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The National Private Truck Council (NPTC) is a national trade association in the United States which represents private motor carrier fleets. [1]Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the NPTC is the national trade association representing private motor carrier fleets, corporate or private truck fleets operated by manufacturers, distributors, processors, and retailers.
CRST The Transportation Solution, Inc. (formerly CRST International) is an American freight company based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. [4]Founded in 1955 by Herald and Miriam Smith, it is a privately held company with a current fleet of more than 30,000 transportation service providers, 6,000 drivers, [5] and annual revenues of $1.5 billion.
A common property-carrying commercial vehicle in the United States is the tractor-trailer, also known as an "18-wheeler" or "semi".. The trucking industry serves the American economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, works in process, and finished goods over land—typically from manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.
Roehl Transport, Inc. is an American trucking company based in Marshfield, Wisconsin.The company provides national transportation and logistics services. It ranked 73rd on the Transport Topics Top 100 For-Hire list of US and Canadian freight carriers by revenue for 2021 with an estimated $450 million in revenue for the previous year.
Estes semi-trailer truck in 2016. The company was founded near Chase City, Virginia, by cotton farmer Webb Wallace ("W.W.") Estes (1897–1971).Estes started providing livestock moving services for local farmers in 1931 [4] with a used Chevrolet truck.
R+L Carriers is a privately owned American freightshipping company based in Wilmington, Ohio, which grew over the course of 50 years from one truck to a fleet of 21,000 tractors and trailers. [1] The company serves all 48 contiguous American states plus Canada , Puerto Rico , the U.S. Virgin Islands , and the Dominican Republic .
Private carriage usually refers to trucking but is also found in rail and water transportation, as well as communication. Private carriage is distinguished from independent carrier , which is an individual owner-operator or trucker who may make discretionary deals with private carriers, common carriers, or contract carriers.
Total Quality Logistics (TQL) is a North American freight brokerage and third-party logistics firm. [4] It was founded in 1997 by Ken Oaks in Cincinnati, and is headquartered in nearby Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States.