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The Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) is a privately controlled US code used to identify vessel operating common carriers (VOCC). It is typically two to four letters long. The National Motor Freight Traffic Association developed the SCAC code in the 1960s to help road transport companies computerize data and records. [1]
XPO is the second largest provider of less-than-truckload services in North America. [39] [40] LTL is a freight model which involves shipping smaller quantities of goods for multiple customers at a time. [41] In 2022, XPO's CEO stated that the company operates in 99% of US zip codes. [42]
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.
Total Quality Logistics (TQL) is a North American freight brokerage and third-party logistics firm. [4] It was founded in 1997 by Ken Oaks in Cincinnati, and is headquartered in nearby Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States.
The NMFTA assigns and publishes the Standard Carrier Alpha Code™ (SCAC®), a unique two- to four-letter code, for all companies except those codes used for identification of freight containers not operating exclusively in North America, intermodal chassis and trailers, non-railroad owned rail cars, and railroads. NMFTA developed SCAC ...
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 National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) is a North American voluntary standard that provides a comparison of commodities moving in interstate, intrastate and international commerce via freight shipment.
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 ...