The corporate office and an operations
terminal remain in Walnut, Calif., and the
company also has Cal ifornia-based
terminal facilities in Long Beach, Adelanto
andStockton.
Its presence stretches northward into
Portland, Ore. and Tacoma, Wash. and east
into Las Vegas. Other facilities are located
in Henderson, Nev., Buckeye, Chandler
and Safford, Ariz., Hurley, N.M. and both
Channelview and El Paso, Texas.It owns
130 tractors and 460 trailers and has 60
owner-operator vehicles that run in all 48
contiguous U.S. states, along with Canada
andMexico.
“In this era of limited drivers and assets we
continue to evaluate what we do in each
terminal location with the customer base in
that area,”Anderson said.
Additionally, Bulk’s vehicle maintenance
shop in Walnut is certified to do warranty
work on Kenworth trucks, and an in-house
tank wash rack can clean as many as 50
trailers daily. About 60 percent of the
company fleet is cleaned inWalnut.
“Industry leading shippers want safety,
ser vice andcost , and they want a
partnership so they know when they have
shipments we are there for them,” Anderson
said. “We offer and sell reliable service. In
the driver shortage and asset shortage world
we work in today, this is a plus for our
customers. We are in several states, and our
customers appreciate the fact that we can
service theirbusinesses in several different
locales. Customers like on-time deliveries
andproper billing, andwe provide both.”
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