RoadOne IntermodaLogistics acquires JZ Expedited Companies

(RoadOne IntermodaLogistics)

Randolph, Mass.-based RoadOne IntermodaLogistics has acquired the JZ Expedited Companies, Jacksonville, Fla.

The addition, according to a news release, will augment RoadOne’s intermodal logistics capacity within Florida and serve as an extension of the company’s national transload and warehousing network. 

The release said the JZ companies will be represented by two RoadOne branded business units: JZI IntermodaLogistics, which will include the former JZ Expedited Trucking, and North Florida Warehouse FTZ, and JZI LogisticsSolutions which will be comprised of JZ Expedited Logistics and JZI Global Supply Chain Management.

“I am thrilled to join RoadOne, a well-established, premiere national intermodal drayage and logistics company and look forward to working closely with company founders, Ken Kellaway and David McLaughlin,” Robert Fox, senior vice president of Operations at JZI, said in the release.
 

 

 

 

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