Airlines hire Air Serv to provide the ground-based services that help passengers and cargo take to the skies. Its offerings include cargo handling, ground transportation, passenger services (such as baggage handling, ticket verification, and electric cart drivers), and ramp services. Air Serv operates at about 20 airports throughout the US; the company also does business in the UK. The company has worked with Texas-based International RAM Associates (IRAM) to perform aviation security at about 50 airports since 2009. Customers have included Delta Air Lines, FedEx, and United Continental's United Airlines. Chairman Frank Argenbright, founder of Argenbright Security, started Air Serv in 2002.

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.

EagleOne is privately owned by founder and company president Greg Hasley. No mere carrier pigeon, EagleOne provides scheduled and route delivery and distribution services to more than two dozen cities in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and east Texas. The company primarily transports goods for businesses in the pharmaceutical, hospital, and retail sectors; its fleet, driven by independent contractors, includes tractor-trailers, small and large straight trucks, vans, and pickup trucks. Headquartered in Fort Smith, the same-day regional courier operates branch offices in cities dotting the southeast. EagleOne company also offers warehousing and logistics management services.

Safe Bulkers Company's subsidiaries provide marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, particularly coal, grain and iron ore, along worldwide shipping routes for some of the world's largest users of such services. Safe Bulkers Company's subsidiaries currently own 15 drybulk vessels, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 1,346,900 deadweight tons ("dwt"). The average age of the fleet is 3.80 years as of September 30, 2010. Our fleet currently consists of Panamax, Kamsarmax, Post-Panamax and Capesize class vessels. Seven additional drybulk newbuild vessels have been contracted to be delivered at various times through 2013. Safe Bulkers Company's common stock is listed on the NYSE where it trades under the symbol "SB".

Universal Truckload Services hasn't hauled freight beyond its own galaxy, but the company does cover the US and parts of Canada (Ontario and Quebec). As an "asset-light" provider of truckload freight transportation, the company operates through a network of truck owner-operators rather than employing drivers and investing heavily in equipment. It can call upon a fleet of some 3,400 tractors and 3,400 trailers, including standard dry vans and flatbeds; the majority of its tractors and trailers are owned by others. The company generates business primarily through about 770 sales agents. Trucking magnates Matthew Moroun and his father, Manuel Moroun, control Universal Truckload Services (UTSI).

Bollore makes paper, but it's no paper tiger. Bollore company operates mainly in the transportation and logistics, manufacturing (plastic films and specialty papers), and fuel distribution businesses. Its largest segment, transportation and logistics, includes freight forwarding services and port operations. (As a freight forwarder, Bollore company buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers.) Bollore offers logistics services worldwide but focuses on trade between Europe and Africa, where Bollore company is a leading port operator. Financiere de l'Odet, a holding company whose principal shareholder is Bollore chairman Vincent Bollore, owns a controlling stake in Bollore company.

Empire Truck Lines keeps hauling freight. The regional truckload carrier operates from a network of 10 terminals, mainly in Texas but also in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. It maintains a fleet of more than 350 trucks. Empire Truck Lines specializes in the transportation of intermodal cargo -- freight in containers that can be hauled behind trucks or aboard railcars or ships.Empire Truck Lines company operates throughout the US and serves Mexico through a partner carrier. Customers have included logistics giant Ryder System. Along with freight transportation, Empire Truck Lines offers logistics services.

Dayton Freight Lines is a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier operating in 11 states in the North-Central US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) The company operates a fleet of about 900 tractors and 2,100 trailers from a network of more than 40 terminals. Outside its home territory, Dayton Freight offers service in the rest of the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Guam through alliances with other carriers, including A. Duie Pyle, Oak Harbor Freight Lines, and Southeastern Freight Lines. Founded in 1981, Dayton Freight is owned by the Cronin family, which includes President and CEO Thomas L. Cronin Jr. and EVP Michael D. Cronin.

CCC Transportation (formerly Commercial Carrier Corporation) transports construction materials and other freight with a fleet of more than 1,000 tractors and 2,000 trailers, including dry vans, dry bulk tankers, and flatbeds. Cargo hauled by the company includes dry bulk commodities (cement, fly ash, ground limestone, lime, and slag), consumer products (beverages, glassware, and paper products), and building materials (concrete products, drywall, and lumber). CCC maintains terminals in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia and provides freight transportation services throughout the southeastern US. The company, which was founded in 1953, is a subsidiary of Comcar Industries.

Trucking company Penn Tank Lines specializes in transporting petroleum and petroleum products, including asphalt. The company operates from a network of more than 25 terminals in the eastern half of the US, spanning several states from New Hampshire to Florida. President and CEO Jack McSherry founded Penn Tank Lines in 1974. The company was combined with the petroleum division of Fleet Transport in 1995.

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