FreightWaves Haul of Fame: Roadway Express was an LTL leader for decades
FreightWaves Haul of Fame: Roadway Express was an LTL leader for decades A Yellow tractor pulls a Roadway and a Yellow trailer. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) The U.S. trucking industry grew in the years following World War I. Nonetheless, the industry was still in its early days, and railroads were the primary method of transportation for goods from point of manufacture to point of sale. Early history This did not deter brothers Carroll and Galen Roush, who founded Roadway Express in Akron, Ohio in 1930. Roadway Express entered the trucking industry as a less-than-truckload (LTL) ...
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