O&S Trucking Inc. to Open in Ohio

O&S Trucking Inc. to Open in Ohio
March 24, 2008

O&S Trucking Inc., a worker-owned firm based in Springfield, Missouri, said that plans of opening its first branch hub in Springfield, Ohio are afoot, and the company is expected to be fully operational in Ohio by the 1st April.

Brian Underhill, vice president of Ohio operations for O&S Trucking Inc., spoke in a release of the company’s initial plan of opening a branch in Columbus. The company said that such a plan was later ruled out due to the 11-hour dispatch time from headquarters, which, if the law limiting 11 hours of driving in a 14-hour time period changes, could prevent a driver from reaching Columbus in one shift.

Underhill and a fleet manager will take charge of Ohio operations. By the end of the year, a third employee will possibly be hired along with 50 drivers.

O&S Trucking Inc., which currently has 100 employees in Missouri and 300 company drivers, owner-operators and lease-purchase drivers, hauls refrigerated trailers. Its business extends from Oklahoma City in the west to Maine in the east and from North Carolina in the south to the Great Lakes states in the north. Its clients include Dole Food Company Inc., Kraft Foods Inc., Tyson Foods Inc., and Reckitt Benckiser PLC.