Daseke’s Smokey Point Distributing’s new state-of-the-art headquarters, for which the company broke ground at a special ceremony in late April, has caught the attention of The Herald Business Journal of Everett. The local business newspaper published a story on July 27 about the company’s new 50,500-square-foot head office, which is twice the size of the […]
Daseke is now the largest owner of flatbed, open-deck and specialized equipment in North America. Daseke has also moved up ten spots from last year; now ranking as the 49th largest for-hire trucking company in the 2015 Transport Topics Top 100 List. Daseke was also ranked no. 4 in revenue growth, year over year. Scott Wheeler, […]
*Reprinted with approval from the Journal of Commerce Daseke Inc., the fastest growing U.S. trucking company, is merging with Bulldog Hiway Express, an open-deck and flatbed carrier with extensive port drayage operations in the Southeast. The combination gives Daseke, which specializes in heavy haul, oversized and specialized freight, a bigger footprint in the Southeast and […]
Phil Byrd is a passionate, humble and religious man. A man with a vision to make the industry he loves a better one. As president and CEO of Bulldog Hiway Express (a Daseke company), and immediate past chairman for the American Trucking Associations (ATA), Phil has been active in the flatbed and specialty trucking industry since […]
Phil Byrd, Sr., Immediate Past Chairman of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), Joins the Daseke Board ADDISON, Texas, July 1, 2015 — Daseke Inc. has announced that Bulldog Hiway Express is merging with the Daseke family of flatbed, open-deck and specialty carriers. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Bulldog Hiway Express, was founded in 1959 and […]
Copyright © Penton, 2015. Used with permission. When you meet the people at Smokey Point Distributing (SPD), a part of Daseke Inc., in Arlington, WA, you can tell right away that this open-deck fleet operation is something very special. It is not just that SPD has one of the best CSA scores in the business […]
The open-deck/specialty drivers of Smokey Point Distributing (SPD) don’t just deliver cargo; They deliver it safely. That record of safety has now been recognized, for the fifth consecutive year, with the highest-level safety award presented annually by Great West Casualty Co., the South Sioux City, Neb. company that insures truckers and fleets. Great West Casualty […]
Writing and playing country music is his passion and “That’s what I’m meant to do in this world,” says Smokey Point driver Nate Moran. It’s also been something of a lifesaver. “It kept me out of trouble,” he says. “It kept me out of going down the wrong road.” Behind that passion is a lot […]
For his lifetime of entrepreneurial success, Don Daseke was recently awarded the McDermond Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship from DePauw University. A graduate of the DePauw class of ‘61, and a devoted alumnus, Don was joined at the ceremony by his wife, Barbara, and introduced by his grandson and DePauw University student, John Daseke. During his acceptance […]
With more than 100 active professional truck drivers who have accumulated more than one million safe consecutive miles while driving for Boyd — of which 28 have two million and four have three million miles under their wheels – Boyd Transportation is brimming with pride. They happen frequently, and they never get old. It’s time […]
