Freight Carrier Spotlight: Yellow Transportation
Today I’d like to spotlight one of the largest freight carriers around Yellow Transportation.
Yellow Transportation Inc. is the largest subsidiary of YRC Worldwide. Yellow provides regional, national and international transportation and related services to 400,000 customers by applying a wealth of resources. Its mission is to be the leading provider of guaranteed, time-definite, defect-free, hassle-free transportation services for business customers worldwide. Yellow has created a superb track record of high quality, reliability, state-of-the-art tracking and safety.
But who are they?
In 1924, Yellow Cab and Transit Company was founded in Oklahoma City when A.J. Harrell to serve as a bus and taxi company in central Oklahoma. In 1952, the business was purchased by an ownership group headed up by George E. Powell Sr. It was at this time that Yellow became one of the pioneers of consolidating small freight shipments into trailer loads.
Yellow Transit Freight Lines changed its name to Yellow Freight System Inc. in 1968.
During the deregulation of interstate trucking in the 1980s, Yellow Freight System restructured itself on a massive scale by implementing new distribution centers nationwide to better serve its customers.
In 2002, Yellow Freight System changed its name yet again to Yellow Transportation Inc. to reflect the its evolution into a full-service transportation provider.
That’s pretty much the Yellow Transportation history in a nutshell!
For more information visit them at:
myyellow.com
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