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his year Transport Dessaults, an LTL (Less Than
Truckload) transport service based in Quebec, cel-
ebrates its 10th year of operations. Brothers Leo
and André Fréchette are the original founders of the com-
pany. José Serli, the company’s new CEO and President,
bought the company in July 2013 and has focused on re-
branding the firm.
With him, he brings a wealth of experience from his ex-
tended time in the transport industry. From a young age,
he was exposed to the industry and worked in his father’s
truck dealership in the garage. At the age of 16 he began
to work for SGT2000, a large full-truck load company in
the center of Quebec, during the weekends and summers.
After completing a Business Administration Degree and
working for several years in the logistics department of a
transport company, he went on to start his own partner-
ship that was in operation for over 7 years. He achieved
great success and he departed from the firm in 2012 for
bigger opportunities.
In February 2013 he started Transitex Solutions Inc., a lo-
gistics company, and completed the acquisition of Trans-
port Dessaults. The merging of the two entities allows
the Dessaults Group to provide its clients a full service of
international logistics. He’s recently begun the process of
restructuring the company. “The trucking company has
