Daylight Transport is on the road. The company provides both truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) services throughout the US. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Daylight Transport aims to compete directly with airfreight carriers with its Urgent Care expedited delivery service. The company uses two-driver teams for faster transport on long hauls, and it tries to minimize intermediate freight handling. Along with its freight hauling services, Daylight Transport offers warehousing and logistics service in California. The company was founded in 1977.

Man makes his own shipwreck, but Smit Internationale has the favor of Neptune on its side. In business for some 170 years, Smit is a global provider of marine salvage services. It is known for its historic retrieval of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Smit company also transports freight in oceangoing, coastal, and river barges, and operates sheerlegs -- floating cranes used in offshore and inland construction projects. Other Smit divisions provide ocean and harbor towage services and manage marine terminals. Smit Internationale N.V. operates a fleet of more than 400 vessels, including about 230 tugboats. In April 2010, Smit was acquired by dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster for E1.4 billion (about $2 billion).

FastShip is developing a high-speed container vessel that would allow the company to transport freight across the Atlantic in less than four days. Finding money to build the ships has taken much longer, however. Once financing has been arranged, Spanish shipyard IZAR is to begin construction of the first three vessels. Loading systems and terminals have been designed for the FastShip system; plans call for the first two terminals to be in Philadelphia and Cherbourg, France. FastShip hopes eventually to serve other shipping lanes, as well.

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides seaborne crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation services internationally. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited company offers marine transportation services for national and independent oil companies and refiners under long, medium, and short-term charters. As of March 31, 2010, it operated a fleet of 46 double-hull tankers, including 3 VLCC tankers, 9 suezmax tankers, 12 aframax tankers, 7 panamax tankers, 6 handymax tankers, 8 handysize tankers, and 1 LNG carrier. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited company was formerly known as MIF Limited and changed its name to Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited in July 2001. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited was founded in 1993 and is based in Athens, Greece.

American Overseas Marine (AMSEA) is not a member of the armed forces stationed in a faraway land, but it does have connections to the US Navy. The company, part of the Marine Systems unit of defense contractor General Dynamics, manages and operates ships for the Military Sealift Command, an arm of the Navy. With a fleet of about 15 vessels, AMSEA transports cargo such as military equipment, supplies, food, and medicine to troops deployed overseas. Its fleet includes large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off (LMSR) vessels, which are designed to carry tanks and armored personnel carriers, and maritime pre-positioning ships (MPS), which are equipped with helicopter landing decks as well as room for freight.

GTS Transportation provides dry van and flatbed truckload freight transportation. In addition to for-hire freight hauling,GTS Transportation company offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. Other GTS units include Aero Bulk, which transports pressurized gases and liquid chemicals, LCT Transportation Services, which handles temperature-controlled freight, and Freight Brokers of America. Collectively, GTS' transportation businesses operate about 1,150 tractors and 2,830 trailers. GTS Transportation was created in 2009 to distance itself from Gainey Corporation, its former business that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2008.

Andrews Transport hauls liquid bulk chemicals and petroleum products throughout the US and in Canada and Mexico. Cargo transported by the company includes coal tar products, gasoline, glue, jet fuel, oil, resins, specialty chemicals, solvents, and wax.Andrews Transport company operates from terminals in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Andrews Transport was formed from the 1980 merger of Corbett Transportation and East Texas Petroleum. It is owned by CEO Bill Andrews, vice chairman Gary Andrews, and Andrews Management.

R+L Carriers wants to add your freight to its trucks. The company provides freight transportation and logistics services throughout the US, primarily operating as a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple carriers into a single truckload.) Its R+L Global segment arranges for international freight to be shipped by air and sea. R+L Carriers offers service in all 50 states, as well as in Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Overall it operates a fleet of some 13,000 tractors and trailers. CEO Ralph Larry Roberts founded the family-owned company in 1965, starting with a single truck that was used to haul furniture.

No, TransAm Trucking isn't that movie where Burt Reynolds helps haul beer from Texas to Georgia -- that was Smokey and the Bandit. TransAm Trucking does haul freight in the South, and in most of the rest of the US, and the company has carried a little beer in its time, along with other products that require temperature-controlled transportation. It operates a fleet of about 1,200 tractors and 2,400 refrigerated trailers. But no black Pontiac Trans Ams with T-tops. In addition to for-hire transportation, TransAm Trucking offers dedicated fleet services, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to customers long-term. The company was founded in 1987.

Pretty Awesome Mileage, that's the goal here. Through its subsidiaries, truckload carrier P.A.M. Transportation Services moves freight over the road throughout the US and in parts of Canada; the company offers service in Mexico through arrangements with other carriers. It has a fleet of about 1,700 tractors and 4,600 trailers overall. A majority of the company's sales come from automakers and suppliers to the auto industry; General Motors accounts for about 25%. For many of its major customers, P.A.M. provides dedicated fleet services, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a particular customer or route long-term.

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