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The business grew with the purchase of intrastate and interstate authority from Mayflower Moving and Storage, becoming R+L Carriers, Inc. [2] When the early 1980s brought deregulation to the trucking industry with the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, the company became incorporated in conjunction with the design of a new system that resulted in the ...
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association developed the SCAC code in the 1960s to help road transport companies computerize data and records. [ 1 ] Description
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."
When CF split in 1996, Con-way continued to be owned by CNF Transportation Inc., the parent company formerly called Consolidated Freightways, Inc. [1] In 2006, CNF Transportation changed its name to Con-way, Inc. and its former Con-way subsidiary became Con-way Freight.
Pitt Ohio Express was founded in Pittsburgh in 1979 by brothers Charles L. "Chuck" Hammel III, Robert F. "Bob" Hammel, and Kenneth W. "Ken" Hammel. The brothers came from a family with a long history in freight transportation.
The Dayton District is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. state of Ohio. The line runs from Columbus southwest to Cincinnati along former Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad lines.
YRC Inc. changed its name to YRC Freight in 2012. [2] In 2023, Yellow files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and shut down all operations. [ 26 ] Despite Roadway ceasing operations back in 2009, 14 years prior to the bankruptcy filing, Roadway Express was still listed as one of the affiliates in the filing.
DAT Freight & Analytics, formerly 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.