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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 .
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The Daseke axis of companies includes Smokey Point Distributing, E.W. Wylie, J. Grady Randolph, Central Oregon Truck Company, Lone Star Transportation, Bulldog Hiway Express, Hornady Transportation, and The Boyd Companies (including Boyd Bros. Transportation and WTI Transport).
In December 2003 Yellow Corporation, at the time the second largest LTL carrier in the US, acquired the largest, Roadway Corporation, for US$1.05 billion. [13] [14] Roadway had been spun off from its former parent, holding company Roadway Services Inc. (RSI), in 1995 and operated as an independent, publicly traded company since then.
At the 2021 NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, Hart debuted a sponsorship with R+L Carriers. [24] He added Snap-on Tools as a new marketing partner for the 2025 season. [ 25 ] Additional sponsors include HLC Trucking Company and Ohio West Virginia Excavating Co.
On top of this, CFL's parent, RSI, was facing internal conflict. RSI's regional carriers were non-union but employees of Roadway Express, RSI’s national LTL carrier, were unionized under the Teamsters. Over the years, the Teamsters had negotiated salary and benefit packages for Roadway Express workers up to 30% higher than RSI's non-union ...
[2] [3] Con-way Freight was the largest division of Con-way, Inc. with 16,600 employees, more than 365 operating locations, 16,000 dock doors and 32,750 tractors and trailers. The company was founded by Consolidated Freightways (CF) of Portland, Oregon, as a non-union spinoff, for LTL hauling.
The company's direct LTL service area is the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest US. The company is under shared ownership with LTL carriers Dorhn Transfer, US Special Delivery, US Cargo, and Ross Express with which it interlines freight. [1] Its interline agreements with other carriers in the US and Canada provide LTL services across both countries. [27]