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The company was founded as Livingston Merchant's Co-op in 1958 and incorporated as Averitt Express in 1969. [2] [3] Averitt is owned by Gary Sasser, who purchased the company from its original owner, Thurman Averitt, in October 1971 at the age of 20. At the time of Sasser's purchase, Averitt operated 3 trucks and 5 trailers.
Arkansas-Best changed its name to ABF Freight System Inc. in 1980 [7] and, by 1981, was the eighth largest trucking company in the US operating 106 terminals. [6] It acquired East Texas Motor Freight Lines, a subsidiary of Bright Industries Inc., in 1982, a move which added 44 new terminal cities increasing ABF's reach to a total of 158, [ 9 ...
The client wanted to use Moyes' company to move produce if he was to move down to Phoenix. Carl Moyes did not wish to move to Phoenix due to its climate, but offered his son and one of his trucks to allow Jerry to go and create his own trucking company, Common Market, in 1966. Moyes states that is "where it all got started." [4] [10]
The company operated 16,200 units (12,300 tractors by company drivers and 3,900 owner-operator tractors), a fleet of 48,600 trailers, and 4,500 intermodal containers from 35 terminals in the United States and Mexico, generating just over $2.5 billion in revenue for the year ended December 31, 2009.
Jerry met his wife Mary in 1962 and had two sons and a daughter: Michael Dean McMorris (1964-1996) Scott and Kelly. McMorris served as chairman of the Western Stock Show Association for six years and on the executive committee for 18 years. McMorris died on May 8, 2012, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71 in a hospital in Aurora, Colorado ...
Werner's corporate headquarters Omaha, Nebraska. Werner Enterprises, Inc. is an American transportation and logistics company, serving the United States, Mexico and Canada. . Werner Enterprises stated that it had 2023 revenues of $3.28 billion [7] and over 14,000 employees and contracto
[9] [10] Bulldog Hiway Express, led by former American Trucking Associations Chairman, Phil Byrd, and Hornady Transportation, an Alabama trucking company established in 1928, the oldest company to join to date, both joined the Daseke family in 2015. [11] [12] In 2017, Big Freight Systems became the first Canadian company to join Daseke. [13]
Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. (formerly Covenant Transport, Inc.) is an American company focused on truckload shipping. The company is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The company provides temperature controlled trucking, regional delivery, and longhaul team driver delivery. [1]