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.

JR East's "shinkansen" (bullet-train) lines connect metropolitan Tokyo with other major cities. Besides its transportation-related operations, JR East gets revenue from leasing restaurant and retail space in its stations and from managing shopping centers and office buildings on property that has been developed near its stations. If you want to ride the rails into Tokyo, you could find yourself cruising at 168 mph aboard a bullet train operated by East Japan Railway, known as JR East. East Japan Railway company carries passengers on more than 7,525 km (4,665 miles) of track in the eastern half of the Japanese mainland, including the Tokyo area.

Landstar System has hitched its star to an asset-light business model. The company's fleet of about 13,300 trailers (including flatbed, refrigerated, and standard dry vans) is operated primarily by independent contractors, and the company's services are marketed by sales agents. Landstar's freight carrier units transport general commodities and goods such as automotive products, building materials, chemicals, and machinery, as well as ammunition and explosives. Customers include third-party logistics providers and government agencies such as the US Department of Defense. In addition to truckload transportation, Landstar offers logistics and warehousing services.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines if you send your freight over the ocean. Known as MOL, the company is one of the world's largest marine transportation companies and operates a fleet of about 900 vessels with an overall capacity of more than 64 million deadweight tons (DWT). The company's fleet includes containerships, bulk cargo carriers, car carriers, tankers, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. MOL also operates cruise ships, tugboats, and domestic ferries. In addition, the company provides logistics services such as warehousing and freight forwarding, operates marine terminals, and holds stakes in finance and real estate businesses.

SkyWest, Inc., headquartered in St. George, Utah, is the holding company for SkyWest Airlines. SkyWest Airlines was founded in 1972 by Ralph Atkin to meet the needs of businessmen traveling between Salt Lake City and St. George, Utah. During the first year of operations, 256 passengers utilized the services of the fledgling airline. In 1985, SkyWest Airlines signed a marketing agreement with Western Airlines to fly for them as Western Express out of their hub in Salt Lake City. In 1987, Delta Air Lines acquired Western. SkyWest then began a partnership with Delta as one of their Connection carriers and today continues that partnership with more than 435 daily flights, operating primarily out of Delta's hub in Salt Lake City. On October 1, 1997, SkyWest began its partnership with United Airlines. SkyWest is now the primary United Express carrier along the West Coast, providing more than 980 daily departures and serving United hubs at Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago O'Hare and Denver.SkyWest began a groundbreaking partnership with AirTran Airways on November 4, 2009. The partnership increases frequencies and destinations from General Mitchell International Airport. In addition to its current partners, SkyWest previously had code-share agreements with Midwest Airlines from 2007 to 2010 out of Milwaukee, Continental Airlines from 1995 to 1997 out of Los Angeles International Airport and from 2003 to 2005 out of Houston Intercontinental Airport. SkyWest Airlines currently employs more than 10,500 employees across 146 cities in 39 states, 6 Canadian Provinces and 1 city in Mexico. Operating over 1,500 flights per day for United Express, Delta Connection and AirTran, SkyWest proudly flies the EMB 120, the Bombardier CRJ200, CRJ700, and the CRJ900. SkyWest Airlines was named the number one on-time mainland airline by the Department of Transportation 2003, 2004, 2005 years in which they carried more than 40 million passengers combined.

Alaska Air Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines, Inc. and Horizon Air Industries, Inc., operates as an airline company serving destinations in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico. Alaska Air Group, Inc. provides passenger air services; and freight and mail services primarily to and within the state of Alaska and on the West Coast. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a fleet of 110 jet aircraft; and Horizon Air Industries operated a fleet of 18 jets and 40 turboprop aircraft. Alaska Air Group, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Truckload carrier Midwest Parts & Equipment, which does business as Midwest Systems, provides a range of freight transportation services. As a truckload carrier, the company specializes in doing its part for intermodal transportation, in which its trucks haul containers that may also move by train, ship, or both on their journey from origin to destination. The company provides service to all states but concentrates on Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. Midwest Systems also leases containers and trailers and provides maintenance services. Founded in 1943 by Earl M. Winkle, the company is owned by company officers Justin Williamson and Thomas Lynch.

Bruce Oakley provides road and river (barge) transportation of dry bulk commodities, as well as grain storage and bulk fertilizer sales. The company's trucking division, which uses both end-dump and pneumatic tank trailers, serves the continental US, Canada, and Mexico. Overall Bruce Oakley operates some 450 trailers. It maintains about half a dozen ports in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Red rivers, and the company's river barge transportation unit operates on those and other inland and intracoastal waterways. Grain storage services are available in five ports in Arkansas. Bruce Oakley was founded in 1968.

Sinotrans Group controls about 60% of Sinotrans Limited, which debuted in 2002. The wave of trade between China and other countries is proving a near unlimited boon to Sinotrans Limited. The company provides air, ocean, road and rail freight forwarding, primarily in China's coastal regions. Freight forwarding services account for about 75% of the company's sales. In addition, Sinotrans offers marine transportation, shipping agency and express delivery, as well as storage and terminal services. Its Sino-foreign venture partners include DHL. Sinotrans is a subsidiary of logistics giant China National Foreign Trade Transportation (Group) Corporation, known as Sinotrans Group, owned by the Chinese government.

Tank truck carrier Miller Transporters hauls bulk commodities such as chemicals and petroleum products from a network of more than 20 terminals in the eastern half of the US. The company operates a fleet of some 500 tractors and 1,100 trailers and carries cargo domestically as well as between the US and Canada and Mexico. A sister company, Miller Intermodal Logistics, arranges the transportation of liquid bulk cargo worldwide. The company that became Miller Transporters was founded in 1942 by Harold Dewey Miller. Its founder's family still owns Miller Transporters.

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