JR East's "shinkansen" (bullet-train) lines connect metropolitan Tokyo with other major cities. Besides its transportation-related operations, JR East gets revenue from leasing restaurant and retail space in its stations and from managing shopping centers and office buildings on property that has been developed near its stations. If you want to ride the rails into Tokyo, you could find yourself cruising at 168 mph aboard a bullet train operated by East Japan Railway, known as JR East. East Japan Railway company carries passengers on more than 7,525 km (4,665 miles) of track in the eastern half of the Japanese mainland, including the Tokyo area.

Staying cool is a must for Stevens Transport. An irregular-route, refrigerated truckload carrier (or reefer), Stevens hauls temperature-controlled cargo throughout the US, covering the 48 contiguous states. Through alliances Stevens also covers every province in Canada and every state in Mexico. The company operates a fleet of about 1,850 tractors and 3,100 refrigerated trailers from a network of more than a dozen service centers. Partnerships with railroads allow Stevens to arrange intermodal transport of temperature-controlled cargo. The company also provides third-party logistics services. Chairman and CEO Steven Aaron owns Stevens Transport, which he founded in 1980.

Knight Transportation drivers don't drive long hours into the night. The truckload carrier instead focuses on short- to medium-haul trips, averaging about 500 miles. From some 35 regional operations centers, mainly in the southern, midwestern, and western US, Knight carries such cargo as consumer goods, food and beverages, and paper products. It has a fleet of about 3,700 tractors and 8,500 trailers, including some 700 refrigerated trailers. Besides for-hire hauling, Knight provides dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. It also offers freight brokerage services. Four members of the Knight family collectively own about 30% of the company.

A diversified transportation services company, NFI Industries operates through subsidiaries such as truckload freight carrier National Freight, warehouse operator National Distribution Center, and NFI Interactive Logistics. It provides both over-the-road transportation and dedicated fleet services; overall, it maintains a fleet of about 2,500 tractors and 6,900 trailers. NFI also has about 18 million sq. ft. of warehouse space in almost 60 facilities throughout the US. Catering primarily to the retail, beverage, and food and grocery sectors, the company also owns and manages some 7 million sq. ft. of real estate. Established in 1932 by Israel Brown, NFI is owned and run by members of the founding Brown family.

Ameriflight takes flight across the Americas, delivering time-sensitive packages for banks and for other air cargo carriers. The company serves some 200 communities, primarily in the western US but also elsewhere in the US and in Canada and Mexico. Managing 75,000 packages a day, it operates a fleet of about 170 aircraft, consisting of small jets and turboprops from several manufacturers, from about a dozen hubs. The company serves other air cargo carriers by meeting their larger air freighters at major airports and distributing cargo to markets not easily served by big aircraft. Ameriflight is owned by its management team.

Established in 1978, the company is owned by the Canadian government. In Canada, you can get where you're going via rail. VIA Rail Canada is Canada's national passenger rail service. The company operates some 500 trains weekly and carries about 4 million passengers a year. Its tracks span more than 12,500 km (7,760 miles) from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. With a fleet of about 80 locomotives and 400 passenger cars, the company serves more than 450 communities. VIA Rail offers travel packages aimed at domestic and foreign tourists, along with basic intercity transportation.

AirTran Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, AirTran Airways, Inc., provides scheduled airline services in the United States. It operates scheduled airline service primarily in short-haul markets in the eastern United States, with flights originating and terminating at its hub in Atlanta, Georgia. As of February 1, 2010, the company operated 86 Boeing B717-200 and 52 Boeing B737-700 aircraft offering approximately 700 scheduled flights per day to 63 locations in the United States. AirTran Holdings serves its customers through the Internet, travel agencies, and its reservation call centers. AirTran Holdings was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

Greyhound PackageXpress (GPX) piggybacks on the intercity bus services of parent Greyhound Lines to deliver packages throughout the US. Though GPX uses the buses to transport items, it works with independent couriers to get packages from bus terminals to recipients' doors. Customers include companies from industries such as food, environmental and medical, printing, and technology. Affiliates On Time Delivery and Larson Express serve the Minneapolis/St. Paul and Chicago metropolitan areas, respectively. GPX also contracts with Mexican courier Estafeta to ship parcels from US locations to more than 2,500 postal codes all over Mexico.

Established in 1983, Scriptfleet (formerly Network Express) provides scheduled and rush delivery services, primarily for companies in the pharmaceutical and medical industries. It specializes in delivery and distribution management services for pharmacies that serve nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. It also handles shipments such as lab specimens for medical facilities. The former Network Express was acquired by Ace Expediters, a portfolio company of private equity firm Atlantic Street Capital, in March 2009. It is now one of three divisions within Fleetgistics, a company specializing in same-day scheduled route logistics. (The other two divisions are Medifleet and Partsfleet.)

Celebrate the short, sweet ride: Anacostia Rail Holdings owns short line railroads that offer freight and passenger transportation services. The company operates through the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (182 miles in Illinois and Indiana), Gulf Coast Switching (contract switching, Texas), Louisville & Indiana Railroad (113 miles, Indianapolis to Louisville, Kentucky), New York & Atlantic Railway (269 miles, Long Island), Northern Lines Railway (25 miles, Minnesota), and Pacific Harbor Line (59 miles connecting points between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California). Anacostia railroads run on company-owned track and on lines owned by other railroads, as well as offer logistics services.

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