As a provider of transportation infrastructure management services, Amey UK helps ensure that people can get to the office, and as a provider of business services, the company aims to help the office run smoothly. The company's majority-owned joint venture Tube Lines, manages the Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly lines, including stations and track infrastructure, for the London Underground. Amey also manages rail lines, highways, and local roads. It also offers a variety of facilities management, business process outsourcing, and consulting services. Amey's clients come from the public and private sectors in aviation, defense, education, and transportation. Spanish construction group Ferrovial owns Amey.

PlanGraphics can do more than read a map. The company provides IT services for geographic information systems (GIS), computer-based mapping applications used with database management software to analyze customer demographics, mineral exploration, military surveillance, crop forecasting, and other data. PlanGraphics' customers include government entities, utilities, and corporations, such as Entergy and the US Army Corps of Engineers. In 2009 Integrated Freight Corp., a Florida-based transportation company, acquired a majority stake in PlanGraphics, which then acquired Integrated Freight. The merged company then sold PlanGraphics' operating subsidiary to CEO John Antenucci.

Celadon Group provides long-haul, dry van truckload service throughout North America via subsidiaries Celadon Trucking Services, Celadon Canada, and Mexico-based Jaguar. The group maintains a fleet of about 3,200 tractors and 10,000 trailers. Celadon also offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term, as well as freight brokerage and warehousing services. Its clients have included large shippers with strict time-delivery requirements, such as Alcoa, Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris, and Wal-Mart. An e-commerce unit, TruckersB2B, serves as a purchasing cooperative for smaller trucking fleets and provides discounts on fuel, tires, and satellite systems.

The Roehl in Roehl Transport is pronounced "rail," but Roehl rolls down roads, not train tracks. Roehl Transport hauls a variety of freight with a fleet of some 1,990 tractors and 4,500 trailers. Its equipment includes flatbeds, standard dry vans, dry bulk carriers, and trailers designed to carry extra-heavy loads. Roehl also offers refrigerated transportation and logistics services. The company operates throughout the continental US and Canada; however, it does most of its business east of the Rocky Mountains, particularly in midwestern states. Chairman and CEO Everett Roehl founded Roehl Transport in 1962 with a single truck.

CenTra is Central Transport International, a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier that hauls across North America. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Central Transport and its affiliates operate via some 200 terminals, mainly in the eastern US. CenTra's units include expedited freight transporter CTX, freight forwarder Central Global Express, broker and warehouser Custom Services International, and supply chain manager Logistics Insight (LINC). CenTra also owns the Ambassador Bridge, connecting Detroit with Windsor, Ontario. CEO Manuel Moroun and his son Matthew control freight hauler Universal Truckload as well as CenTra (founded by Manuel's father).

JHT Holdings might very well haul it. Through its subsidiaries, JHT Holdings provides over-the-road transportation of various types of motor vehicles, including commercial trucks and cars. Among its operating units are Active Truck Transport, Automotive Carrier Services, and Unimark. JHT has its roots in Kenosha Auto Transport, a company that was formed in 1933 to haul vehicles made by International Harvester and Nash Motors. Striving to strengthen its balance sheet amid a period of slumping sales, JHT voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2008 and emerged a few months later, in October.

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.

NV Nederlandse Spoorwegen operates nearly 400 stations in the Netherlands. It has a contract agreement to run the Dutch main rail network until 2015. Nederlandse Spoorwegen (also known as Dutch Railways), the holding company for NS Group, moves more than a million people a day in the Netherlands. NS Group primarily operates passenger trains throughout the country (including a high speed train) but has expanded into the UK, through its subsidiary NedRailways, operating in Liverpool and northern England. It also transports passengers in Germany, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic. NS Group's other segments include hub development (management of the train stations) and construction.

Attica Holdings, formerly Attica Enterprises, was founded in 1918 as General Company of Commerce and Industry of Greece. Thankfully Attica doesn't provide ferry service across the River Styx. The Greek ferry company, operating as Blue Star Ferries and the Superfast Ferries, does cross the Adriatic, Baltic, North, and Aegean seas, connecting, respectively, Greece and Italy, Germany and Finland, Scotland and Belgium, and mainland Greece and the Cycladic and Dodecanese islands. With two rollon/rolloff ships, Attica transports cargo between Germany and Finland.

Navajo Express is a leader in long-haul and dedicated transportation. With a network of 1,000 trucks, and 800 Navajo Logistics alliance carriers, the company is able to provide the refrigerated and dry goods industries with unparalleled customer service. The company's team of experienced professionals is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist with equipment capacity and visibility of shipments. Customer service and on-time performance are hallmark at Navajo Express for all of the company's service-sensitive transportation partners.

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