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DELIVERING NEWS, MAKING HISTORY Hurley Transportation turns 60


Hurley trucks lined up at the dock at the Republic & Gazette in 1965.


in 1987. “I guess nowadays we’re very proud of our heritage and look forward to a pretty good future.” With close to 100 trucks and 200


employees, Hurley has come a long way from the two-truck operation Fred Hurley started to transport the Arizona Republic in 1952.


Hurley Transportation Companies Fred Hurley, AMTA president 1969-70


BY TODD TRAUB Contributing Writer


For years Hurley Transportation has


delivered the news. This time it’s making some. Concurrently with the Arizona


Trucking Association’s 75th anniversary, the venerable newspaper hauler based in Phoenix is celebrating a milestone of its own. Hurley Transportation Companies, under the direction of long-time chairman and CEO Bill Ewing, turns 60 this year. “It’s pretty unusual to survive that


long,” said Ewing, 63, who purchased the company from founder Fred Hurley’s family


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subsidiaries still transport the Republic to all major cities in the state, but the company has expanded greatly over time. Mail contracts, warehousing, transporting bread products, and a large interstate general freight operation have been a few of their additional endeavors through the years. By the start of the 21st century, Hurley grew to fourteen locations, with nearly 425 employees operating 250 trucks. In the year 2000 Hurley sold off its freight division and returned its focus to the core business of dedicated contract services. Today, Hurley Distribution Company


provides logistics services for The Arizona Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Tucson Newspapers, Inc., Gannett Offset, and Financial Times. Hurley Dedicated Services provides transportation services for non-newspaper clients like Design Mail, Proctor & Gamble and Lennox


Industries. July of this year Hurley founded “Hurley Trucking Company-East”, opening a new operation in the state of Ohio with plans to expand to additional eastern states. Meanwhile, Hurley Leasing Company provides truck and trailer leasing services to the transportation industry and Hurley Trucking Company provides logistics to Newspaper Agency Corporation in Salt Lake City, offering newspaper distribution services throughout Utah. “We dedicate ourselves to serving


our customers and maintaining a great relationship,” Ewing said. Transporting newspapers has always


been and still is a major part of the operation. Ewing said that will continue despite the hard times befalling print journalism in recent years with the advent of the internet and blogosphere. “We have certainly felt the impact,”


Ewing said, noting a 25 percent drop in revenues over the past four years. But, Ewing said, subscriptions have


“leveled off” and the company will continue to look at maintaining and expanding its newspaper delivery services. Hurley has managed to avoid layoffs through all of this by attrition, and by having the ability to


Continues Arizona Trucking Association 2012 Yearbook


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