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CFI operates from four dedicated truckload terminals and 37 sales offices throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. [6] As of 2021, CFI's operations included approximately 2,000 drivers, over 1,800 tractors, and over 7,000 trailers plus 700 contracted owner-operators.
[5] [6] Its trucking fleet consists of over 14,000 company-owned power units, nearly 10,000 owner-operator tractors, nearly 50,000 trailers and over 200 straight trucks. [ 7 ] Since the mid 1990s, the company's main source of growth has been complete takeovers of smaller logistics companies (over 190 between 1996 and 2021) many of which ...
This was the Union Pacific's first short-line sale. Watco then looked to the West Region, acquiring the Blue Mountain Railroad in 1998, the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad in 1992 and the Eastern Idaho Railroad in 1993. In 1998, it began operating the Stillwater Central Railroad in Oklahoma and the Timber Rock Railroad in Texas.
Landstar System, Inc. is a transportation services company specializing in logistics and more specifically third-party logistics.Landstar also utilizes an extensive network of more than 11,000 independent owner operators, referred to internally as BCO's (business capacity owners).
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [6] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers.
A Nissan Diesel trucker in Hong Kong. There are three major types of truck driver employment: Owner-operators (also known as O/Os, or "doublestuffs" [4]) are individuals who own the trucks they drive and can either lease their trucks by contract with a trucking company to haul freight for that company using their own trucks or haul loads for multiple companies and are self-employed independent ...
GP Transco was founded on June 30, 2006, by Gedas Poviliunas, in Illinois. [4] The company was headquartered in Darien before moving to its new headquarters in Joliet, Illinois, in 2020. [5] [6] [7] In 2019, the company launched a program to reward its top fifty percent of drivers with a salary bonus each month based on fuel efficiency. [8] [9 ...
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .