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.

Watkins & Shepard Trucking offers less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload freight hauling throughout the US from about 20 terminals, mainly west of the Rockies. (LTL carriers consolidate cargo from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) The company's fleet consists of about 630 tractors and 1,600 trailers. Standard dry vans account for the majority of the company's trailers; Watkins & Shepard also uses flatbed trailers. In addition, the company arranges intermodal transportation, which involves hauling freight by multiple methods, such as road and rail. CEO Ray Kuntz and president Steve Williamson own Watkins & Shepard, which was founded in 1974 as Stan Watkins Trucking.

The largest subsidiary of FedEx (about 60% of sales), FedEx Express is responsible for its parent's namesake express delivery business, the world's largest. FedEx Express delivers about 3.5 million packages per day throughout the US and to some 220 countries and territories worldwide. Packages (from envelopes to boxes weighing up to 150 pounds) account for most of the company's sales; FedEx Express also delivers pallets of freight weighing from 151 pounds to 2,200 pounds. The company operates a fleet of about 665 aircraft and about 41,000 motor vehicles and trailers.

Tube Lines Ltd.'s business has gone down the tube -- just where it is supposed to be. Through its 30-year contract with London Underground, the company maintains and improves London's larger underground rail lines (Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly). In addition to maintenance operations, the company provides distribution, emergency services, and training programs to London Underground; it has also upgraded about 100 of its rail stations. Transport for London, the government agency that runs the London Underground, bought the Tube Lines shares owned by construction and rail specialists Amey and Bechtel in 2010 for about £400 million (about $580 million), returning Tube Lines to public ownership.

DryShips, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of drybulk carriers and drilling rigs that operate worldwide. Its drybulk fleet principally carries various drybulk commodities, including bulk items comprising coal, iron ore, and grains; and minor bulk items, such as bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers, and steel products. As of April 6, 2010, the company owned and operated a fleet of 39 drybulk carriers consisting of 7 Capesize, 28 Panamax, 2 Supramax vessels, and 2 Panamax newbuilding vessels with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 3.3 million dwt, as well as owned and operated 2 ultra-deep water semi-submersible drilling rigs and 4 ultra deep-water newbuilding drillships. DryShips Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Koch (pronounced "cook") Companies' collection of eight operating units offers a full menu of transportation services, including truckload freight hauling, logistics, warehousing, and truck and trailer leasing. The company's operations include both long-haul and regional truckload transportation in the US 48-states, as well as capacity in Canada. It also provides dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are often assigned to a retailer long-term. Overall it drives a fleet of about 650 tractors and 1,820 trailers. Led by its founder's second generation, Koch Companies is not related to the Kansas-based conglomerate Koch Industries, which is owned by a family that pronounces its name "coke."

Clarke has Canada covered coast-to-coast. Through Clarke Transport and Clarke Road Transport, the firm provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation. (LTL carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Clarke hauls a variety of goods, including building materials, beverages, metals, pharmaceuticals, and retail products. Its CIS Shipping International runs a time charter vessel transporting goods between Florida and Grand Cayman. Founded in 1921, Clarke operates primarily in Canada, but also in Mexico and the US.

Those familiar brown vans handle most UPS deliveries, but for bigger cargo, there's UPS Ground Freight. The company, known as UPS Freight, provides less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload freight transportation services throughout North America. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) UPS Freight operates a fleet of about 6,700 tractors and 22,100 trailers from a network of more than 200 terminals. In addition to for-hire LTL and truckload freight services, UPS Freight offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. The company is a subsidiary of package delivery giant UPS.

OmniTRAX, Inc. is one of North America’s leading transportation services companies offering a broad range of customized solutions to the industrial and transportation sectors. OmniTRAX company’s core capabilities range from railroad and port services to intermodal and industrial switching operations. Through its affiliation with The Broe Group and its managed companies, OmniTRAX also has the unique capability of offering customers specialized industrial development and real estate solutions, both on and off the OmniTRAX rail network.OmniTRAX boasts an exceptional management team comprised of experts from various aspects of the transportation industry. As a growing company with diverse holdings, it relies on the dedication, creativity, and commitment of its associates to develop innovative business solutions to meet the unique needs of its customers. OmniTRAX’s history of growth and success has been achieved through its entrepreneurial spirit, capital, and its relentless adherence to a core philosophy that reinforces the value of its people and its customers. OmniTRAX company's mission is clear; to provide exceptional value to its customers by providing outstanding service, safely and reliably.

IAIS was formed in 1984 and acquired by RDC in 2004. Regional freight carrier Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) operates over about 600 miles of track running from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago, passing through Iowa along the way. IAIS hauls cargo such as agricultural products, chemicals, coal, ethanol forest products, intermodal containers and trailers, and steel. Because of its central location, the IAIS system connects with all of North America's largest railroads. IAIS has intermodal facilities in Blue Island, Illinois, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd. company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based railroad management and investment company Railroad Development Corp. (RDC).

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