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RGL Specialty Services Partners with Byrne Transportation Services for Over-Size Transportation Needs


      WARRENVILLE, IL, DECEMBER 8, 2011 – Byrne Transportation Services, LLC will partner with RGL Specialty Services, a Wisconsin-based third party logistics company, in providing over-size transportation needs for RGL’s customers.

      Byrne Transportation Services brings to RGL its well-known reputation... Read More

Small Business ready to create U.S. jobs


The National Defense Transportation Association's October, 2011 newsletter, the GRAM, includes John Byrne's essay about U.S. small businesses' ability to create the 14 million jobs our country requires.  Read the NDTA GRAM essay, in which John argues that the companies' creativity, intensity and optimism make them the... Read More

Moving the Dew Tour Equipment, Summer 2011


Byrne Transportation Services Provided Special Equipment Needs for Summer 2011 Dew Tour

      WARRENVILLE, IL, Summer, 2011 –  Byrne Transportation Services, LLC handled special transportation equipment needs for the Summer 2011 Dew Tour, an action sports tour reaching four cities throughout the United States.

     ... Read More

SBA Official Says "This is exhilarating time for small business"


Interview with John Klein, Associate General Counsel for Procurement Law, Small Business Administration

      John Klein, who is a Washington, DC-based font of knowledge and volcano of enthusiasm for the Small Business Administration’s effort to direct billions of dollars in Federal spending toward small... Read More

Moving the Goods, Complying with the Set-Aside


A thought from John Byrne             

                       Americans have an affection for the little guy, the hardworking visionary who achieves success by putting his back into one project after... Read More

Softball Team to Business Team


The management team that is guiding Byrne Transportation Services, LLC began developing its cohesion and trust . . . on a softball diamond in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.

That was during the 1970s, when company President Rick Byrne and Vice President John Byrne met Brad Vestal, now general manager, on a softball team that played at the local Loyola Park diamond.  Rick,... Read More

Byrne Transportation History - If Only Hannibal Had Known


In 219 B.C., the Carthaginian General Hannibal initiated one of the most famous military feats when he led his force across the Alps in an attack on Rome.  Traveling in winter with a force of 50,000 men and about 40 elephants under his command, Hannibal could have used the services of Byrne Transportation Services, LLC.

Unfortunately for the general, the Warrenville, IL company,... Read More

Bruce Williams - Kansas City


      Independent agent Bruce Williams had spent his previous five years in the logistics industry moving military freight for two small freight contactors in the Kansas City area.  But he struggled with the constraints of working for under-staffed, under-funded, small companies that lacked experience and expertise. His earning potential was being... Read More

Doug Melbourne - Portland, OR


     When Doug Melbourne joined Byrne Transportation Services as an independent agent in July of 2010, he brought with him his current customer base. He appreciates that Byrne handles heavy haul needs, as his previous employer did not do a lot of heavy haul brokerage and did not have a lot of contacts with those carriers. Now Doug happily offers heavy haul... Read More

Sure, Visa or Mastercard accepted


            Prefer to use Visa or Mastercard for freight bill payment?

            Byrne Transportation Services, LLC accepts either card.

            "Customers have asked for... Read More