Swift Transportation (SWFT) was founded in 1966. It was a small startup with just one truck. It was primarily operated by the owner, Jerry Moyes. It grew slowly until 1990. In 1990, the trucking ...

This month the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities (MOTU) turns five, and while celebrating its own, relatively short history, MOTU is also paying homage to the longstanding history of ...

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For 133 years, Port Jervis was a bustling railroad city. From the chug-chug of steam engines to the sleek locomotives of the 1980s, trains were the highlight of this little river valley at the ...

As today’s roads, skies and seas are filled with all imaginable craft, it is perhaps rare that we step back and take a look at how transport was in the past. Dr Philip Agius, a zealous transport ...

As Palo Alto struggles to make tough decisions about rail crossings, it may be time to review history. It’s not by accident that we have the city we have today — almost every street and park has a ...

An Elgin man credited with the idea of painting a line down the center of a road among 7 people featured in Bluff City ...

(Image: DEIS for I-80N – a.k.a. Mt Hood Freeway – via City of Portland) When you step back far enough, the history of transportation starts to look less like a river — constant progress toward a final ...

When this nation’s transportation history is reviewed, Peoria must certainly be a part of the discussion. From the 19 th century steamboats that saturated the Illinois River with Peoria as the ...