Accelerates Growth in its Bi-Modal Brokerage
Platform at Radiant Road and Rail
RENTON,
Wash., Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
Radiant Logistics, Inc. (NYSE American: RLGT), a
technology-enabled global transportation and value-added logistics
services company, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary
and U.S. brokerage platform, Radiant Road and Rail, Inc, has opened
a new operating location in Overland
Park, Kansas. The Overland
Park location will augment the Company's robust bi-modal
brokerage operation providing truckload and less-than truck load
trucking; temperature controlled and dry intermodal; asset and
brokered drayage; transloading; and other value-added services.
Steve McCleary will lead the
local customer and carrier facing teams in Overland Park while leveraging Radiant Road
and Rail's robust technology, carrier base and Chicago-based back-office platform. Leading
the group's growing field sales organization will be Ryan Stroup. Both McCleary and Stroup were
formerly part of the leadership team at Yellow Logistics and were
instrumental in building that company's truck brokerage operation
from its inception in 2017 and will report directly to Radiant Road
and Rail's SVP and General Manager, Chris
Brach.
"With the abrupt closure of Yellow, we were able to move quickly
to stand up an operation in Overland
Park, while attracting quite a few very passionate and
talented people looking to minimize service disruption for their
customers," remarked Stroup. "Radiant offered a robust,
technology-enabled operating platform and a solid financial footing
from which we can continue to service our customers. It was truly a
team effort and with the 'hands-on' approach of CEO Bohn Crain, the help of Chris Brach and the extraordinary efforts from
folks working behind the scenes in Chicago and Seattle, we rallied to go from that first
phone call to a full-fledged office with freight on board in about
2 weeks time."
"We are truly excited to welcome such a great team to our
organization," said Founder and CEO, Bohn
Crain. "Over the years we have looked at various acquisition
candidates in the brokerage space to help build out our bi-modal
brokerage capabilities at Radiant Road and Rail but just never
found the right fit. I believe our patience and discipline is going
to be rewarded with the opening of operations in Overland Park. Historically this team could
only sell truckload brokerage due to the business rules in place at
Yellow. Now as part of Radiant, not only will they begin to
sell LTL services, but they can now also offer the full suite
of domestic, international and cross border services available from
the broader Radiant platform. We called this initiative 'Project
Charger' because we believe this is going to super-charge the
growth in our over-the-road brokerage capabilities. Now it is time
to go to work and prove just that."
Contact the Radiant Road & Rail, Overland Park Team
today at rrrkc@radiantdelivers.com.
About Radiant Road and Rail, Inc.
Founded in 1938 and
formerly known as Clipper Exxpress, Radiant Road & Rail, Inc.
is the wholly owned subsidiary and U.S brokerage platform for
Radiant Logistics, Inc. Radiant Road and Rail has a rich history in
the brokerage space and provides customer-centric expertise in the
areas of truckload and less-than truck load trucking; temperature
controlled and dry intermodal; asset and brokered drayage;
transloading; and other value-added services. With long established
relationships across these service offerings, Radiant Road and Rail
is well situated to provide diverse solutions in a challenging and
competitive market. Visit Radiant Road & Rail at:
https://rrs.radiantdelivers.com/ to learn more.
About Radiant Logistics (NYSE
American: RLGT)
Radiant Logistics, Inc.
(www.radiantdelivers.com) operates as a third-party logistics
company, providing technology-enabled global transportation and
value-added logistics services primarily to customers in
the United States and Canada. Through its comprehensive service
officering, Radiant provides domestic and international freight
forwarding along with truck and rail brokerage services to a
diversified account base including manufactures, distributors and
retailers, which it supports from an extensive network of Radiant
and agent-owned offices throughout North
America and other key markets around the world. Radiant's
value-added logistics services include warehouse and distribution,
customs brokerage, order fulfillment, inventory management and
technology services.
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