Inbound Logistics Magazine Awarded Epes Transport System, LLC as a Top 100 Trucker
Inbound Logistics' Top 100 Truckers list serves as a qualitative assessment of service providers IL editors determine are best equipped to meet and surpass our readers' evolving motor freight transportation needs. The process of distilling the Top 100 is never simple. Each year, Inbound Logistics editors carefully review submitted data, conduct in-person interviews, and online research before choosing the top transportation companies to serve our readers' expanding trucking and logistics needs. From a pool of more than 200 businesses, IL editors chose this year's Top 100 Truckers. The companies we chose as service providers are those that, in the opinion of the editors of IL, provide the wide range of operational capabilities and experience needed to meet readers' transformational supply chain and logistics needs.
"Our readers tell us time and again they need solid carrier partners that can stand with them in this challenging economic environment. Inbound Logistics recognizes Epes Transport as a 2022 Top 100 Trucker for consistently providing premium service, reliability, scalability - the watchwords of supply chain professionals who need to provide service to their increasingly demanding customers. Reliable transportation partners such as Epes Transport allow shippers to efficiently exceed customer expectations." Felecia Stratton, Editor, Inbound Logistics
Epes Transport was founded in 1931 in Blackstone, Virginia as a tobacco hauler with three trucks. Originally known as "The Transport Company," it began as a family-owned business and continued that way for over 55 years. Epes Transport was purchased in September of 1987 by Epes Carriers, Inc., in Greensboro, North Carolina. Penske Logistics, based in Reading, Pennsylvania acquired Epes Transport System in 2018. Today, Epes Transport is the transportation solutions provider of choice for the eastern two-thirds of the United States, with over 1550 tractors and more than 7100 trailers. Epes has been named on the lists of Top Workplaces, Best Fleets to Drive For, Most Valuable Employer Military Winner, among many others.
Inbound Logistics is the leading content platform targeted toward business logistics and supply chain managers. Its editorial mission is to help companies of all sizes better manage corporate resources by transforming their companies into demand-driven enterprises. More information is available at www.inboundlogistics.com