Visionary Solutions has no problem with its expertise going to waste. The company specializes in the transportation and management of hazardous waste and heavy equipment. The company provides logistical support including environmental management of specialty and orphan waste, waste profiling and packaging, route selection, manifesting, and disposition planning for both government and commercial clients. Visionary Solutions also offers training in emergency response, HazMat (hazardous materials) compliance, transportation support, and transportation security through courses, workshops, seminars, and exercises. Clients have included the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and MACTEC.

Daily Express moves freight not seen every day. The trucking company carries mostly oversized loads (construction machinery, industrial equipment, even gigantic telescope mirrors) on various-sized trailers. Delivery of wind turbine components, a Daily Express specialty, has given the company a boost -- high energy prices have caused headaches for most freight companies but have ramped up demand for alternative energy production, giving Daily Express extra business. The company's fleet consists of more than 700 trailers. It operates throughout the US from a network of about 10 terminals, primarily east of the Mississippi. An affiliate, Plant Site Logistics, provides transportation management services.

Traffic lights smooth the flow of vehicles through intersections, and Traffic Management smoothes the flow of freight worldwide. Catering mainly to the Minnesota region, the company provides a wide range of domestic and international transportation management and freight forwarding services, including the coordination of freight movement by truck, train, ship, and plane. Company president Dawn Montez founded Traffic Management in 1997.

Transtar's strength is rooted in its robust transport services. The company, which moves steel and other products on trains and barges, was formed in the 19th century to serve its parent, steelmaker U.S. Steel. Transtar works from start to finish, hauling raw materials such as iron ore, limestone, coal, and coke to sites; providing in-plant transportation; and moving finished products. In addition to handling transportation for U.S. Steel, Transtar transports freight for other steel companies and for customers in the coal, chemical, oil refining, and forest products industries. Transtar operates subsidiaries in Alabama, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Texas.

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.

Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, provides rail transportation services in North America. It has approximately 32,094 route miles linking Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast ports with the Midwest and eastern United States gateways, and provides several corridors to Mexican gateways. The company offers freight transportation services for agricultural products, including whole grains and related commodities, food, and beverage products; automotive products; chemicals, such as industrial chemicals, plastics, and liquid petroleum products; energy products; industrial products; and intermodal containers. Union Pacific Corporation was founded in 1862 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Crosby Trucking Service hauls truckload containers of general commodities, primarily along the east coast and between the coast and Ohio, Indiana, and the city of Chicago. The company operates from terminals in Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia. It maintains a fleet of about 130 tractors and more than 600 trailers. In addition to freight transportation, Crosby Trucking subsidiaries Crosby Leasing, Crosby Brokerage, and Crosco provide truck leasing and freight brokerage services and manage the company's real estate holdings, respectively. Crosby Trucking Service was founded in 1947 to haul milk to a local creamery.

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.

The BNSF system consists of 23,000 route miles owned by BNSF and 9,000 route miles of trackage rights, which allow BNSF Railway to use tracks owned by other railroads. Freight carried by BNSF Railway includes agricultural, consumer, and industrial products, along with coal. Consumer products, which make up the largest share of the railroad's freight traffic, consist mainly of containerized freight that comes to BNSF Railway from marine shipping lines. The primary subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, BNSF Railway provides freight transportation services over a network of 32,000 miles of track in the western US and Canada.

ABF Freight System knows the ABCs of freight transportation. The primary subsidiary of Arkansas Best, ABF Freight System specializes in national and regional long-haul, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation of general commodities such as apparel, appliances, chemicals, food, furniture, plastics, rubber, and textiles. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) ABF Freight System operates from a network of about 280 terminals throughout the US and Canada and in Puerto Rico. It maintains a fleet of some 4,000 tractors and 17,000 trailers. The company, which traces its origins to 1923, offers service in Mexico through arrangements with Mexican carriers.

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