Longtime employees of TransForce’s new acquisition in Joplin, Mo., are proudly digging out their old CFI shirts, as the company founded in 1951 as Contract Freighters Inc. goes back to its roots and ...

In conjunction with Heavy Duty Trucking's 100th anniversary, we are highlighting motor carriers that have also stood the test of time. In 1951, Ursul Lewellen started out as an owner-operator in ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] CFI marked seven decades in business Oct. 1 and held a ceremony the week prior to commemorate the anniversary at its headquarters in ...

JOPLIN, MO – North American truckload carrier CFI has appointed Bill Carter to the brand-new position of vice president of logistics, while also appointing Shepard Dunn as vice president of sales.

This story appears in the July 23 print edition of Transport Topics. Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way Inc. launched a major foray into the truckload sector by reaching an agreement last week to buy ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — Twenty-three deserving charities in eight cities across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada received donations from some 3,500 employees of CFI from its annual Truckloads of Treasures holiday ...

With Contract Freighters Inc. and Con-way Inc. tractor-trailer rigs parked nose to nose Friday, CFI President Herb Schmidt announced the completion of the $750 million deal for the merger of the two ...

Editor's note: This is part one in a three-part series on how the trucking industry gives back to the community. Whether it is individual drivers who are supporting causes they care about or large ...