KAG Buys Carbon Categorical – Fleet Administration
Carbon Categorical and its workforce will develop into a part of KAG’s Specialty Merchandise division.
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Ohio-based Kenan Benefit Group has acquired Carbon Categorical Inc., a Wharton, New Jersey- based mostly firm that transports liquid bulk merchandise all through North America.
The whole Carbon Categorical workforce will be a part of KAG, North America’s largest tank truck transporter and logistics supplier, inside its Specialty Merchandise division, together with roughly 65 skilled drivers/impartial contractors.
Carbon Categorical Govt Chairman and founder Steve Rush will stay with the corporate all through the transition and President Sean McAllister will proceed to handle the day by day operations. McAllister may even look to capitalize on development alternatives with the extra belongings and assets KAG can present.
Rush, a 2015 HDT Truck Fleet Innovator, has made a reputation for himself within the trade by doing issues otherwise, together with being an early adopter of digital logs and placing drivers up in lodges in a single day. The corporate he based after a profession as a driver and owner-operator transports chemical compounds, transformer oil, motor oil, lubricants and water therapy chemical compounds.
KAG this yr additionally purchased 25-year-old Ok-Restricted and Louisiana-based American PetroLog.
Karen Rizzuto, KAG’s SVP of Operations, Specialty Merchandise, referred to as the Carbon Categorical acquisition “an important strategic match to our growth within the specialty merchandise market. Their working area and buyer base enhances our footprint right this moment, but additionally gives extra growth alternatives within the Northeastern U.S.
“Together with an amazing consideration to customer support, the management workforce focuses on an employee-centric mannequin with a robust emphasis on security,” she added. “This dedication is vital to all of us.”
Drivers are a serious focus at Carbon Categorical, the place founder Steve Rush believes that “paying drivers by the hour and billing prospects by the hour is the best way out of this mess we’re all in.”
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“We consider in serving our prospects at the beginning,” stated Steve Rush in a information launch. “We’ve been dedicated to constructing a robust and constructive fame with our prospects and our workers for a few years. By becoming a member of KAG, we consider we’re remaining true to this dedication and are excited concerning the future potential going ahead.”
The Kenan Benefit Group operates by its six working teams consisting of KAG Power, KAG Specialty Merchandise, KAG Meals Merchandise, KAG Service provider Gasoline, KAG Canada and KAG Logistics.
