focusing on their needs. “I know a lot of friends of mine in the


industry are amazed by the amount of business he’s able to do by himself as a salesperson. … It’s just constant contact, whether it’s phone, email, in person just (asking), ‘What’s going on? How can I take some pain away?’” Pete Jr. said. From the beginning, Pete Sr. began leasing


trucks to the brothers, and he still does at the age of 86. Te brothers also began buying company trucks and hiring owner-operators. Today, the company has about 300 trucks, mostly company-owned, but Al would like to see more owner-operators. It primarily hauls frozen, fresh, dry and retail goods in truckload quantities. Te company has had many service awards from numerous shippers. Te heart of the company’s business is between Omaha, Denver and Chicago and south to Texas, but one division runs into Atlanta while a special division hauls pork and red meat to California for export to Japan and China. Maintenance is all done at the company headquarters and outsourced to dealer vendors.


JOKES WE [HAVE] IS WE HAUL FOOD; WE HAUL BEER. THE ONLY THING THAT WE DON’T HAUL IS CIGARETTES, AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE HAD THE TRIFECTA.”


—AL HILL, PRESIDENT, HILL BROS. TRANSPORTATION About two years ago, the company started


a logistics division, Hill Bros. Logistics, which offers complete supply chain management and domestic logistics and is the company’s fastest growing division. Hill Bros. Logistics is a licensed freight forwarder and non- vessel ocean common carrier that can broker domestic and overseas freight. It serves the food, beverage, electronics, pharmaceutical and other industries nationally and globally with offices in Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago


and Omaha. Te company has been growing slowly and


is planning for the future. It now has more than 300 employees including drivers and office employees. It is purchasing 100 new trucks this year – Volvo 780s and Freightliner Cascadias – predominantly for replacement. Its growth has been slow and steady and entirely organic – no purchases involved. Al would like to keep the company growing to 400 trucks over the next five years “if the


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