FreightWaves Haul of Fame: Central Freight Lines has served its customers for 95+ years

A Central Freight Lines tractor pulls its twin-trailer load. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Central Freight Lines, Inc., a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier, began in Waco, Texas, in 1925 with a single Model T truck. Its founder, W.W. “Woody” Callan, Sr., founded the company as Central Forwarding and Warehouse Company and transported goods to Dallas and Waco merchants with that single vehicle. Callan had gained his trucking and transportation knowledge while working as an assistant to a warehouse foreman at the Weathered Transfer and Storage company prior to building his own business....

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