Bulk hauler Bulkmatic Transport moves everything from chemicals to flour to petroleum to plastics throughout the US and in Canada and Mexico. Bulkmatic Transport company operates a fleet of about 600 tractors from some 35 terminals, primarily in the eastern half of the US. In addition to trucking, Bulkmatic Transport company provides transloading services -- moving cargo between truck trailers and railcars. It also operates warehouses in the US and Mexico. Bulkmatic was founded in 1965.

Norbert Dentressangle has Europe's air/sea/land transportation and logistics needs covered from all angles. Norbert Dentressangle company transports chemicals and petrochemicals, food, retail goods, consumables, construction materials, automotive parts, and other goods from about 350 facilities located throughout Europe. The group's logistics division provides warehousing, product distribution, packaging, and assembly services. Norbert Dentressangle maintains a fleet of 7,000 tractors and 8,600 trailers. It has in excess of 5 million sq. meters of warehouse space and operates in more than 15 countries; France generates about 50% of revenues. Norbert Dentressangle formed the company as a cross-channel specialist in 1979.

ITAL Logistics is a British freight company with Italian flavor. The firm began by specializing in shipping freight between the UK and Italy, but has since expanded its service to include Spain, Greece, Portugal, and about a half dozen Western European countries. ITAL Logistics provides weekly scheduled and expedited (within 48 hours) freight transport. Within each country, it partners with other regional logistics companies to provide ground and ocean shipping services. Though headquartered in the Manchester area, ITAL Logistics has a depot in the Midlands and in the South of England to provide complete coverage throughout the UK. ITAL Logistics was founded in 2000.

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.

Boyd Bros. Transportation Inc. company transports steel products and building materials, mainly in the eastern two-thirds of the US, on flatbed trailers. Boyd Bros. operates through two trucking units: Boyd and WTI Transport, which provides regional service in the southeastern US. Overall, the company maintains a fleet of some 1,050 tractors and 1,670 trailers. Boyd Bros. also offers freight brokerage services. The company was founded in 1956 by Dempsey Boyd, the father of CEO Gail Cooper. Boyd Bros. was taken private in 2004 and is owned by members of the Boyd family.

Barr-Nunn Transportation aims to be the best, bar none. The dry van truckload carrier provides time-sensitive services throughout the continental US. It uses a fleet of about 700 tractors and 1,700 trailers to transport a variety of freight, ranging from animal feeds to building materials to paper products. The company's Barr-Nunn Logistics unit arranges the transportation of customers' freight via a network of contract carriers, including specialists such as flatbed and refrigerated haulers. Chairman Robert Sturgeon founded Barr-Nunn in 1982.

Alan Ritchey has interests in transportation, agriculture, and construction materials. The company's truckload transportation unit mainly moves mail for the United States Postal Service; in addition, it hauls commodities used by Alan Ritchey's agricultural businesses and general freight. It has a fleet of some 200 trucks and 1,800 trailers. Alan Ritchey also operates mail transport equipment service centers for the Postal Service. The company's Martindale Feed Mill division operates mills, a feed store, and a grain storage facility in Texas; Alan Ritchey also owns a dairy in Oklahoma and a sand mining business in Texas. Alan Ritchey and his family own the company, which he founded in 1963.

Aeroports de Paris operates 14 airports within a 30-mile radius of Paris, including major airports Orly and Charles de Gaulle. Also among the company's properties is Le Bourget, site of the Paris Air Show, and Issy les Moulineaux, a heliport in Paris. ADP is one of the largest airport authorities in the world in terms of passenger traffic; more than 87 million passengers a year pass through its facilities. ADP leads Europe in its handling of freight and mail. The French government owns a 60% stake in ADP, which was taken public in 2006.

Through its operating companies, TransForce is one of Canada's largest providers of transportation and logistics services. Subsidiaries offer truckload transportation of general freight and specialized cargo, as well as less-than-truckload (LTL) tranportation through carrier TST Overland Express. (Less-than-truckload carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Other TransForce units include parcel delivery company Canpar, and logistics and warehousing services. In 2008 the company, which formerly traded as TransForce Income Fund, converted itself from an income fund to a corporation in order to invest more of its income in its business.

New England Motor Freight (NEMF) gets the show on the road every day. The company provides less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services, including expedited freight transportation, primarily in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic US, eastern Canada, and Puerto Rico. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) NEMF operates from about 40 terminals. Alliances with carriers such as AAA Cooper, Midwest Motor Express, and Oak Harbor Freight Lines enable NEMF to extend service to other parts of the US. NEMF is the flagship of several transportation companies controlled by CEO Myron Shevell and his family through Shevell Group.

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