{"id":4615,"date":"2012-06-04T02:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2012-06-04T02:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T02:14:30","slug":"contrans-acquires-peter-hodge-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/contrans-acquires-peter-hodge-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrans acquires Peter Hodge Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WOODSTOCK, Ont. &#8212; Contrans has announced it has acquired bulk <a href=\"http:\/\/rightnowloads.com\/\">trucking <\/a>firm Peter Hodge Transport.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to generate annual revenues of about $20 million. Peter Hodge runs 92 highway tractors and 140 trailers and provides bulk hauling using open-top dump <a href=\"http:\/\/cdlapps.com\/\">trailers <\/a>and liquid tankers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe managers, staff and drivers at Peter Hodge <a href=\"http:\/\/freightbrokerscourse.com\/\">Transport <\/a>have spent over 40 years building a great company,\u201d said Contrans\u2019 chairman and CEO Stan Dunford. \u201cThis is a unique opportunity for us to strengthen our dump and tank hauling presence in Ontario by adding such a well-respected, service-oriented business to our group. For many years, we have operated a similar business in the Great Lakes region, but the shipping lanes and <a href=\"http:\/\/cdlapps.com\/\">trailer <\/a>types have differed from those typically handled by Peter Hodge Transport. This is a complementary addition to our service offerings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rightnowloads.com\/\">http:\/\/rightnowloads.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOODSTOCK, Ont. &#8212; Contrans has announced it has acquired bulk trucking firm Peter Hodge Transport. The deal is expected to generate annual revenues of about $20 million. Peter Hodge runs 92 highway tractors and 140 trailers and provides bulk hauling using open-top dump trailers and liquid tankers. \u201cThe managers, staff and drivers at Peter Hodge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}