Named for a small town in south central Virginia, Abilene Motor Express was founded by its current owners Keith and Kolen Jones more 20 years ago in 1986. Since 1989, the company has been offering comprehensive freight brokerage services, and today, Abilene's fleet of more than 170 late-model tractors and over 600 air-ride, 53-foot trailers provides reliable truckload and volume LTL services throughout the lower 48 states.

Abilene Motor Express has expanded the shop at its Richmond, Virginia headquarters. The shop now includes a total of 14 work bays, with expanded space for parts, a special wash bay for tractors and trailers, and a complete body shop. This expansion supports our company's already diligent repair and replacement program to keep Abilene tractors and trailers in top shape and on the road.

Customers see fewer breakdowns with Abilene's late model equipment. We trade every three years — the average age of our equipment is 18 months.

On January 15, 2006, Abilene Motor Express implemented TMWSuite, a software system designed to manage the end-to-end transportation processes – from order entry and dispatch through logistics management and settlement. This highly configurable enterprise transportation management solution provides Abilene Motor Express and Abilene Logistics an integrated suite of functions and services to operate efficiently and profitably. Highly customizable reporting and real time load tracking are two of the many powerful customer friendly features of TMWSuite.