Axelerate Brings Ground Transportation Services to North America

DETROIT, May 15  /PRNewswire/ -- Axelerate, an independent Landstar Agency, announced today the opening of its office in Detroit, Michigan.  Axelerate offers customized transportation and logistics services to meet your transportation needs.

As a Landstar Agency, Axelerate has access to all of Landstar's transportation capacity including more than 8,000 tractors and 12,000 pieces of trailing equipment. Through the Landstar system, Axelerate offers domestic and international services including ground transportation, air and ocean services, logistics and intermodal, expedited service and warehousing.

Axelerate agent, Mike O'Donnell has 29 years of industry experience.  Most recently, O'Donnell was Vice President with Penske Logistics, where he served in 2007 and from 1997 to 2001. He managed the implementation of Ford's North American inbound logistics network and managed the General Motors account.

Prior to this, he was Vice President at Vector Supply Chain Management from 2001 to 2006. In this capacity, he had operational responsibility for a $4.2 billion global logistics budget. Previously, he was Director at TNT Logistics, a start-up venture selling and managing logistic solutions for Chrysler, Auto Alliance, and Church and Dwight.

From 1988 to 1991, he was General Manager at Ryder Logistics where he implemented an initial North American inbound logistics network for Toyota Motor Manufacturing.

O'Donnell earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from John Carroll University in Cleveland.

About Landstar:

Landstar System, Inc. delivers safe, specialized transportation and logistics services to a broad range of customers worldwide. The Company identifies and fulfills shippers' needs through the coordination of individual businesses comprised of independent sales agents and third-party transportation and logistics capacity providers. Through its operating subsidiaries, Landstar delivers excellence in complete transportation logistics services and solutions. All Landstar operating companies are certified to ISO 9001:2000 quality management system standards. Landstar System, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Its common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market(R) under the symbol LSTR. 

DATASOURCE: Axelerate



CONTACT:  Mike O'Donnell, An independent Landstar agent of Axelerate,

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Web site:  http://www.axelerate.us.com/

http://www.landstar.com/ 

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