Chris Hall Laidlaw Carriers Collection

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These are some pictures of companies that Laidlaw Carriers have purchased since about 1994. Laidlaw is growing at an incredible rate. These photos from Chris Hall, will only concentrate on when the original Laidlaw Transport sold to Contrans Corp. in the mid eighties and changed the name to Laidlaw Carriers, that is run by Stan Dunford's company, Contrans Corp.

It all started out as Dunford Transport in the 70's. Floyd Dunford started this fleet and ran an impecably clean fleet, specializing in tankers. Floyd's son, Stan, also helped him with the business and later took it over. This is a typial Dunford Peterbilt from 1994.

Stan was involved with Contrans Corp and bought out Laidlaw Transport in the mid 80's. This is why Laidlaw changed to silver and red, as seen in this 2000 photo of a Kenworth W-900L with tandem van. This Peterbilt 377, owned by Lenny Quenell, from Palmerston, Ontario, is unloading cement at Hogg Redimix in Kitchener, Ontario on July 12, 1990. A Laidlaw broker from North Bay Terminal seen at the Fergus Truck Show in 2001.

Laidlaw bought Christie Transport from North Gower, Ontario. Christie was a van and dump trail transport company.

Laidlaw then bought Fillion Transport from Beleou, Quebec. Laidlaw has not repainted this fleet and they still run in their original colours.

Fillion unit with Transteel name, which is the old Trojan Transport they bought. The original Trojan Transport name and colours.

Laidlaw bought Brookville from St. John, New Brunswick. These photos show the original colours and the Laidlaw treatment.

Laidlaw purchased a small dump division, Clair's Haulage, from Burlington, Ontario, and kept these trucks a short time. Most tractors were sold off to owner/operators. Clair's Haulage truck that was re-lettered Laidlaw. Laidlaw bought Sure-Way Transport and sold off their fleet of green Macks and Western Stars. For a few months, Laidlaw ran some silver trucks that were lettered Sure-Way Carriers. Sureway was a big flatbed and multi-axle van transport company from Toronto.

Steel City Transport of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario was bought by Laidlaw in the late 90's. This Kenworth was taken in their Sault Ste Marie yard in 1992. It is an ex-Esso unit. Laidlaw now owns Glen Tay Transport out of Perth, Ontario. They specialize in hauling these trailers hauling for a local mine.

As time went on, Laidlaw dropped the Dunford name from the Liquid tanker division. Now it is call Laidlaw. They also ran a heavy haul division called, Mercury.

An early Laidlaw Ford Super Duty taken at their London terminal. The picture shows the original Laidlaw logo on the door and the tractor was typical of the tractors that they used in the late 60's. This cabover Kenworth was an owner operator leased on to Laidlaw Transport. Hooked to a typical set of Laidlaw dump A trains. In the early eighties there was tons of these set ups hauling dumps. Along with owner operators many company owned cabover Transtars, Kenworth and Freightliner pulled these dumps. At one time Laidlaw even lettered some tractors Reliable Scott. The paint scheme and door decals show what Laidlaw Transtar looked like before Contrans took them over in the late eighties.

Peterbilt 359 broker from Dunford just leaving the 1990 Fergus truck show. At one time there would be up to 20 Dunford trucks at the Fergus show but now they are just all Laidlaw units. The Dunford colour look great in this traditional Peterbilt paint scheme. The Casco trailer is a major customer of Dunford and is Canada Starch also located in Dunfords hometown of Woodstock. Originally Dunford trucks were painted green and based out of Havelock Ontario. The Laidlaw / Dunford colours originally came from an owner operator who bought a new 1976 Pete cabover painted silver and red and Dunford addopted these colours for the fleet.

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These are some pictures of companies that Laidlaw Carriers have purchased since about 1994. Laidlaw is growing at an incredible rate. These photos from Chris Hall, will only concentrate on when the original Laidlaw Transport sold to Contrans Corp. in the mid eighties and changed the name to Laidlaw Carriers, that is run by Stan Dunford's company, Contrans Corp.
	It all started out as Dunford Transport in the 70's. Floyd Dunford started this fleet and ran an impecably clean fleet, specializing in tankers. Floyd's son, Stan, also helped him with the business and later took it over. This is a typial Dunford Peterbilt from 1994.

Stan was involved with Contrans Corp and bought out Laidlaw Transport in the mid 80's. This is why Laidlaw changed to silver and red, as seen in this 2000 photo of a Kenworth W-900L with tandem van.	This Peterbilt 377, owned by Lenny Quenell, from Palmerston, Ontario, is unloading cement at Hogg Redimix in Kitchener, Ontario on July 12, 1990.	A Laidlaw broker from North Bay Terminal seen at the Fergus Truck Show in 2001.

Laidlaw bought Christie Transport from North Gower, Ontario. Christie was a van and dump trail transport company.

Laidlaw then bought Fillion Transport from Beleou, Quebec. Laidlaw has not repainted this fleet and they still run in their original colours.

Fillion unit with Transteel name, which is the old Trojan Transport they bought.	The original Trojan Transport name and colours.

Laidlaw bought Brookville from St. John, New Brunswick. These photos show the original colours and the Laidlaw treatment.

Laidlaw purchased a small dump division, Clair's Haulage, from Burlington, Ontario, and kept these trucks a short time. Most tractors were sold off to owner/operators.	Clair's Haulage truck that was re-lettered Laidlaw.	Laidlaw bought Sure-Way Transport and sold off their fleet of green Macks and Western Stars. For a few months, Laidlaw ran some silver trucks that were lettered Sure-Way Carriers. Sureway was a big flatbed and multi-axle van transport company from Toronto.

Steel City Transport of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario was bought by Laidlaw in the late 90's. This Kenworth was taken in their Sault Ste Marie yard in 1992. It is an ex-Esso unit.	Laidlaw now owns Glen Tay Transport out of Perth, Ontario. They specialize in hauling these trailers hauling for a local mine.
As time went on, Laidlaw dropped the Dunford name from the Liquid tanker division. Now it is call Laidlaw. They also ran a heavy haul division called, Mercury.

An early Laidlaw Ford Super Duty taken at their London terminal. The picture shows the original Laidlaw logo on the door and the tractor was typical of the tractors that they used in the late 60's.	This cabover Kenworth was an owner operator leased on to Laidlaw Transport. Hooked to a typical set of Laidlaw dump A trains. In the early eighties there was tons of these set ups hauling dumps. Along with owner operators many company owned cabover Transtars, Kenworth and Freightliner pulled these dumps. At one time Laidlaw even lettered some tractors Reliable Scott. The paint scheme and door decals show what Laidlaw Transtar looked like before Contrans took them over in the late eighties.
	Peterbilt 359 broker from Dunford just leaving the 1990 Fergus truck show. At one time there would be up to 20 Dunford trucks at the Fergus show but now they are just all Laidlaw units. The Dunford colour look great in this traditional Peterbilt paint scheme. The Casco trailer is a major customer of Dunford and is Canada Starch also located in Dunfords hometown of Woodstock. Originally Dunford trucks were painted green and based out of Havelock Ontario. The Laidlaw / Dunford colours originally came from an owner operator who bought a new 1976 Pete cabover painted silver and red and Dunford addopted these colours for the fleet.