CTI transports commodities by truck all over the Southwest. The company's dry bulk division transports freight such as cement, fly ash, and lime, and its flatbed unit specializes in hauling block and roof tile. The company also owns a fleet of tank, clam, and pneumatic trailers. CTI's Chemical Transportation unit hauls containerized and bulk chemical waste, both solid and liquid. Overall the company owns 10 terminals and more than 400 trucks. Company president Gregg Gibbons owns CTI, which was founded by his father, G. L. "Rusty" Gibbons, in 1930.

Burns Motor Freight hauls wood products and other cargo in the eastern half of the US and into eastern Canada. Serving timber producers in Appalachia, the company operates from three terminals in West Virginia. Burns Motor Freight is owned and run by members of the Burns family. Fred Burns Sr. founded the company with a single used tractor in 1949.

AutoInfo is still focused on transportation -- but of goods, not people. Through its Sunteck Transport and Eleets Logistics subsidiaries AutoInfo company acts as a freight broker, arranging the transportation of freight for customers in the US and Canada through alliances with both truckload and less-than-truckload carriers, along with air, rail, and ocean transportation providers.AutoInfo company acts as a contract carrier, generating business through a network of sales agents and contracting with truck owner-operators to haul customers' freight. AutoInfo doesn't own any transportation equipment of its own. Its agent support services includes loans for training and expansion.

Horizon Lines, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides container shipping and integrated logistics services. It ships a range of consumer and industrial items, such as refrigerated and non-refrigerated foodstuffs, household goods, auto parts, building materials, and other materials used in manufacturing. The company offers container shipping services to ports within the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Micronesia. Its integrated logistics services comprise rail, truck brokerage, warehousing, distribution, expedited logistics, and non-vessel operating common carrier operations. Horizon Lines, Inc. also offers terminal services. The company operates terminals in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico; contracts for terminal services in seven ports in the continental United States; and the ports in Guam, Yantian, and Xiamen, China, as well as Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In addition, it offers inland transportation services. As of December 20, 2009, the company owned or leased approximately 20 vessels and 18,500 cargo containers. Horizon Lines, Inc. serves consumer and industrial products companies, as well as various agencies of the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense and the U.S. Postal Service. Horizon Lines, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Rand Logistics, Inc. is a leading provider of bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes region. Through its subsidiaries, Rand Logistics, Inc. operates a fleet of ten self-unloading bulk carriers, including eight River Class vessels and one River Class integrated tug/barge unit, and three conventional bulk carriers, of which one is operated under a contract of affreightment. Rand Logistics, Inc. is the only carrier able to offer significant domestic port-to-port services in both Canada and the U.S. on the Great Lakes. Rand Logistics, Inc. Company’s vessels operate under the U.S. Jones Act – which dictates that only ships that are built, crewed and owned by U.S. citizens can operate between U.S. ports – and the Canada Marine Act – which requires Canadian commissioned ships to operate between Canadian ports. Headquartered in New York, NY, Rand Logistics was formed in 2006 through the acquisition of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Lower Lakes Towing Ltd. Common shares of Rand Logistics trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol RLOG.

Wallenius Lines is invested in 180 ships that can carry up to 8,000 cars at one time; overall, it transports about 7 million cars per year. It operates Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and EUKOR Car Carrier with partner Wilh. Wilhelmsen. Wallenius Lines also has minority stakes in United European Car Carriers, American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier, and two logistics companies, American Auto Logistics and Transcar. Before the rubber ever meets the road, new cars and trucks might take a ride from the factory floor on one of Wallenius Lines' carrier ships. Wallenius Lines AB has interests in four subsidiaries that transport rolling cargo, such as new cars, around the world.

Crosby Tugs operates both offshore and on inland waterways. From its base south of New Orleans, Crosby Tugs provides marine towing services to more than 100 customers along the Gulf Coast region. Crosby Tugs, LLC operates a fleet of more than 80 vessels, including both pushboats and tugboats, with engines ranging from 600 horsepower to 15,000 horsepower. Its fleet also includes two pressure barges and a water barge.

This New Penn is a regional, less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carrier that operates in the northeastern US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Next-day deliveries in the New England and mid-Atlantic regions make up the bulk of New Penn Motor Express' shipments; the company also offers service in Canada and in Puerto Rico. It operates a fleet of about 850 tractors and 1,700 trailers from a network of more than 20 terminals. Connections with other carriers, including sister companies in the YRC Regional Transportation family, enable New Penn to provide coast-to-coast service in the US and Canada.

Even though it does have plenty of horsepower, don't look for truckload carrier Triple Crown Services in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, or the Belmont Stakes. The company instead races for business in the field of intermodal transportation, which involves moving freight by multiple methods -- in this case, trucks and trains. Triple Crown maintains a fleet of about 7,500 RoadRailer trailers (manufactured by Wabash National) that can be pulled down the road by tractors or along the rails by locomotives. The company operates from more than a dozen terminals in the US and Canada. A unit of railroad operator Norfolk Southern, Triple Crown was founded in 1986.

Landstar Inway knows the way to the highway. The truckload freight hauler, part of Landstar System's carrier group, calls upon a fleet that includes dry vans, flatbeds, and temperature-controlled vans and containers. Like sister companies Landstar Gemini, Landstar Ligon, and Landstar Ranger, Landstar Inway operates through a network of sales agents and contract carriers.

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