Flag Day is celebrated on June 14th, and commemorates the adoption of the United States national flag by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. The first flag of the United States consisted of thirteen alternating red and white stripes with thirteen white stars in a blue field representing the original thirteen colonies. Today the flag consists of 13 horizontal stripes, seven red alternating with six white. The stripes represent the original 13 colonies, the stars represent the 50 states of the union. The colors of the flag are symbolic as well: Red symbolizes Hardiness and Valor, White symbolizes Purity and Innocence and Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice.
The week of June 14th is National Flag Week, so fly Old Glory on your house, your office building and your rig in honor of the military men and women who protect our flag and country!
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FFE Transportation, Inc.
Frozens Food Express Industries, Inc. was first led to success by Cy Weller, a solutions-driven former attorney from San Antonio who was drafted into the Army. When he returned home in 1943, he found that he no longer had office space for his legal practice. So he used his experience from the Army to buy military equipment, including salvage trucks, from the government to sell to trucking companies. Cy quickly found the demand for and dilemma of transporting perishable items, such as fruit and seafood, across the United States. Though the trucking industry already had refrigerated trucks, there were no trucks in mass production at that time with the deep freezing capacity to transport perishable goods over long distances. Cy was soon purchasing Army refrigerators that were used for international shipment of food and installing these refrigerators into trailers. These were among our nation's first deep refrigeration trailers.
A permit was required to operate a trucking company in Texas. During the process of requesting a permit, Cy ran into a gentleman named Roger Malone who had started a trucking company called Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. Roger Malone decided to exit the trucking business, and by November 1948, Cy Weller had control of the permit and the corporation.
As the business grew, Cy decided to bring in his brother Edgar, also an attorney from San Antonio, to help oversee the operations of a new truckload route taking meat to California and bringing produce back to Texas. Cy also decided to bring in his brother-in-law Stoney Stubbs, who was at the time working at Humble (now known as Exxon) in Houston.
In the next few years, Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. grew tremendously, and Stoney was chosen to run Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. because of his strong administration skills. By December of 1960, Stoney was at the helm of Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc.
Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. became a publicly traded company in 1971 and the stock has repeatedly outperformed it's competitors.
Stoney retired from Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. in the late 1970's.
Stoney's son, Stoney (Mit) Stubbs, Jr., first started working on trucks with his family while he was still in high school. He officially joined FFE in 1960 after he graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He started as an LTL Dispatcher and was promoted through the ranks until he reached his goal of becoming the President and Chief Executive Officer of Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. in 1979.
Under the direction of Mit Stubbs, FFE was named by Fortune magazine as one of the 200 best companies to work for in the United States and it has thrived when other larger trucking companies have refused to enter the refrigerated side of the business due to lower profit margins. Mit Stubbs continues to lead FFE Transportation Services today, as one of the nation's largest refrigerated trucking companies and the nation's only refrigerated transportation services company offering truckload, LTL, intermodal, and logistics services locally and internationally.
FFE drivers continually deliver the success that FFE Transportation Services has maintained for more than 60 years. They have approximately 2400 drivers who service some of the Nation's leading suppliers of pharmaceuticals, food products and other consumer goods. FFE's goal is to provide their drivers with a warm, friendly environment, individual career path options and a large network of customers to service. They offer many options for drivers, at any level in their career and give every driver the guidance and tools for their personal success. FFE Transportation Services began as a family business and they continue to consider themselves a family of employees.
FFE Transportation Services have been successful by maintaining old fashion values, a friendly atmosphere and a vision toward the future. There is no doubt that their Professional Drivers have delivered the success that FFE Transportation Services has enjoyed for so many years, and they remain confident that their drivers will continue to deliver success for many years to come.
To learn more about how you can become part of the FFE Transportation Services family contact them at 1-800-569-9232 or visit
FFEX.net . The opportunities are many, the boundaries limitless. See what FFE Transportation Services has to offer you.
THE GREAT WEST TRUCK SHOW
June 17-19 2010
The Great West Truck Show has it all – major truck, trailer, engine, components and parts manufacturers; show trucks, service providers, trucking recruiting and free on-site truck parking – set in the exciting city of Las Vegas! Come be a part of history as we continue to make the Great West Truck Show the greatest show that Vegas has ever known!
The Great West Truck Show will again reserve
free truck parking for the 2010 show. Parking will be available in the Gold Lot directly across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Hope to see you there!
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