Teal's Express

Shortly after the Civil War ended, John Teal (great great grandfather of the current owners) and his son Nicholas began to operate a freight and passenger service in the sparsely populated Adirondack Region of New York State. Although they met with early success, Nicholas’ keen sense of business trading could not compensate for his lack of ability to read and write, and that issue forced him into an early bankruptcy, a choice he had little direction over.

By 1926 Nicholas’ son John, who had retained his father’s business prowess, was able to amass enough money to purchase back the local trucking company his father had started and John then began operating weekly trips into the Utica area. When business was slow he would take his team of horses and plow gardens in the spring and then city streets in the winter. By 1928 he was making daily trips to and from Utica and the Teal name became synonymous with honesty and efficient work habits.
Around 1934 a major influx of new business came with contract authority to haul paper from the Lyons Falls Paper Mills into the Post-Standard Newspaper in Syracuse, NY. This new contract became the basis for additional work in the Central New York Region and provided a base account for Teal’s Express to grow on.

By 1951 Teal’s Express had expanded their authority into the Watertown and Dexter areas of New York.
In 1976, the company’s authority was extended into the Syracuse area and four years later expanded again to service the Albany, Rochester, and Massena areas of New York State as deregulation of the industry occurred.

In 1990, Teal’s again expanded their operation and began to service the Buffalo NY marketplace and concurrently received their Canadian authority to begin their International operations. In 1992, Teal’s enlarged their service territory again and began to provide daily service throughout the Northeast with strategically based operations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

The year 2000 welcomed a new State-of-the-Art Maintenance facility for Teal’s at their Utica, NY break-bulk terminal, the central hub terminal for the company. This facility is equipped to service, repair and maintain all of the Teal equipment and provides 24-hour service for maximum efficiency.

Teal’s Express provides the Northeast Region with consistent and dependable service. Teal’s continues to remain a family owned business.