Aim Transportation Solutions, a family-owned and -operated leading provider of commercial fleet services, has moved into the neighborhood to better support its growing dedicated fleet partnership with local Parkersburg business Wincore Window Company, a leading producer of windows and doors. This expansion marks an exciting milestone in the growing relationship between Aim and Wincore as well as for Aim as it continues to grow and serve the needs of its customers at more than 100 locations and operations across the United States.
Aim Transportation Solutions’ team had the pleasure of collaborating for a routine meeting—which highlighted a monumental achievement—with the driver and helper staff of their long-standing Integrated Logistics partner, Family Express.
Family Express, a renowned chain of 81 convenience stores in Indiana, has been a cherished customer of Aim Integrated Logistics for many years. Originating on Christmas Day in 1975 under the leadership of President and CEO Gus Olympidis, this award-winning chain continues to expand, with plans for new locations currently in progress, and Aim is grateful to play a role in their success.
In a world dominated by corporate giants, two family-owned and -operated businesses have come together in a strategic business partnership. Aim’s integration with leading pallet provider, Millwood, Inc, announced in September, is now blossoming and expanding into the great state of Texas. What began as two Ohio-based companies, headquartered just 14 miles apart, recognizing the potential for mutual success through combined resources, knowledge, and experience has evolved into a multi-state expansion and a lasting bond forged between two expanding companies with small-town values.
Since the vital role a truck driver plays happens behind the scenes, it’s easy for many to overlook how critical they are to the American way of life. At Aim, however, drivers are anything but overlooked. They, along with our diesel mechanics, are front and center in all that we do.
Celebrating National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (NTDAW) is one of many ways Aim shows appreciation for our drivers. For those unfamiliar, this weeklong event calls upon Americans to show their appreciation for the country’s 3.6 million professional truck drivers and the fundamental role they carry out with pride and humility.
While Aim doesn’t need a special reminder of how crucial our truck drivers are for us to be able to provide best-in-class dedicated fleet services through our Aim Integrated Logistics division, Aim never misses seizing NTDAW to give our professional drivers an extra helping of appreciation.
In a world of rapid change, evolving work dynamics and shifting economic landscapes, it’s an extraordinary achievement for an individual to celebrate 30 years at a single company. Dave Gurska, Aim Integrated Logistics’ Chief Operating Officer, recently marked three decades of unwavering dedication and commitment to Aim Transportation Solutions.
Let’s rewind to 1991, right before Dave’s 30-year journey at Aim began. Dave’s education in business administration from Penn State-Behrend set the stage for him to start work for his father’s startup company. However, the economy then was in rough shape, and after a couple of years, they decided he needed to go out on his own. Dave’s next stop: Aim.
This year marks five years since Industrial Commodities, Inc. (ICI Foods) joined the Aim Integrated Logistics team. As a celebration of this partnership and a gesture of appreciation, Senior Vice President of Integrated Sales Tom Reda and Regional Director of Logistics Tommy Culpepper traveled to Kings Mountain, NC to take the ICI team out for a night on the town.
Reda and Culpepper were joined by ICI drivers and partners for a tour of the ICI plant and dinner.
“Facility tours and business dinners like these allow us to forge meaningful, trusted, long-lasting one-on-one relationships with our customers,” said Senior VP of Integrated Sales Tom Reda. “We were grateful to have the ICI team take the time to join us to break bread and celebrate five years of partnership.”
Olympic Steel, an Ohio-based steel distributor and longtime Aim customer, has expanded its partnership with Aim Integrated Logistics by adding dedicated fleet services in Bettendorf, Iowa, and Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.
Representatives from Aim Transportation Solutions recently traveled to Warsaw, IN, to meet with Creighton Brothers, the renowned egg producer, in preparation for an exciting partnership kicking off March 5.
Creighton Brothers eggs have delighted families for nearly 100 years and running. Now in its fourth generation, the family business produces nearly 1-billion eggs each year.
What’s truly astounding about this operation is Creighton Brothers’ involvement in every layer of egg production. Across 8,000 acres of land, they operate a number of growing and laying farms, crop farms for feed production, a feed mill facility and an egg processing plant.
Aim Transportation Solutions, a family-owned and -operated provider of commercial trucks and transportation services for more than 50 years, welcomes Frank DeMain III to the role of Director of National Accounts & Sales for Aim Integrated Logistics. In this key position, DeMain will be a single point of contact and support for Aim’s valued dedicated fleet customers across the country that operate out of multiple locations.
In 2006, Aim Transportation Solutions and Olympic Steel shook hands for the first time. The deal began as a handful of full-service trucks at the steel distributor’s Chambersburg, PA, site, one of their 41 locations nationwide. Since then, the partnership between Aim and Olympic Steel has been one of mutual growth, trusted relationships and persistent support. This history, confidence and reliability has led to the next evolution in Aim and Olympic Steel’s partnership: dedicated fleet services with Aim Integrated Logistics.