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Corporate Profile:
The various brands of Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. ("FFEX") together comprise one of the largest trucking companies in North America, but size is not what company officials like to talk about.
FFEX Chairman and CEO Stoney M. (Mit) Stubbs, Jr. explains the company's philosophy this way: "We weren't born big. We've grown because we've never viewed ourselves as a trucking company. We're a service company that just happens to use trucks as one of the tools to deliver our service."
Certainly, a focus on service in any business promotes growth. But in the case of FFE, this "we're-not-a-trucking-company" attitude has-over a period of more than 60 years-created a company that is sometimes unique, usually unusual, almost always hard to describe, and always impossible to pigeonhole.
Some examples will prove the points:
The trucking industry, which is more than 97% non-refrigerated (or,"dry"), has historically viewed itself as twins -- one transporting full-truckload cargo and the other less-than-truckload shipments. And ne're the twain shall meet.
And then, there is FFEX which is: - The only carrier offering any combination of refrigerated or dry full-truckload and less-than-truckload service, from coast to coast, from border to border, in the United States. The company calls it "full service".
- The only carrier offering both full-truckload and less-than-truckload service into and out of Mexico and Canada-from Montreal to Mexico City. The only carrier offering refrigerated or dry continent-wide, less-than-truckload service on a regular schedule-like a bus line.
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