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This expansion added 979 new zip codes, [17] an 18 percent increase of their delivery coverage. [18] In April 2023, the company announced plans to change its name to OnTrac. [19] By 2022, OnTrac's service area covered 80 percent of the U.S population across 31 states and Washington, D.C. [20]
The service provides facilities to C.H. Robinson employees, customers, and service providers to manage supply chain logistics, transportation, and sourcing activities on a global scale. [ 6 ] [ 27 ] TMC, a division of C.H. Robinson, [ 28 ] provides support for C.H. Robinson’s network through its Managed TMS, a combination of global ...
TForce Freight, a subsidiary of TFI International, is an American less than truckload (LTL) freight carrier based in Richmond, Virginia. [1] The company was founded in 1935 as Overnite Transportation, [2] the name it used until 2006 when it was rebranded UPS Freight by new owner UPS.
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. By 1932 the trucking business was also hauling general freight and provided enough revenue for Estes to hire his first driver.
The combination of Con-way Truckload and CFI provided a number of benefits. CFI had been Con-way Freight's largest provider of contract service for long-haul transcontinental truckload transportation. CFI had operations in Mexico for more than 20 years and was already one of the largest cross-border truckload carriers.
In 2006, the U.S. trucking industry employed 1.8 million drivers of heavy trucks. [79] A major problem for the long-haul trucking industry is that a large percentage of these drivers are aging, and are expected to retire. Very few new hires are expected in the near future, resulting in a driver shortage.
ZCTAs or ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the census equivalent of ZIP codes used for statistical purposes. The reason why regular ZIP codes are not used is because they are defined by routes rather than geographic boundaries. Thus, they have the tendency to overlap and otherwise create difficulties.
Roadway Express, Inc. was an American less than truckload (LTL) trucking company. Roadway Express and its holding company, Roadway Corporation, were acquired by logistics holding company Yellow Corporation in 2003, and the parent companies were merged to form Yellow Roadway Corporation, later renamed YRC Worldwide.