Integrated Freight Corp., a publicly traded motor freight company headquartered in Sarasota, Fla., is engaged in long-haul, regional, and local service to its customers. Specializing in dry and refrigerated freight truckload services, the company operates chiefly in well-established traffic lanes in the upper Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, Texas, California, and the Atlantic Seaboard.
Incorporated in 2008, Integrated Freight was created for the purpose of acquiring and consolidating mid-sized operating motor freight companies. The company currently operates four subsidiaries – Cross Creek Trucking, Inc.; Morris Transportation, Inc.; Smith Systems Transport, Inc.; and Triple C Transport, Inc. – as independent companies under the management of their founders and stockholders. As this management arrangement continues, Integrated Freight is gradually combining, augmenting, and consolidating the elements of these companies’ operations under the Integrated Freight nationwide management system. Integrated Freight’s acquisitions, to date, have comprised more than 300 tractors and 650 trailers.
Historically, Integrated Freight’s subsidiary companies have operated in well-established geographic traffic lanes that are defined by the distribution patterns of Integrated Freight’s customers. Under its roll-up and integration strategy, the company has been able to take advantage of overlap within the most heavily traveled lanes – particularly between points in the upper Midwest and Texas – to realize increased cost and productivity improvements and also to streamline brokered freight. This has enabled the company to reduce its SG&A costs by streamlining redundant tasks such as financial accounting, dispatch, management, and maintenance of physical locations. The company has been able to secure purchasing power through national accounts for fuel, tires, parts, and insurance, which has allowed Integrated Freight to lower overall fleet maintenance costs through these nationwide service contracts.
Integrated Freight’s goal is to become one of the largest freight carriers in the United States. The company is well underway toward achieving this goal, with current facilities – including regional offices, terminals, drop yards, and maintenance facilities – located throughout the country.
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