Con-way Freight

Con-way Freight
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTransportation
Founded1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Defunct2015
HeadquartersAnn Arbor Charter Township, Michigan
RevenueIncrease US$ 3.247 billion (2011)[1]
Increase US$ 119.779 million (2011)[1]
Parent Con-way, Inc.
Websitehttp://www.con-way.com/en/freight

Con-way Freight was a less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carrier headquartered in Ann Arbor utilizing a network of freight service centers to provide regional, inter-regional and transcontinental less-than-truckload freight services throughout North America. The business unit provided day-definite delivery service to manufacturing, industrial and retail customers.[2][3] Con-way Freight was the largest division of Con-way, Inc. with 16,600 employees, more than 365 operating locations, 16,000 dock doors and 32,750 tractors and trailers. The company was founded by Consolidated Freightways (CF) of Portland, Oregon as a non union spinoff, for less than truckload hauling. In 2009 Con-way Freight reported revenues of over $2.6 billion.[4] Con-way Inc., including Con-way Freight and sibling company Con-way Truckload, was acquired by XPO Logistics, a primarily non-asset logistics company from Greenwich, Connecticut, in a deal worth $3.5 billion.[5]

  1. ^ a b "2011 Annual Report to Shareholders". Con-way, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  2. ^ "2008 Con-way Annual Report". Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  3. ^ 2009 Annual Report
  4. ^ Con-way website
  5. ^ Baskin, Brian; Chao, Loretta (9 September 2015). "XPO Logistics to Acquire Trucker Con-way in $3 Billion Deal". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 August 2021.