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Overland Express

Dorval,QC - Spring 1992. Note: Owned by TNT since 1973, it is only during the first half of the 80’s the TNT logo appeared discretely on the side of the trailers.	Oshawa,ON - Spring 1994.	Windsor,ON - Spring 1994.
Ville St-Laurent,QC - Summer 1993. Note: Dominion Consolidated taken over by TNT in 1985 was merged with Overland a year later.	Windsor,ON - Spring 1996. Note: An albinos tractor diverted from the Texport division pulling a customer livery trailer.	Windsor,ON - Spring 1995. Note: TNT Overland has always operated a certain number of unmarked trailers.
An Overland tractor pulling an old Champlain Express trailer, Dorval,QC - Summer 1992. Note: Champlain (previously Cowansville Express) was a Champlain Sept-Iles division serving the Eastern Townships.	Quebec City,QC - Spring 1999. Note: Inherited from the Champlain Sept-Iles era (merged into Overland in 1987), TNT Overland hauled refrigerated freight to Northern Quebec with these 3 axle trailers.	Dorval,QC - Spring 1995.
Yard tractor at work at the Oshawa,ON terminal, Spring 1995. Note: Overland operated a small number of custom built dedicated yard tractors (GMC, Ford and Inter) painted with a distinctive colour and for the majority of them powered by two strokes Detroit Diesel engines.	Toronto terminal, located in Mississauga, was the heart of TNT Overland Express operations, Spring 1995.	Quebec City terminal, small and rustic, was the base from where Champlain Sept-Iles Express and from 1987 Overland Express served Northern Quebec, Fall 1994.
Quebec City - Fall 1995 Note: After the closure of Alltrans / Comet / Kwikasair group in 1989, TNT reallocated the newer units of its transcontinental fleet to the Overland Express division.	Dorval,QC - Spring 1996

Truckload Services

Dorval,QC - Summer 1992
Note: The truckload department of Overland traded as Truckload Canada until 1986 when the name was changed for TNT Truckload Services.

Lachine,QC - Summer 1997

Quebec City,QC - March 2012
This old TruckLoad Canada trailer has kept its paint intact after all those years and is now used for storage.

Just In Time

Windsor,ON - Spring 1994
Note: Introduced in 1984 to support the Japanese concept of zero inventory system in automotive manufacturing, JIT div. operated milk run, sequence parts delivery and on demand emergency truckload.

Windsor,ON - Spring 1994

Dearborn,MI - Spring 1994

Olex

Pointe-Claire,QC - Spring 1994
Note: The division was dedicated to urgent freight delivery on behalf of the automotive industry.

Oshawa,ON - Spring 1995

Windsor,ON - Summer 1996
Note: A very unusual GMC Astro in straight truck configuration.

Taxi Truck

Dorval,QC - Summer 1996
Note: It is a taxicab for freight; one driver, one truck, one urgent load with delivery schedule 24/7.

Mississauga,ON - Spring 1996
Note: Alongside mainly small vans and straight trucks, the division used some 53 ft trailers as needed.

Overland Western International

Flint,MI - Spring 1996
Note: This small division was specialized in trans-border freight haulage between Michigan and Ontario through Detroit and Port Huron gateways.

Tractors line up at Flint terminal, Spring 1996

Flint,MI - Spring 1996

Vintage trucks and trailers showing liveries prior to the TNT era.

Champlain	Cowansville Express	Overland Western
Overland Western	One of Dominion Consolidated's internal companies was Truck Air Limited. They held a mostly open license to service points in Ontario from Toronto International (now Pearson) Airport. "Transfer To Truck Air" This picture shows a Dominion Consolidated (Truck Air) straight truck at one of the air cargo warehouses with a Tughan Express (Kitchener Ont. ) Ford tractor trailer.

...And later in the Transforce era (Link to the Section)