Trucking firm moves service center to Arcola
DAYTON, OHIO – The trucking firm Dayton Freight relocated its Danville Service Center to Arcola this week, according to company officials.
Dayton Freight Lines Inc., founded in 1981, is a privately owned transportation company headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, that has 40 service centers in 11 Midwest states. The company has had a center in the Danville area for many years, most recently on Ross Lane in Tilton, according to Vicki Haugen, president of Vermilion Advantage, Vermilion County's economic development office.
The service center is now operating out of a 32-door facility at 945 Bob King Drive in Arcola that will foster better and faster service to its Illinois customers, according to company officials.
About 26 full-time and six part-time employees have been working out of the Danville Service Center, which has operated in different locations in Danville and Tilton through the years, according to Haugen. Previously, she said, the center was in leased space along Fairchild Street east of Danville High School.
The facility on Ross Lane is owned by an out-of-town investor, Haugen said, and prior to Dayton Freight, housed PIE Trucking. Derek Kirby, a regional manager for Dayton Freight, said the company had been leasing the facility in Tilton and got the opportunity to purchase a building, with a size more suited to its operations, in Arcola.
"It put us more centrally located to the areas we serve," said Kirby, adding that the Tilton facility was much larger than the company needed.
Kirby said all the service center employees, except for some part-time personnel, shifted with the center.
"We're pretty happy about that," Kirby said.
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