No. 001
Marvin Halverson
Linehaul
Cedar Rapids ↔ Omaha
“Twelve years on this lane. The shop in Council Bluffs leaves a coffee out for me. That's the job.”
- Years driving
- 33 yrs
- With Pinegrove
- Since 2013
The team
The people behind
your freight.
At a regional carrier, the org chart and the dispatch board are the same document. These are the people who answer the radio when your shipment is moving, and the ones who pick up when it isn't.
The driver corps
72 drivers across the network. This is a sample.
No. 002
Renata Cole
City P&D
Cedar Rapids metro
“I know which docks open early. I know which ones forgot the key. I plan the day around the people, not the routes.”
- Years driving
- 11 yrs
- With Pinegrove
- Since 2019
No. 003
Walter Krieg
Dock supervisor
Cedar Rapids HQ
“The trailer pool is my problem. If a load misses the cut, that's on me. So we don't miss the cut.”
- Years driving
- 27 yrs (driving + dock)
- With Pinegrove
- Since 2008
No. 004
Eugene Park
Linehaul team driver
Cedar Rapids ↔ Madison
“Sleeper cabs and a route I could drive blindfolded. I don't want a desk. I want the road and the radio.”
- Years driving
- 19 yrs
- With Pinegrove
- Since 2016
Three of six terminal managers.
Annie Halverson
Cedar Rapids, HQ dispatch
Runs the radio room. Daughter of the founder. Reaches the cab on the second ring, every time.
Theo Pierce
Kansas City, terminal manager
Twenty-seven years in LTL. Built the KC dock from a single bay in 2009.
Helen Bauer
Madison, terminal manager
Started as a dock loader, runs the entire Wisconsin operation now. Knows every shipper by first name.
Why we still answer the phone.
Every regional LTL carrier in the country says the same things on its homepage. On-time. Reliable. Family-owned. The words have stopped meaning anything.
What still means something: a driver who has worked the same lane for ten years and knows the loading-dock manager by first name. A dispatcher who reroutes a truck because she remembers that the customer's freight elevator goes out every February. A terminal manager who started as a dock loader and stayed.
We hire for tenure and we pay for it. The driver corps averages eighteen years on the road. Three of our six terminal managers came up off the dock. The phone number on the homepage rings a real desk in Cedar Rapids, not a routing tree in Mumbai.
Most days that's invisible. The freight gets there, the dock manager signs the BOL, nobody calls anybody. The days it isn't invisible are the ones that earn the next contract, and on those days, you want a regional carrier with a switchboard, not a national with a chatbot.
Driving for a living? We're always hiring veteran linehaul.