First Class

Winter 2013

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AMERICAN BULK COMMODITIES Maximum Availability W hile spending more than half a century building a one-dump operation into a family of wholly owned subsidiaries that now offers more than 600 power units to its base of mostly industrial customers, Ron Carrocce learned a valuable lesson. "Equipment availability," says Carrocce, who founded R and J Trucking, the Boardman, Ohio-based bulk materials hauling firm, in 1960. 8 l FIRST CLASS Peterbilt debut in American Bulk Commodities' fleet improves uptime, fuel economy "Our customer base was very demanding. We had just gotten our authority in the mid 1980s and in order to compete, survive and grow, we needed available equipment that could go to work when the customer needed it." The operation that sported some 30-plus trucks in the mid 1980s "took that equipment-availability philosophy and ran with it," says Mark Carrocce, Ron's son and the company vice-president. The firm acquired John Brown Trucking of Portersville, Pa., in 1995, and Southern Haulers, LLC, of Calera, Ala., in 1999, along with their equipment fleets and the continued services of Southern's Vice President of Operations George Roberts. With the companies all under the American Bulk Commodities umbrella, the operation soon offered customers the convenience of 11 bulk terminals. By 2012, a total of nearly 600 company-owned trucks and more than 1,000

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