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About Rideau

Freight, handled like
it is our name on it.

Rideau Logistics is a freight brokerage based in Ottawa, Ontario, arranging truckload and LTL freight between Canada and the United States. We do not own trucks. We own the outcome, from the first quote to the proof of delivery.

Why we exist

The industry has two kinds of freight companies. We wanted to be the third.

At one end are the big, capable operators whose service feels like a machine: efficient, but impersonal, and hard to reach when your load is the one that needs attention. At the other end are the small shops that will pick up the phone but cannot always find capacity when the market tightens or a lane gets difficult.

Rideau was built to sit in the gap between them. Big enough to find the right carrier for your freight, small enough that one person knows your shipment by name and answers when you call. We chose to specialise in the part of the job most likely to go wrong, the border, because that is where a broker actually earns its fee.

We are early, and we would rather earn your trust than borrow it. So instead of inventing a decade of history, we put our commitments in writing and hold ourselves to them on every single load.

What we hold ourselves to

The promise, in plain terms.

You hear it from us first.

If a load is late, held at the border, or at risk, you get the news from us with a plan attached. Silence is the one thing we will not do.

Never an unchecked truck.

Authority, insurance, safety, and a double-broker screen, verified on every carrier and every load, including the ones we have used before.

The quote is the invoice.

All-in pricing. No invented accessorials, no fuel surprises, no line items that appear after delivery.

Always a person.

No call centre, no ticket queue, no phone tree. One point of contact who knows your freight.

The details

Registered, insured, and accountable.

Legal entityMarlin Technology Inc. o/a Rideau Logistics
USDOT number9248993
Operating authorityBroker of Property
Based inOttawa, Ontario, Canada
ServingCanada · United States · Mexico
Straight with you: Rideau Logistics is a freight broker, not a motor carrier, and not a customs broker. We arrange transportation through vetted carriers and coordinate customs with your customs broker. It is the model that lets us stay on your side of the table.

Let's move something.

Whether you have one load or a lane to cover, we would like the chance to earn it. Send it over and see how we work.