Bulk hauler Bulkmatic Transport moves everything from chemicals to flour to petroleum to plastics throughout the US and in Canada and Mexico. Bulkmatic Transport company operates a fleet of about 600 tractors from some 35 terminals, primarily in the eastern half of the US. In addition to trucking, Bulkmatic Transport company provides transloading services -- moving cargo between truck trailers and railcars. It also operates warehouses in the US and Mexico. Bulkmatic was founded in 1965.

Southwest Airlines Co. operates as a passenger airline that provides scheduled air transportation in the United States. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 537 Boeing 737 aircraft and provided service to 68 cities in 35 states. The company also sells frequent flyer credits and related services to companies participating in its Rapid Rewards frequent flyer program, including car rental agencies, hotels, restaurants, and retail locations. Southwest Airlines Co. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

DF Young was founded in 1903. Daniel F. Young provides air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and logistics services to multinational businesses. The company, known as DF Young, also offers ground transportation, including full-truckload (FTL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation, door to door service, and inter-coastal barge transportation. (Freight forwarding companies purchase transportation capacity from carriers and resell it to customers; LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) It operates in five main industry areas: automotive, commercial goods, humanitarian cargo, foreign military sales, and petrochemical. Subsidiary Young Air Cargo Corporation arranges chartered transportation for high security or expedited cargoes.

One of the regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight haulers operated by YRC Regional Transportation, USF Reddaway does business in the western US and in western Canada. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) The carrier operates a fleet of some 2,300 tractors and 7,700 trailers from a network of about 70 terminals. It serves about a dozen states and two Canadian provinces. USF Reddaway extends its service into additional regions of the US through connections with other YRC Regional Transportation carriers, including USF Holland.

Safe Bulkers Company's subsidiaries provide marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, particularly coal, grain and iron ore, along worldwide shipping routes for some of the world's largest users of such services. Safe Bulkers Company's subsidiaries currently own 15 drybulk vessels, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 1,346,900 deadweight tons ("dwt"). The average age of the fleet is 3.80 years as of September 30, 2010. Our fleet currently consists of Panamax, Kamsarmax, Post-Panamax and Capesize class vessels. Seven additional drybulk newbuild vessels have been contracted to be delivered at various times through 2013. Safe Bulkers Company's common stock is listed on the NYSE where it trades under the symbol "SB".

Through its operating companies, TransForce is one of Canada's largest providers of transportation and logistics services. Subsidiaries offer truckload transportation of general freight and specialized cargo, as well as less-than-truckload (LTL) tranportation through carrier TST Overland Express. (Less-than-truckload carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Other TransForce units include parcel delivery company Canpar, and logistics and warehousing services. In 2008 the company, which formerly traded as TransForce Income Fund, converted itself from an income fund to a corporation in order to invest more of its income in its business.

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.

Once a part of "the world's most experienced airline," freight carrier Pan Am Railways operates over a network of about 2,000 miles of track in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and Canada's Atlantic provinces. The company's system is made up primarily of the former Boston & Maine, Maine Central, and Springfield Terminal railroads. Along with its railroad operations the company owns trademarks associated with aviation pioneer Pan Am; Pan Am Railways' boxcars have been painted to include the defunct air carrier's blue-and-white globe logo.

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, doing business as Wabtec Corporation, provides technology-based equipment and services for the rail industry. The company operates through two segments, Freight Group and Transit Group. The Freight Group manufactures and services components for new and existing freight cars and locomotives, builds new switcher locomotives, and rebuilds freight locomotives, as well as provides related heat exchange and cooling systems. The Transit Group manufactures and services components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, typically subway cars and buses, builds new commuter locomotives, and refurbishes subway cars. WAB company’s principal component product lines include railway braking equipment and related components; freight car truck components and undercarriage components; draft gears, couplers, and slack adjusters; air compressors and dryers; positive train control equipment and electronically controlled pneumatic braking products; railway electronics, including event recorders, monitoring equipment, and end of train devices; friction products, including brake shoes and pads; rail and bus door assemblies; accessibility lifts and ramps for buses and subway cars; heat exchangers and cooling products for locomotives and power generation equipment; commuter and switcher locomotives; and transit car and locomotive overhauls. In addition, it designs and builds electronic instrumentation devices for rail and transit markets and manufactures railroad track and signaling products. The company’s customers include railroads and passenger transit authorities in North America, as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, Asia, and South Africa; manufacturers of transportation equipment, such as locomotives, freight cars, subway vehicles, and buses; and lessors of such equipment. WAB company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.

Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) is up there in the pantheon of the world's largest container shipping and logistics companies. Through its APL subsidiary, NOL provides container transportation on the world's major ocean trade routes with a fleet of about 140 vessels. Container shipping services account for about 80% of the company's sales. Its APL Logistics unit provides supply chain management services, primarily in the Americas but also in the Asia/Pacific region and Europe. A third business, APL Terminals, operates container terminals in the Americas and the Asia/Pacific region. Through various entities, the government of Singapore controls about two-thirds of NOL.

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