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XPO, Inc. is an American transportation company that conducts less-than-truckload shipping in North America. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The company has headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut , and has 564 locations globally.
The idea for Menlo Logistics was developed in the late 1980s. At that time, CF Inc.’s director of marketing, John Williford, presented the idea for the company's creation — an organization that offered warehouse, inventory, and transportation management as well as full integration of supply chain links through customized systems and software — to upper management.
The Standard Carrier Alpha Code, a two-to-four letter identification, is used by the transportation industry to identify freight carriers in computer systems and shipping documents such as Bill of Lading, Freight Bill, Packing List, and Purchase Order.
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 ...
On September 9, 2015, Con-way Inc. (including Con-way Freight) was acquired by XPO, Inc. [8] Roughly a year later, on October 27, 2016, XPO, Inc. completed the sale of Con-way Truckload, its recently acquired full-truckload division (3,000 tractors, 7,500 trailers, and 29 locations) from Con-way Freight to the Canadian based TFI International ...
It is a unique ID number or code assigned to a package or parcel. The tracking number is typically printed on the shipping label as a bar code that can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader or smartphone. In the United States, some of the carriers using tracking numbers include UPS, [1] FedEx, [2] and the United States Postal Service. [3]
In December 2020, XPO, Inc. announced that it would spin off its global contract logistics segment into a separate company. [10] In March 2021, XPO announced the new name of the firm as GXO Logistics Inc. [11] The spin-off was completed on August 2, 2021, [3] with American businessman Brad Jacobs named as Non-Executive Chairman, Malcolm Wilson as CEO; formerly the CEO of XPO, Inc. European ...
For a short period between 2015 and 2016, the company was owned by XPO, Inc. and known as XPO, Inc. Truckload. In 2016, it was acquired by Canadian logistics company TFI International who returned it to its pre-2007 operations as a standalone truckload company under its original name, CFI. TFI sold the company to Heartland in 2022.