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Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. traces its origins to 1934 when husband and wife Earl Congdon Sr. and Lillian Congdon (née Herbert) founded the company with a single straight truck running between Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia. [7] [8] The name is a reference to a common nickname for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the "Old Dominion." [9]
XPO, Inc. XPO, Inc. is an American transportation company that conducts less-than-truckload shipping in North America. [7] [8] [9] The company has headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut, US and 564 locations globally. [1]
Yellow Corporation was an American transportation holding company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Its subsidiaries included national less than truckload (LTL) carrier YRC Freight; regional LTL carriers New Penn, Holland, and Reddaway; and freight brokerage HNRY Logistics. [5] From 2006 to February 2021, Yellow was known as YRC Worldwide.
Arkansas-Best changed its name to ABF Freight System Inc. in 1980 [7] and, by 1981, was the eighth largest trucking company in the US operating 106 terminals. [6] It acquired East Texas Motor Freight Lines, a subsidiary of Bright Industries Inc., in 1982, a move which added 44 new terminal cities increasing ABF's reach to a total of 158, [9 ...
21,900 [1] (2019) Parent. Knight-Swift. Website. www.swifttrans.com. Previous logo. Swift Transportation is a Phoenix, Arizona -based American truckload motor shipping carrier, part of Knight-Swift. With over 23,000 trucks, it is the largest common carrier in the United States. [2] In 2017, Swift merged with Knight Transportation, also of Phoenix.
Founder. Isaac Bell. Defunct. 1920s. Fate. Sold to Eastern Steamship Lines. Area served. East Coast of the United States. Old Dominion Steamship Company, also referred to as the Old Dominion Line, was a major cargo and passenger shipping company founded in 1867 [1] in Norfolk, Virginia.
Estes Express Lines is a privately owned American freight transportation provider based in Richmond, Virginia. Founded in 1931 by W. W. Estes, the company is still owned and operated by the Estes family. Robey W. Estes, Jr., became the company’s president in 1990, then chairman and CEO in 2001. He was succeeded by his son Webb Estes as COO ...
dat.com. DAT Freight & Analytics, originally known as Dial-a-Truck, is a US -based freight exchange service ("load board") and provider of transportation information serving North America. Freight exchange services are used to match material ("loads") that needs to be shipped with over-the-road carriers, which can be hired to move those loads.