CON-WAY Southern Express Announces Facility Move to Tyler, Texas
7 March 2000
Company Cites Increasing Business Demand as Reason
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Con-Way Southern Express announced today that the company will move its Longview, Texas service center operations to Tyler, Texas effective May 1 of this year. The company cited increased business as the reason for the move."We continue to experience increased business volumes from the Tyler and Longview areas. Providing superior service to customers in these areas is our number one priority and moving our Longview operation to Tyler will allow us to continue providing those high service levels," said John T. Hickerson, president and chief executive officer of CSE. Con-Way Southern Express is a component company of Con-Way Transportation Services (CON-WAY), and provides regional less-than-truckload freight services for commercial and industrial shippers.
The Tyler facility, located at Highway 155 and Interstate 20, will replace CSE's current Longview facility on Highway 31, though operations will still be conducted under the Longview name. Modifications of the existing building on the five-acre site in Tyler will be completed in April. The 17,000 square foot building will include 3,000 square feet of offices and 14,000 square feet of docking space. The number of dock doors will increase from 20 in Longview to 36 at the Tyler facility. Daily freight handling capacity will more than double from 257,000 pounds to 576,000 pounds. "The new facility was designed with expansion in mind. If increased business volumes dictate, we can easily add another 12 doors to further increase our freight handling capacity," added Hickerson.
CSE's Tyler location will provide next-day service to more than half of Texas and to parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Roy Baisden, current manager at the Longview location, will move to Tyler as service center manager. Baisden began his career in 1979 with Consolidated Freightways (CF). He moved through several managerial promotions before leaving CF to join CON-WAY in 1989 to open its Houston facility. Since 1990 he has been service center manager at Longview.
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, CSE has 5,100 employees, operates 101 service centers and has a fleet of more than 7,800 trucks, tractors and trailers. The CSE service network covers 12 states in the southern and southeastern United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. In partnership with Con-Way Central Express and Con-Way Western Express, CSE provides full regional, inter-regional and transcontinental coast-to-coast service throughout North America.
CSE is an operating component of Con-Way Transportation Services, a $1.9 billion transportation management company that provides time-definite and day-definite freight delivery and logistics services for commercial and industrial businesses. Within the CON-WAY family are regional less-than-truckload carriers Con-Way Central Express, Con-Way Southern Express and Con-Way Western Express; Con-Way Truckload Services, providing multi-modal, full truckload shipping; Con-Way NOW, an expedited carrier specializing in emergency shipment service; and Con-Way Integrated Services, a contract supply chain execution service provider.