When PITT OHIO says the freight will be there, the company delivers. That’s because the owner of the fleet expects reliability from his employees and the employees expect it from their supplier, Mack Trucks, Inc.
“Quality of product and reliability” is the way director of maintenance Denny Martin describes how the Pittsburgh-based hauler has expanded a successful LTL business into a [...]

For Quickway Carriers of Nashville, Tennessee, reliability is everything. Fuel economy is a close second. That’s why the hauler for some of the nation’s largest food retailers and manufacturers chose Mack Trucks, Inc. when it upgraded its fleet.
“Those are the two main concerns we have,” said Steve O’Neal, vice president of Equipment and Maintenance at [...]

For Builders Transportation, the savings are in the specs.
The hauler of steel, wire and aluminum products wanted to stock up on EPA’10-compliant tractors to improve safety and reliability but was leery of the expense. So it turned to Mack Trucks, Inc. and its local dealer, who made the purchase affordable.
Builders Transportation ordered 145 Mack® Pinnacle™ [...]

Scott Haines, CEO of the H&K Group, likes a challenge. So when the New Jersey Department of Transportation asked if his company could cut in half the time to refurbish a 12-mile stretch of I-295, Haines immediately got to work. At stake was a $99 million contract with bonuses for timely completion and late penalties [...]

A combination of gutsy decisions and family values has propelled Fox Transportation into the ranks of one of the leading cargo haulers on the West Coast. Faced with potentially catastrophic changes in air quality regulations that could have cut his company’s business in half, Mike Fox did what all good leaders do: he turned adversity into opportunity. Investing heavily in new equipment during the worst recession in generations, Fox Transportation boosted its fleet to 450 trucks and grabbed a larger share of business at two of the world’s biggest ports. The decisions leading up to that success weren’t easy.

Chapman Construction is riding the boom in mobile communications. “In 1997 we started to build new cell phone sites,” said Calvin Hargrave, president of a company that got its start by building electric power lines throughout Texas. “We diversified to fit the need.” When major cell-phone providers started to expand their service in the greater Texas region, Hargrave realized it was time for his company to expand, too. “Sometimes when something’s offered, you go forward. We were taking advantage of opportunity.”

Hospice of the Valley recently called on Jerry Buesing and his team at Buesing Corp. of Phoenix, Arizona, to do what they do best — dig. “We were contracted to mass excavate and shore a basement for a new building on a small plot at 16th and Flower, near the downtown,” said Jim Knapp, vice president of equipment and maintenance. The company’s challenge was to remove the dirt in the most effective, timely and safest manner possible. “There was a very small working area with a steep angle to the street that didn’t give us enough room to put in a ramp,” Knapp said.

When Frank Bryan founded his company in 1883, he used a single horse and wagon to haul supplies to an oil field in McKees Rocks, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A century later Frank Bryan, Inc. fires up a fleet of 32 Mack trucks to build the biggest projects in the region but its philosophy remains the same: take care of all of your stakeholders and don’t overextend yourself.

Competition in New York City’s waste-hauling market is tough. Filco Carting is tougher — thanks to experienced staff and durable equipment. Established in 1910 by Cosmo Filiberto, Filco used a horse and wagon to gather trash and recyclables in the garment district of Manhattan. Today the company is a fourth-generation family-owned business and a pioneer in the waste removal and recycling industry. It has grown to 40 trucks, 75 employees and 5,000 accounts in all five boroughs of New York City, plus Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island and parts of New Jersey. That growth hasn’t been easy.

When Pat Barber founded Superior Transportation Inc. in 1998 he managed the company from the cab of his brand new Mack® Pinnacle.™ He soon outgrew his office. “I had one Mack truck and drove it myself,” said Barber, president of Superior Transportation. “I then went on a full-service leasing plan with Mack. When I got to five trucks I realized I had to find an office and a yard.”