CCJ

CCJ Innovator: KLLM’s unique approach to using driving schools, tuition to recruit and retain new drivers

CCJ Innovators profiles carriers and fleets that have found innovative ways to overcome trucking’s challenges. If you know a carrier that has displayed innovation, contact CCJ Editor Jeff Crissey ...
Truckinginfo

New Majority owners for KLLM

KLLM Transport Services, Richland, Miss., has been sold to a group of Jackson, Miss., investors, as some of the last assets of ex-WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers were sold off as part of a lawsuit ...
Fleet Owner

BASF chooses KLLM Transport Services as Carrier of the Year

From left: Grant Pridmore and Tom Gause of BASF, Tony Reynolds of KLLM, Fried-Walter Muenstermann of BASF, Jim Richards of KLLM, Charles (Chuck) Schmidt and Peter Belthoff of BASF. (PRNewsFoto/KLLM ...
Truckinginfo

KLLM to Join the Trucking Alliance

KLLM Transport Services has accepted an invitation to join the Alliance for Driver Safety & Security, also known as The Trucking Alliance, beginning in 2017. KLLM is one of the largest refrigerated ...
Overdrive

KLLM acquiring Maverick’s reefer division, including equipment and drivers

KLLM Transportation has acquired the refrigerated division of Maverick Transportation, with the deal effective Monday, May 27. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. KLLM CEO Jim Richards says the ...
CCJ

KLLM honors 43 drivers at Million Mile Safe Driver Banquet

KLLM Transport Services recently held its annual Million Mile Safe Driver Banquet at the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum to honor those drivers who have driven 1 million or more ...
Transport Topics

KLLM Adds Intermodal Containers With Vector 1550 Refrigeration Units

KLLM Transport Services has added 610 domestic intermodal refrigerated containers that use Carrier Transicold’s thin-profile Vector 1550 refrigeration systems. Using the thinner units creates the ...
Transport Topics

KLLM, Pride Transport Increase Pay for Truck Drivers

KLLM Transport Services and Pride Transport joined the surge of trucking companies set to raise driver pay. Pride Transport increased driver pay by 4 cents per mile Dec. 1. KLLM announced the same day ...
Business Wire

KLLM/FFE Moves Payments Business to EFS

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EFS – a WEX Company (EFS), a leader in fleet payment solutions, today announced that Frozen Food Express (FFE) and its parent company, KLLM Transport Services (KLLM) ...
Business Wire

KLLM Selects Manhattan’s Carrier Management Suite to Optimize Fleet Operations

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) today announced that KLLM Transport Services has selected its Carrier Management Suite to help the company gain more control over its ...
Fleet Owner

Former KLLM Transport chairman dies at 72

William Jackson (Jack) Liles III, the former KLLM Transport Services president, CEO, and chairman who spent 44 years with the company his father helped found, died July 9 in Decatur, Georgia. He was ...