RGL Makes Over-Size Services Available to Clients Through Partnership with Byrne Transportation Services

      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 for handling over-size and complicated “big and ugly” moves. In the past such moves have included an entire chemical plant from Canada to Louisiana, and transporting a submarine shaft coast to coast. RGL Specialty Services provides in-plant material handling, co-packing, transportation brokerage and distribution center operations services to its customers.

      Vice President and Chief Operating Officer John Byrne said, “Our expertise with transporting over-size loads will prove beneficial to RGL’s customers. RGL knows there is no job that is too big or complicated for us to handle. We thrive on such challenges and look forward to a long and helpful relationship with RGL.”

      Wisconsin-based RGL Holdings, Inc., through its family of companies including Leicht, Checker Logistics and RGL Specialty Services, supplies its customers with integrated material management services.   The firm stresses expert capabilities in product handling, storage and transportation supported by flexible capacity and engineered processes.

      As an independent, non-asset-owning freight brokerage, veteran-owned Byrne Transportation Services provides customers with a range of transportation choices vetted by experience and solid relationships with some of the country’s largest supply chain and freight customers and with services providers. Byrne Transportation Services is: General Services Administration (GSA) approved; Veterans Administration (VA) approved; Department of Defense (DOD) approved; and Global Transportation Network (GTN) qualified under the Surface Distribution and Deployment Center (SDDC) program.

SmallBusinessExecutive, Dec., 2011: As small businesses grow, so goes the economy

In this guest editorial published in SmallBusinessExecutive, John Byrne, chief operating officer of Warrenville-based Byrne Transportation Services, discusses why small businesses can be a game-changer for the overall economy.

NDTA GRAM - 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 country's best source of new employment opportunities.

Transport Topics, March 28, 2011 - In an Opinion essay, John Byrne recommends that transportation is good to remember when a company is completing a government contract that includes set-aside requirements for small business.  You can read the essay at  Transport Topics

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.

      “Our expertise with over-size loads and transport of special equipment supported the logistics firm responsible for the tour’s major sponsor,” said John Byrne, chief operating officer.

      Byrne said the Summer 2011 Dew Tour had two 20-foot containers loaded with supplies. Byrne Transportation Services, LLC arranged the loading, unloading and storage of equipment at storage facilities in each city prior to the tour dates.

      Sponsored by Mountain Dew, cities on the Summer 2011 Dew Tour included Ocean City, Maryland (July 21-24); Portland, Oregon (August 11-14); Salt Lake City, Utah (September 8-11); and Las Vegas, NV, where the championship events took place October 13-16. 

      More than 150 of the top action sports athletes competed in the Summer 2011 Dew Tour, in the following categories: skate park and vert; and BMX park, vert and dirt. For the first time, the tour will feature skate bowl.