For Lynn Parrish, executive vice president for safety/risk management at IMC Cos. in Memphis, a holding company for five intermodal trucking companies that employs 1,250, HopeWorks potentially offers the promise of matching one need with another. Parrish has one graduate going through long-term training now with the goal of becoming a licensed long-haul commercial truck driver […]

Joel Tracy has been named the first chief information officer at IMC, a national Marine Drayage company focused on international shipments. In his new role, Tracy will be responsible for delivering a broad range of IT initiatives in support of IMC’s logistics businesses. To read more, visit The Daily News.

Trucking industry representatives and employees packed the spacious Tennessee Ballroom at the Hilton Memphis, the gleaming glass hotel in East Memphis, for Carnival Memphis’ salute to the trucking industry. “The trucking industry is the lifeblood of the economy,” said King of Carnival Jim McCullough of General Truck Sales and Service Inc. “Simply put, without trucks […]

After 86 years, D.D. Jones Transfer and Warehouse Co. has dropped out of the transportation industry. The initials emblazoned on the Chesapeake operation’s 31 trucks have been replaced with the red shield of Charleston, S.C.-based Atlantic Intermodal Services. “AIS was willing to take on our entire trucking staff at their Norfolk operations – 50 drivers,” […]

Continuing its expansion at the Norfolk port in Virginia, Memphis-based IMC, announced today the acquisition of a short-distance, high-volume logistics company. IMC bought the marine drayage division of Norfolk-based D.D. Jones Transfer and Warehouse Co., adding 50 professional drivers, 31 trucks and 27 trailers to IMC’s Norfolk-based Atlantic Intermodal Services company. To read the entire […]

Atlantic Intermodal Services, a Charleston, S.C.-based company that specializes in transportation services including import/export cargo shipments, is expecting to double revenues at its Greensboro office. Atlantic’s 2,500-square-foot Greensboro location, which opened last October at 3225 Pinecroft Court as the company’s seventh office, expects to double its current 15 trucks and add to its existing staff […]

Inland Intermodal Logisitics Services vice president of technology solutions David Ulloa speaks with Fox 13 News about Teen Tech Camp, which collaborates with the Memphis Benjamin Library to encourage teens to be future IT leaders. To view the interview, visit Fox 13 News.

The Commerical AppealBy Wayne RisherMay 9, 2013 Memphis-based IMC Companies will boost its headcount to more than 1,000 drivers by acquiring Express America Trucking Inc. IMC said Tuesday that it recently agreed to buy Express America and put the company’s president, Barry Bernard, in a leadership role at Intermodal Cartage Co., one of its units. […]