Consolidated Fastfrate Travels Canada To Fight Hunger

November 20, 2002
Woodbridge, ON

Consolidated Fastfrate Inc., one of Canada’s largest, privately held freight carriers, will join forces with Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to raise funds and awareness for Canada’s needy this holiday season.

“Consolidated Fastfrate is proud to be a sponsor of CPR’s Holiday Train,” said Ron Tepper, the company’s President and CEO. “Two trains will travel to fifty plus communities throughout Canada in an effort to combat this social epidemic which is silently attacking our children. Of the estimated 800,000 people in this country who will turn to food banks each and every month, 40 percent of those are children.”

Since its inception four years ago, the Holiday Train has attracted thousands of people, collected 73 tons of food and raised some CAD$900,000. “I urge everyone in the communities being visited by the trains to come out and support this very important cause,” Tepper added.

The Holiday Train will make its first Canadian stop in Streetsville, Ontario on Thursday, December 5, 2002. This is the fourth year that Consolidated Fastfrate will sponsor the Holiday Train.

Headquartered in Woodbridge, Ontario, Consolidated Fastfrate is one of Canada’s largest, privately held freight carriers. Servicing Canada, United States and Mexico, Consolidated Fastfrate has 16 operating terminals throughout Canada, with a fleet of 275 tractors and 600 trailers. It also maintains transload locations in Toronto, Thunder Bay, Calgary and Vancouver, and is Canada’s only carrier with intermodal yards co-located with CPR.

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