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.

Rail Cargo Austria is a unit of Austria's state-owned railway system, Oesterreichische Bundesbahnen (OBB). Freight railway operator Rail Cargo Austria transports approximately 100 million tons per year of agricultural and automotive products, building materials, chemicals, consumer goods, paper, pharmaceutical, steel, and other goods throughout the nation, as well as to neighboring countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Along with its primary freight transportation operations, the company provides a wide range of logistics services, including freight forwarding, warehousing, and intermodal services, which involve the transportation of cargo by multiple methods, such as train, truck, and ship.

Group Stef-TFE specializes in keeping supply chains cool. The company's Stef unit provides logistics services for temperature-controlled freight; the company's TFE, SDF, and Cavalieri units offer temperature-controlled transportation services; and Tradimar transports frozen seafood. Through its Agrostar unit, Stef-TFE provides information technology services related to its logistics and transportation offerings. Its road transport operating segment (freight services) is the company's most lucrative, representing more than 60% of the company's annual sales; logistics services follows, bringing in 30%. Group Stef-TFE caters chiefly to the French market.

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."

Lakeville Motor Express has expanded to provide less-than-truckload (LTL) services throughout 10 states in the Midwest. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) It operates a fleet of about 900 tractors and trailers from a network of some 35 terminals. It offers service elsewhere in North America through its partners in The Reliance Network, a group of regional LTL carriers. Lakeville Motor Express also offers freight brokerage and logistics services. In December 2009 Roger Wilsey bought the company from the Wren family, which started Lakeville Motor Express in 1921. Wilsey also became CEO.

CEO Mark Tuchmann founded BeavEx Incorporated company in 1989. When it comes to courier services, leave it to BeavEx. BeavEx Incorporated company's slate of offerings includes scheduled same-day delivery, management of customers' interoffice mail systems, and logistics consulting. Some 3,000 independent contractor couriers perform the actual deliveries for BeavEx; what the company brings to the table is its expertise in transportation network management. Banks and health care companies are among BeavEx's major customers. BeavEx Incorporated operates in nearly 40 states, primarily in the eastern US; it also maintains facilities in southwestern and western states.

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.

K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. provides marine transportation, distribution, and logistics services for refined petroleum products in the United States. As of September 1, 2009, the company operated a fleet of 69 tank barges and 66 tugboats, which offer services to various customers, including oil companies, oil traders, and oil refiners. K-Sea General Partner L.P. serves as the general partner of the company. K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Alma Maritime is building its fleet of ships bought from companies that couldn't stay afloat. The company, which formed in 2008, is purchasing a 170,000 DWT Capesize dry bulk carrier and two 150,000 DWT Suezmax oil tankers, and it has plans for four more ships. Alma Maritime will charter the Capesize carrier with EDF Trading (a subsidiary of Electricite de France) and charter the Suezmax tankers with the oil industry. Empire Navigation, a company owned by CEO Stamatis Molaris, will manage Alma Maritime's vessels. By 2011 Alma Maritime will have four more 158,000 DWT Suezmax tankers, all ready to be chartered by Japan's Sanko Steamship. The company filed to go public in 2010.

Portec Rail Products, Inc. engages in the manufacture, supply, and distribution of various rail products in the United States and internationally. It operates in four divisions: Railway Maintenance Products (RMP), Shipping Systems, Portec Rail Nova Scotia Company (Canada), and Portec Rail Products (UK) Ltd. (United Kingdom). The RMP division provides track component, and friction management products and services to railroads, transit systems, and railroad contractors; and railway wayside detection and operating asset data management systems. Its track component products include standard and insulated rail joints, gauge plates, and curve blocks; and friction modifiers. This division also distributes and resells purchased track components and lubricants manufactured by third parties. The Shipping Systems division engineers and sells load securement systems and related products to the railroad freight car market. Its customers include railroads, railcar builders, railcar repair shops, and railcar lessors. The Canada division manufactures rail anchors and rail spikes, and assembles friction management products primarily for Canadian railroads. It also designs, manufactures, and sells friction management products. In addition, this division manufactures stick lubrication and application systems; and Keltrack, a liquid friction modifier. The United Kingdom division offers friction management and track component products and services to the United Kingdom passenger rail network. It also designs, manufactures, and sells material handling equipment, such as overhead and floor conveyors, expandable boom conveyors, racking systems, and mezzanine flooring systems primarily used in manufacturing, distribution, garment, and food industries. Portec Rail Products markets its products directly, as well as through a third party sales representatives, agents, and distributors. Portec Rail Products, Inc. was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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