What makes TNT Kelowna's #1 in
- Trucking
- Demolition and Abatement
- Concrete Crushing and Disposal
TNT trucking and services has been in business for 14 + years Servicing the Kelowna and Okanagan area. Started by Nick Nixon and family the company has grown to a fleet of trucks and equipment. TNT is able to handle all your contracting , Landscaping and Supplies and trucking jobs, with our wide array of services and equipment to suite your needs from big to small we can handle it all.
Company Expertise
TNT’s growth in the hauling/recycling industry has grown exponentially in the last 4 years. With solid industry knowledge and understanding of the market, we intended on focusing more on the processing of recyclable materials. Our unique offering is mobile clean up and removal coupled with the hauling capacity of multiple trucks ranging from tandem dump trucks, end dump and tractor, bin rentals 23–40-yard capacity and single axle dump trucks, a vast network of contractors for resale of the processed goods (Ex Concrete, aggregates soils, metals, recycled wood products). With this mobile processing equipment we can offer onsite material processing, create back fill products, mulches, soils, etc.
TNT was started by Ryan’s father/business partner Nick Nixon with a single axel Ford F450 he built the dump deck, purchased the truck, Ryan helped with some fabrication and advertising in the back end for several years. Nick and Ryan have started multiple companies that have been successful and varied work experience in other industries making us very well rounded.
TNTs current operations revolve around the construction and landscaping industry with an emphasis on recycling and removals/hauling. We provide equipment services for smaller contractors. These smaller sized contractors are our built-in sales force selling our products and services to their clients for their projects. TNT bids, manages, and supplies its own landscape projects as well as demolition, construction and general excavations and now moving into abatement and remediation.
Recently we have officially expanded our TNT family to introduce Thunderstruck Demolition LTD to handle all our demolition and removal services. As well as Evergreen Hazmat Solutions for our abatement services. As our company has grown, we acknowledge that for liability and financial reasons it was time to incorporate into separated businesses to give our clients the best services and keep our project costing competitive.
Business Location:
TNT Current location on old Vernon Road we have a portable office and containers for storage a 60×35 tent for equipment repair, as well as currently park our equipment we rent an acre for soil production screening and some aggregate recycling. This is also a hub where we collect yard waste chippings branches and make recycled landscape products. Including and not limited to sand, gravels, etc.
Meet our Team
Ryan Nixon – CEO
Ryan runs the day-to-day operations of TNT and has been a vital part of the company over the last decade. He brings a wealth of industry knowledge in all aspects of the business. He runs dispatch for our trucking fleet of gravel trucks and provides customers with prices/estimates and is always on the go. With a background in sales as well he strives to make sure we at TNT stay competitively priced and the best option when it comes to trucking services in the Okanagan valley. He has been an entrepreneur from a young age of 23 years old, with many successful business ventures under his belt, he is always striving to improve and grow our family of companies with new technology and innovation and is a big supporter of recycling and making sure we drive our businesses to renewable and green business solutions and practices. Ryan started TNT into the vermiculture as well as the crushing and screening divisions of TNT, and is passionate about leading TNT into more diverse offerings that can also help our customers to also be more environmentally friendly.
Nick Nixon – CEO
Nick is the original founder of TNT trucking over 15 years ago and is the driving force of who we are as a company today. Nick has been in the transportation industry most of his career and knows western Canada like the back of his hand. With decades of business connections and a wealth of different clients and relations he attends to all the upkeep of our fleet and making sure our heavy equipment is in ready-to-go condition at all times. He works with our team of mechanics and welders in house to keep our gear up to our standards and for custom made solutions for the varied jobs that our family of companies undertakes. Nick Nixon founded Nixon bros holding, Nixon motor sports, TNT trucking, 55 years of business and life experience truck driver and equipment operating.
Tom Davies – COO – Demolition Specialist
Tom was recently brought into the TNT family but has been working as a Demolition operations manager in the Okanagan valley for the last 5 years. He attended college in Ontario in 2010 for blasting and demolition techniques and since then has worked in a variety of trades in the industry. With over 150 buildings demolished under his belt he is one of the most knowledgeable managers in the area, both in residential and commercial scale projects. He also has a wealth of trade tickets, experience in heavy equipment, and training.
Tom currently holds a Level 3 asbestos remediation certificate and works closely with our abatement division. He was one of the founding forces of our demolition division and our abatement company Evergreen Hazmat Solution, that are now thriving divisions within the TNT family. He can be found both in the office working on pricing and estimates as well as meeting with potential clients and developers, or on the tools showing our employees the most efficient methods for demolition and abatement practices.
Darren McMurray – COO – Hazmat/Abatement Specialist
Darren joined the TNT family of companies to lead and manage our abatement and remediation division and helped found Evergreen Hazmat Solution. He has over 14 years of abatement experience all over the province of BC, in all forms of remediation practices from mold and asbestos to lead and trauma clean up. Darren brings a wealth of knowledge to the team and strives to be an industry leader in safety and training our staff for their safety and for the general public’s safety and well-being.
Darren currently holds a Level S asbestos remediation certificate as well as a Level 3 certificate. He has a longstanding passion for remediation and hazardous materials that have led him all over the province on specialty consulting projects. He can be found advising on projects in our offices or on job sites training our staff in the safest and quickest ways to complete remediation tasks.
Trish Nebot – Office Admin
Trish is a valued part of our office administration team and handles the back of house paperwork such as payroll, rentals, purchasing, and company fuel management systems. She has been a part of the TNT family for over a decade now and is an asset for our back of house bookkeeping.
Jacklyn Cade – Office Admin
Jacklyn is the backbone of our office administration staff and handles our day-to-day customer invoicing and billing. She also handles all the TNT family of businesses regulatory upkeep, making sure all aspects of the business are up to city/provincial standards.
Aron Sylvester – Lead Civil Operator
Aron brings 18 years’ experience operating in heavy equipment ranging from excavators, skid steers, loaders, and dozers. And has many tickets ranging from ground disturbance, Confined space rescue, WHIMIS, CS/TS (safety systems), High angle rescue, H2S, Fall Arrest, and is certified in Live wire digging. He also was the CAT competition skills winner in 2024, which showcases operator finesse and time constrained tasks to compete against competing operators. He is also our lead operator for our concrete recycling equipment and has a passion for leaving clean and polished sites that are ready for the next stage of the building life cycle.
Miroslav Bocka – Lead mechanic
Miro is an extremely talented mechanic who services and maintains our entire fleet of trucks as well as all our heavy equipment. With many years as a garbage truck mechanic, before coming to work for TNT, gave him the knowledge and tools to work on almost anything with wheels or tracks. He can be found in our yard working with our welders as well as hand in hand with Nick to keep our equipment in tiptop shape for daily operations.