Member News: Stewart Transport Inc. Transitions to Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Phoenix, AZ, January 13, 2025 – Stewart Transport Inc. is pleased to announce its transition to 100% employee ownership through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). This new structure will further reinforce Stewart Transport’s commitment to their customers, staff, and community. Founded in 1995 by Collin Stewart, his vision was to become a leading transportation […]
Arizona Trucking Magazine 2024
New and Enhanced ATA Buyers Guide Now Available
The Arizona Trucking Association (“ATA”) is pleased to announce that the exclusive 2021 edition of ATA Buyers’ Guide, the premier resource of relevant products and services for trucking industry professionals is now available at the ATA website at darkslateblue-bear-989395.hostingersite.com/ata/. ATA partnered with Overland, KS-based Strategic Value Media, a leading nationwide provider of print and digital […]
Featured Member: Diamondback Systems
The importance of the trucking industry to the nation’s economy cannot be underestimated. Scott Barnett, the co-owner along with Dan Justus of Diamondback Systems, is sure of that. “If you’ve touched it, it came on a truck someway, somehow. It’s the lifeblood of the country.” Diamondback Systems is a freight shipping and logistics service based […]
Featured Member: Doug Prall – HDS Truck Driving Institute
Featured Member: Doug Prall – HDS Truck Driving Institute Trucking often runs in the blood. The hours spent at the wheel, gnawing away at the miles of asphalt and chasing the horizon seem to burn themselves into the family line. Fathers pass their trade to sons and daughters, who, in turn, keep the wheels turning. […]
Featured Member: Precision Heavy Haul, Inc.
Precision Heavy Haul, Inc. Precision Heavy Haul is a specialist in transporting oversized, overweight and difficult loads. If Mike Poppe, founder and owner of the company was ever content with life’s easy offerings, he wouldn’t have got into trucking. But for a young man who spent summers working for his father, busting tires, servicing equipment […]
Featured Member: Collin Stewart – Stewart Transport
1995 was an important year for Collin Stewart. First, he got a new dog. Then he got married. After that, he and his wife Laura bought a house. Finally, on November 22nd, to be exact, Collin started Stewart Transport. A risky and exciting year, it’s clear that Collin sees 1995 as a defining milestone in […]
2016 ATA Membership Milestones
Below are ATA members celebrating a “membership milestone” in 2016. Listed are the company names and their join date. Please reach out and congratulate these members for their dedication to the transportation industry. New Members All Covered, 1/11/16 Allied Energy, 1/15/16 All City Towing, 2/2/16 Crossroads Equipment Lease & Finance, LLC, 2/23/16 Valley Rain Construction […]
ATA Featured Member: Bulk or Liquid Transport
Passion and persistence are key to success in this and any industry. But you can’t do it alone. That’s one of the biggest lessons Tracy Thomas has learned in her career in transportation. As someone who grew up in the trucking industry, she saw how the relationships built with partners, vendors, customers, employees and peers […]
ATA Featured Member: Jonesco Trucking, Inc. Petroleum & Propane Transporter
Mike Nesbitt, President and Owner of Jonesco Trucking, has been a Head Athletic Trainer, an Instructor, an Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor and a Tenured Associate Professor; but trucking has always been his first love. According to Nesbitt “trucking was my golf game, my recreation, my hobby, my everything!” He would drive fuel trucks for […]