No, TransAm Trucking isn't that movie where Burt Reynolds helps haul beer from Texas to Georgia -- that was Smokey and the Bandit. TransAm Trucking does haul freight in the South, and in most of the rest of the US, and the company has carried a little beer in its time, along with other products that require temperature-controlled transportation. It operates a fleet of about 1,200 tractors and 2,400 refrigerated trailers. But no black Pontiac Trans Ams with T-tops. In addition to for-hire transportation, TransAm Trucking offers dedicated fleet services, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to customers long-term. The company was founded in 1987.

The Steamship Authority is a quasi-public agency, created by the Massachusetts legislature, that competes with other private ferries but also oversees and licenses their operations. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, known to owners of summer homes and year-round residents as the Steamship Authority, provides ferry service from the Massachusetts ports of Woods Hole and Hyannis to the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts. Steamshipauthority operates a fleet of nine vessels designed to carry passengers, vehicles, and other cargo. In 2007, it ferried 2.6 million passengers, 450,000 automobiles, and 153,000 trucks.

TBS International PLC, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ocean transportation of dry cargo through owned and chartered vessels worldwide. The company offers liner, parcel, and bulk services supported by a fleet of multipurpose tweendeckers, and handysize and handymax bulk carriers. Its vessels fleet carries a range of cargo, including industrial goods, project cargo, steel products, metal concentrates, fertilizer, salt, sugar, grain, aggregates, and general cargo. TBS International PLC also provides additional services, such as strategic planning, cargo scheduling, loading, and discharge. In addition, the company offers an integrated shipping solution comprising total project coordination; and door-to-door supply chain management, including port services, terminal operations, trucking, barging, warehousing, distribution, inland pick-up and delivery, and documentation. TBS International PLC serves industrial shippers in various markets, which include mining, steel manufacturing, trading, heavy industry, industrial equipment, and construction. The company operates 49 controlled fleet vessels aggregating approximately 1.48 million dead weight tonnage. TBS International Limited company was formerly known as TBS International Limited and changed its name to TBS International PLC on January 8, 2010. TBS International PLC was founded in 1993 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Since 1938, Pinsly Railroad Company has been dedicated to providing its customers with innovative, dependable transportation services. As a third-generation business, we strive to build long-term relationships and to uphold the Pinsly values of safety, respect, and integrity. Pinsly Railroad Company is led by a highly experienced team of railroad professionals. President John Levine has been in the railroad industry since 1971 and has successfully guided Pinsly through strategic changes and market shifts in his 30 years in senior leadership. Pinsly's four field Vice Presidents have over 100 years of railroading experience between them including various Class I, short line, and industry tenure. Our railroads are supported at headquarters by experts in their respective fields. This combined team is one of the best in the short line industry.

DRS was formed in 1996 following the privatization of the UK railroad in order to transport radioactive and hazardous materials for then parent British Nuclear Fuels Limited. Its current parent is the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Direct Rail Services (DRS) has a track record in the UK rail freight business. Its freight operations primarily transport spent nuclear fuel from UK power stations to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Sellafield reprocessing plant. Direct Rail Services Limited also moves bulk chemicals and low-level nuclear waste as well as consumer goods and time sensitive material across the country.

Watco Companies, Inc. was founded in 1983 by Dick Webb, and is led by his son, Rick. Watco's world of railcar services is a wide one. Watco Companies operates 20 short-line railroads, primarily in the midwestern and southern US but also in the Pacific Northwest and in Appalachia. In addition, Watco offers industrial contract switching services, in which the company operates some two dozen railcar switching facilities located on the sites of manufacturers and other companies that ship freight by rail. Watco also leases and repairs railcars, locomotives, and other equipment; provides warehousing and distribution services, including temperature-controlled storage; and offers transloading of cargo between trucks and trains.

K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. provides marine transportation, distribution, and logistics services for refined petroleum products in the United States. As of September 1, 2009, the company operated a fleet of 69 tank barges and 66 tugboats, which offer services to various customers, including oil companies, oil traders, and oil refiners. K-Sea General Partner L.P. serves as the general partner of the company. K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Like a little acorn, Oak Harbor Freight Lines has grown -- into a mighty interstate less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier. (LTL carriers consolidate cargo from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) The company operates from about 35 terminals in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington; it maintains a fleet of some 500 tractors and 1,800 trailers. It serves the rest of the US through partnerships with LTL carriers such as Dayton Freight, Honolulu Freight Service, New England Motor Freight, and Southeastern Freight Lines. Oak Harbor is owned and run by brothers David and Edward Vander Pol. The company was founded in 1916 and acquired by the Vander Pol family in 1936.

Frozen Food Express Industries, one of the largest temperature-controlled trucking companies in the US. Through its subsidiaries, which include FFE Transportation Services and Lisa Motor Lines, the company transports truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Hauling temperature-sensitive cargo accounts for most of the company's sales. Frozen Food Express Industries also hauls dry freight, under the American Eagle Lines brand, and offers logistics services. Overall, the company maintains a fleet of about 2,000 tractors and 4,000 trailers. FFE traces its roots to 1946.

International Shipholding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides maritime transportation services to commercial and governmental customers primarily under medium to long-term time charters or contracts of affreightment in the United States and internationally. The company also offers ship charter brokerage and agency services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a fleet of 41 ocean-going vessels, including U.S. flag pure car/truck carriers (PCTCs) designed to transport automobiles, trucks, and vehicles; international flag PCTCs with the capability of transporting heavyweight and large dimension trucks and buses; multi-purpose vessels; container vessels; tanker vessels that are used to transport supplies; U.S. flag molten sulphur vessel that is used to carry molten sulphur; and special purpose vessels modified as roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO) vessels to transport loaded rail cars; U.S. flag conveyor belt-equipped self-unloading coal carrier; RO/RO vessels that permit deployment of rolling stock, munitions, and other military cargoes; U.S. flag and international flag container ships; double hull handy-size bulk carrier newbuildings; and bulk carriers. International Shipholding Corporation was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.

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