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Transportation Biz Brings 30-Year Expertise to Niche Service By Ruksana Hussain CEG CORRESPONDENT
When Brad Grafe, owner and president of Valley Transportation Service Inc., established the company in 1989, he observed a vital niche: providing transportation services to manufacturers and shippers countrywide. From his Grand Meadow, Minn.-based offices, his network of company-owned, leasepurchase and owner-operator trucks provides a much-needed solution to clients across the United States, moving primarily construction and agricultural equipment. From only two trucks, two drivers and two office staff, Valley has grown tremendously in the past three decades, with 60 staff at the main office location, 200 drivers and four outside sales crew and more than 200 trucks. Previously a fertilizer and chemical sales representative for an agricultural equipment cooperative, Grafe managed a trucking company for four years where he learned the business before venturing out on his own in 1989. The scope of services has remained the same at Valley. “The size of the equipment that we haul and the amount of stuff we can put on a trailer has drastically been reduced just because of the size of the equipment,” said Grafe. “We do a
From only two trucks, two drivers and two office staff, Valley has grown tremendously in the past three decades, with 60 staff at the main office location, 200 drivers, four outside sales crew and more than 200 trucks.
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Valley Transportation Service Inc. provides a much-needed solution to clients across the United States, moving primarily construction and agricultural equipment.
Valley works with a team of owner operators and company drivers to support its expanding reach.
