Our History

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Where all started

It all started back in 2005 with a vision to provide additional capacity for our customers. What better way to guarantee capacity for your customers than having your own in-house trucking company which would become FX.

What started out as a handful of company trucks in the Chicagoland area quickly grew into much more. Later that year a potential customer reached out to us with a need for capacity in a market we had no footprint at the time (EL Paso, TX). We strategically put a plan in place to provide an immediate solution which consisted of providing them with available empty trailers for loading.

We had to add capacity quickly and started recruiting in EL Paso and brought on our first group of Owner Operators from that area.

It wasn’t long before we realized El Paso, Texas was going to be our new home! It was the perfect location to get started. At the time, we went to the truck stops around El Paso and started looking for Owner Operators. We asked a very simple question at the time “How do you want to run?”

It wasn’t long before they started referring more Owners and we started to grow organically. In 2010, we started a recruiting department to start bringing on the referred Owners and to grow our fleet.

We started with eight Owners in El Paso

We started with eight Owners in El Paso and gave them the consistency and miles they had been searching for. It wasn’t long before they started referring more Owners and we started to grow organically. In 2010, we started a recruiting department to start bringing on the referred Owners and to grow our fleet

In 2014 we had the opportunity to grow and add another terminal in McAllen, TX (Pharr) as we wanted to expand our border town expertise and support our customers need for additional capacity in another market. Up until 2015 FX was an all owner operator fleet outside of our Private Fleet in Chicago and our local drivers in El Paso, Dallas, and McAllen.

FX decided to purchase 20 tractors and add company drivers to our National OTR fleet to grow our footprint and provide additional flexibility to our customers’ needs at either border terminal or out in the market. Stay tuned on where FX will be opening it’s next Terminal!