriers, it is worth asking who will actually haul your load.

Most of the industry is small

Transport Canada counted about 152,000 trucking businesses in Canada in December 2024, which it describes as a mix of small for-hire carriers, owner-operators and larger firms. The top 100 are a small slice of that.

Where Western Canada sits

Western Canada is home to 23 of the 100 fleets on the Today's Trucking list, against 45 in Ontario, 26 in Quebec and 6 in Atlantic Canada. Alberta has three companies in the top 15: Mullen Group (Okotoks), Trimac (Calgary) and KAG Canada (Edmonton). Manitoba has Bison Transport and TransX in the top 15 and Reimer at 21st.

None of the top 25 is headquartered in British Columbia. Richmond's Stryder Motorfreight joined the list this year at 44th, and HAP Transportation Group of Delta is 45th.

Cross-border traffic in the West slowed in 2025. Trucks entering Canada at Western crossings fell from 1,190,804 in 2024 to 1,101,586 in 2025, about 7.5%. Transport Canada puts the national decline down to lower trade in automotive products, machinery, forest products and metals.

Choosing a carrier for BC and Alberta freight

These lists measure national and North American scale. If your freight moves inside British Columbia and Alberta, a few questions tell you more about a carrier than its rank: whether it runs its own trucks on your lane, where its terminals sit relative to your pickups and deliveries, and who answers the phone when a load is running late.

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