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Fleet Insider Profile Growing attraction Fremont Contract Carriers has blossomed from a 35-truck fleet into a nationwide, award-winning food hauler by JAMES JAILLET F remont Contract Carriers Chief Operating Officer Tim McCormick isn't sure exactly how the Fremont, Neb.-based company started in 1966, but in his time with the carrier — 18 years under current owner Mike Harry — he knows its more recent history quite well, and it's a history defined by major expansion. In the early 1990s, before Harry took over, McCormick says the fleet ran 35 tractors, all company- owned. And though they've added company-owned units since, most of the subsequent growth – they currently run about 300 tractors — has come by way of an indepen- dent contractor program set up directly after Harry took the reins. Fremont also established a brokerage division dubbed FCC Transportation Services, which pulls in about $5 million to $6 million in revenue a year by itself. In recent years, the company's buttered its bread carrying dry van food grade products with its roughly 265 tractors and 800 trail- ers dedicated to that segment of its www.TruckersEdge.net 800.280.2467 What's quantity without quality? Get the biggest and the best. The largest Internet load board with the most exclusive listings Best value: get higher paying loads Fast-paying brokers with highest credit rating in industry Easy to use © 2011 TransCore. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 52 | TRUCKERS NEWS | APRIL 2012 "Best paying freight. best service. Best paying load board, And I get paid fast." Standard Package $34.95 per month Unlimited load searching & truck posting plus: • Days-to-pay • MC number, bond, and credit profile lookup • Mileage and routing by TruckMiles® • Alarm Match notification