On July 5, 2021, the largest truckload carrier in the US, Phoenix, Arizona-based Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, acquired AAA Cooper for US$1.35 billion. Reid Dove, Mack Dove's son, became president of the company in 2001. Later that year, ACT opened a terminal in Minneapolis. In 1994, ACT opened its first terminal outside of the Southeast in Chicago. By 1989, annual sales had increased to $136 million.ĭuring the 1990s, ACT's terminal network in the South continued to expand. These facilities were used for new terminal openings and relocating certain existing terminals for expanded and improved service. In early 1990, ACT purchased nine terminals from the former Bowman Transportation Company. As a result, the Company entered the decade of the 70's with $3 million in annual sales and ended the decade with $43 million in sales.ĪCT continued its expansion during the 1980s by purchasing Haynes Motor Lines in 1986 which added nine new terminals In January 1989, Earl sold his 50% ownership in the company to Mack. Meanwhile, ACT completed its opening of Florida and in 1978 bought expansive authority to operate in Georgia, North and South Carolina. Deregulation of the industry began in July 1980 with the passage of Motor Carrier Act of 1980. In 1976, the company obtained approval from the (ICC) to serve all of Florida. In 1973 Mack and Earl Dove recognized the beginning industry deregulation and began to position the company for that occurrence through improved cost measurement systems and management training. The resulting company was renamed AAA Cooper Transportation in 1973. Thus, in 1969, AAA Motor Lines Inc., bought Cooper Transfer Company Inc. The Company growth potential would be limited to purchasing other operating routes, or companies who possessed routes that were not being operated to their greatest potential.

The decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and the early 1970s were a time of regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), a former independent agency of the U.S. His sons, Earl and Mack Dove, received their degrees in Transportation from the University of Tennessee and joined the family firm between 19. White Truck Lines and changed the name to AAA Motor Lines. In 1955, he purchased the remaining ownership interest in P.C. 'Red' Dove began his association with the transportation industry by working with his father hauling logs from the Alabama woods to sawmills.

In July 2021, ACT was acquired by the largest truckload carrier in the US, Knight-Swift, for US$1.35 billion with plans for the company to continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. It was owned and operated by the Dove family for most of its history. Dove after he purchased an interest in P.C. The company was founded in 1955 by John H. The company also provides dedicated, port, and international freight transportation. Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings (since 2021)ĪAA Cooper Transportation (ACT) is an American, non-union less than truckload (LTL) freight carrier based in Dothan, Alabama.

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