Southeastern Freight Lines expands into Kentucky
Lexington, S.C.-based Southeastern Freight Lines is expanding its operations into Kentucky.
The company, which provides regional less-than-truckload transportation services, is opening four new service centers to serve Kentucky in response to a growing customer-service need. The centers will be in Lexington, Louisville and Bowling Green as well as Cincinnati, Ohio, according to a news release.
The new facilities will employ more than 40 associates, including service center managers and pick-up and delivery drivers. They are scheduled to open and begin operations on March 2. Here in Louisville, the service center will be at 2220 S. Seventh Street, south of Algonquin Parkway, and will have 48 docking doors. Overall, the company will add 134 docking doors with its four new centers.
Records on the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator's website show that the Seventh Street property is owned by Raitt Corp., a Florida-based real estate firm. According to its website, Raitt owns and manages industry, commercial and residential property in seven states.
With the new centers, Southeastern Freight Lines aims to maximize delivery performance and minimize travel times, the release said
"Expanding into Kentucky is a natural extension of Southeastern's footprint," Mike Heaton, senior vice president of sales and marketing, said in the release. "After just recently celebrating 2014 revenue of $1 billion, the expansion comes at a natural time of growth for the company."
Logistics is a key economic sector in Louisville. Last year, I wrote about Dayton Freight, another less-than-truckload transportation service provider, finishing an expansion project.
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