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Freightquote developed a patented-technology platform to enable shippers to find competitive rates that can be compared [4] for their freight shipments, similar to that which travel websites provide. Performed online, customers input freight shipment information online, review carrier options, choose a carrier, book shipments and pay for services.
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."
XPO LTL facility in Tomah, Wisconsin formerly a Con-way Freight terminal. Less-than-truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of an amount of freight sized between individual parcels and full truckloads. Parcel carriers handle small packages and freight that can be broken down into units less than approximately 150 pounds ...
Shiply is a UK-based limited company [1] providing an internet marketplace where transport service requesters may list items they need to move, and where providers of transport services can bid in a reverse auction format.
XPO LTL facility in Tomah, Wisconsin, formerly a Con-way Freight terminal XPO is the second largest provider of less-than-truckload services in North America. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] LTL is a freight model which involves shipping smaller quantities of goods for multiple customers at a time. [ 39 ]
Estes expanded beyond its core LTL services in 2003 by founding an air freight division [5] and in 2012 by establishing a division offering supply chain service for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) logistics called Level 2 Logistics. The company also launched the Estes SureMove division, an alternative to full-service ...
The company was founded as Livingston Merchant's Co-op in 1958 and incorporated as Averitt Express in 1969. [2] [3] Averitt is owned by Gary Sasser, who purchased the company from its original owner, Thurman Averitt, in October 1971 at the age of 20.
Saia is an American less than truckload (LTL) trucking company that originated in Houma, Louisiana, in 1924.With original operation occurring in Louisiana and Texas for the first fifty years, expansion came after 1980 when coverage began reaching into more states within the South.