What to Expect from Verduyn Tarps and The Trucking Industry in 2025

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Looking at Canada’s trucking industry in 2025 through a broad lens, we will likely see a blend of traditional operations and innovative technologies. While full automation is not yet a reality, there will be significant advancements in electric trucks, AI integration, and smart technologies. The industry’s ability to adapt to regulatory pressures, workforce challenges, and evolving consumer demands will be crucial to its success. Overall, the future of Canadian trucking will be one marked by both technological innovation and a continued emphasis on sustainability, efficiency, and safety in 2025.

At Verduyn Tarps, we have set our priorities and areas of focus for 2025 to help continue to grow our business and offer quality, honest service to all our customers. Here are a few of the things we have planned for next year….

Trade shows

The Buildings Show

Technically, this is happening in late 2024 but it’s worth talking about here! The Buildings Show is Canada’s premier construction event connecting the whole building industry. This is our first year attending the show as exhibitors and we are excited to showcase our top-selling aluminum products: storage boxes, ramps, ramp kits; custom tarps; and cargo equipment to the construction industry. You can find us in Booth #1042 from December 4-6th, 2024. Want to attend the show for FREE? Register today and we’ll see you there!

Landscape Congress

We are back again! We are thrilled to return to the Landscape Ontario Congress for a third year in a row at the Toronto Congress Centre. Landscape Ontario Congress is Canada’s largest and longest running trade show and conference for landscape professionals. With over 400 exhibitors covering more than 8 acres, Congress is a one-stop-shop for the latest equipment, tools, materials and supplies; everything you need to do what you do best (Landscape Ontario Horticultural Trades Association, 2024). Come say hello to our team in in Booth #2357 from January 7-9th, 2025. Registration is now open – we can’t wait to see you and kick off another year of tradeshows!

Canadian Concrete Expo

Another new show for the Canadian Verduyn Tarps Team in 2025! The Canadian Concrete Expo takes place in early February 2025 and is Canada’s only national trade show dedicated to the concrete, construction and aggregates industries. The CCE is the ideal environment to source new suppliers, reconnect with industry contacts, get hands on with the latest equipment, and take advantage of exclusive show offers while maintaining and developing your knowledge of Canada’s diverse and changing concrete construction industry. Registration opens on November 15th – be sure to register early online to SAVE up to 50% off your admission! More information on our product showcase and show specials to come in January 2025.

More Tradeshows – We love getting the chance to meet new (and existing) customers in person! We are always looking for new ways and new markets to showcase our extensive range of products and services. We have our eye on a few new tradeshows for Fall 2025 you just might see us pop up at so be sure to watch our socials for any tradeshow announcements! Think we might be missing an opportunity to connect? Here are some of the industries we serve but we welcome your tradeshow suggestions– just let one of our staff know where you would like to see us pop up next!

Price Expectations

Same Quality, Same Price

In an ongoing effort to offer competitive pricing and high-quality products, we have been scouting the best overseas suppliers to work with in 2025. In the trucking industry we anticipate some increase costs of doing business, driven by a combination of factors like higher transportation costs, raw material price volatility, wage inflation, geopolitical risks, and shifts in trade policies. However, the extent of those increases will depend on how these factors evolve over the next year. Nonetheless, we are prepared! We have been actively seeking more cost-effective sourcing options. We are working with new suppliers to provide you with the same quality and same pricing you have come to expect from Verduyn Tarps. This is just another way we continue to offer the best quality, honest service to the trucking industry!

Brrr…Our Prices are Getting Cold!

Over the past 38 years we have collaborated with our suppliers to ensure our products provide the best value for our customers without compromising quality. We leverage these long-term, loyal relationships to be able to avoid excess pricing increases and offer timely delivery. In 2025, our goal is to freeze our current pricing as much as possible. This means that we are doing our absolute best to limit the number of price increases across all our product lines. Any price increases incurred will be well-communicated to all our customers to remain transparent. We know wallets have been tight these last few years and we want to assure our customers that Verduyn Tarps strives to not only keep your wheels in motion, but your dollars in your hands.

The Bigger, The Better

More Products, More Solutions

At Verduyn Tarps, we have always competed in the trucking industry with a large and diverse product range. We offer the top brands in trucking as well as continuing to shift our efforts to our own branded line of storage boxes, straps, etc. Our staff are experts when it comes to their product knowledge, offering unique and custom solutions to our customers to get them back on the road and keep their wheels in motion. If we don’t have the right solution available to you, we can get it! We have maintained close relationships with our suppliers over nearly four decades of business, which uniquely helps us to be able to offer more products and more solutions to our customers. When browsing our website, if you don’t see the product you need, let us know. At Verduyn Tarps, we always have a solution!

Now Available in Skid Size!

We are now pleased to offer some of your favourite cargo securement and trucking accessories in larger quantities. We heard your feedback and, in an effort, to continue to provide the best in quality and service while staying competitive, you can now purchase a whole skid of our bestselling cargo equipment and accessories. Skids can be purchased both online and in-store. Just search for skid quantities and pricing using the search term “skid” on our website, here or get in touch with one of our Sales team members today. We will be adding more skid-sized options in 2025 – stay tuned!

We’re Where You Are

We’re Bringing Personalized Service Directly to You in 2025!

For 2025, our dedicated Canadian sales team is hitting the road to visit you where you work – saving you time and energy by bringing our deep expertise directly to your business. When we visit, our goal is to make it easier for you to find the right solutions for your business, address your challenges, and help your business run smoothly, irrespective of our products – we want you to succeed! We understand that your time is valuable, so we’ll come to you, providing a face-to-face experience that ensures you get the best support exactly when you need it, whether it’s at your business or somewhere on your transport journey. Because the more we understand all aspects of your business, the more we can help you, with both anticipated and unexpected needs. We look forward to being on the road with you in 2025!

Expanded Delivery Coverage

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To make it easier for you to get the tools and equipment you need to keep your wheels in motion, we have extended our delivery coverage! We are now pleased to deliver out to the Windsor area, right up to the Ambassador Bridge, on any order over $500.00 (CDN$). Our delivery van will be heading south-west once a month to deliver orders to our customers in Sarnia, Oil Springs, Wallaceburg, Rodney, Tilbury, Chatham, Leamington, and Windsor. We have heard your requests for delivery to these areas, and we are excited to now be able to reach you with the essentials supplies you need. Look for us in your neighbourhood soon!

Working Together – Dealer Partnerships

After 38 years in business, we are excited to still be able to grow and offer our products and services to new customers, in new regions. This is primarily possible utilizing partnerships with some of the best in the trucking business! After many successful years working with KingPin and Quality Trailers in western Canada we knew we wanted to find the perfect partners to expand our business to the east. Our latest and third Canadian partnership with Techno Diesel allows our Eagle Tarp System to reach drivers north of Montreal. We have deep trust and respect for Techno Diesel and their team of technicians who have received on-hands training in our bays in Woodstock, Ontario to be able to install and service our patented retractable tarping system in their own bays back in Joilette, Quebec. Our new dealer partnership allows us to expand not only our business, but also that of another respected company in the trucking industry. Like Verduyn Tarps, Techno Diesel is a family-owned, and operated business that values offering the best products and services to its customers in an honest and timely manner, creating as few interruptions to their day-to-day operations. In our industry, time is money and being able to work together to provide solutions when and where truckers need them most is something that both brands prioritize. As we embark on this partnership with Techno Diesel in 2025, we are excited for a big, bright future in business together!

In Other News…

VTI Apparel – Yes, read that again… apparel! We are a bit more tight-lipped about this new endeavor but what we can say is that we are all very excited to launch our own branded line of apparel in 2025! The first collection of our apparel line will include shirt and hat options featuring designs created in-house by some of our very own talented staff. Stay tuned to our socials for pre-order information!

40th Anniversary – Although 2025 will mark our 39th year in business, plans are underway for our BIG 40th anniversary! What started as a one-man, one-shop side hustle in 1986, Verduyn Tarps is preparing to celebrate 40 years of serving the truck community in a BIG way in 2026. A milestone this rare in today’s economy deserves to honour both our staff and all our customers (past, present, and future) in a special way. Be sure to subscribe to our #VerduynVIP email subscription to stay in the loop on all the details and announcements regarding our 40th anniversary. We look forward to celebrating with you!

We don’t have a crystal ball when it comes to really knowing what to expect from the trucking industry in 2025. But we do know that Verduyn Tarps has a plan to continue providing quality, honest products, and services to keep your wheels in motion! We could have discussed what the trucking landscape is predicted to look like in 2025, but we decided to approach the new year from a more realistic viewpoint and leave the forecasts to other news outlets. Our focus continues to be on finding ways to improve your downtime, prioritize your safety, and save you money. Our staff have decades of combined experience and truly are experts when it comes to finding you the right solutions that fit the demands of your business and wallets. These solutions utilize products you can trust from brands that will have your back after a long day of logging kilometers.

Let’s keep in touch! We invite you to subscribe to our #VerduynVIP email list to keep yourself up to date on new products and services, partnerships, product demonstrations…and sales in 2025!!! Our showrooms are clean and shiny and are waiting to welcome you 5 days a week. And feel free to let us know how we can help YOU in 2025…. ‘Like’ and follow Verduyn Tarps on our social media channels and leave us a comment to keep this conversation going! We look forward to continuing to serve you in the new year!