Truckmen Corporation

Jeremy Jenks, Business Development
jenksj@truckmen.com

All 50 states and Canada.

Truckmen has developed as an important link in the supply chain for many Cleveland area fortune 500 companies. With our city fleet, we are able to deliver within a few hours notice to prevent companies from having to keep large inventories on site. Our customers will never have to worry of a line shutdown or paying expedited rates on freight. Vendors release only necessary products to their customers on a daily basis. Our trucks make multiple daily deliveries, and our over the road trucks can take product anywhere in the country. We provide detailed information of receipts, shipments and inventories. Truckmen operates as a seamless lane between vendor and customer and provides added value to any business relationship. Our warehouse also has an approved tax abatement program up to 60%.

With twenty years of experience in the trucking industry, the founder of Truckmen Corporation, Jeff Jenks, started the company in 1991. Truckmen began as a freight agent with about 33,000 square feet of warehousing space on Township Road in Geneva, Ohio. Shortly after its inception, Truckmen bought three cab-over trucks, which did mostly local trips, but eventually did some over the road work also. Those three trucks ended up as the flagships for Truckmen when the signature sunglasses and ears were painted on them! Right around that time, a truck service shop was formed to fix and maintain those trucks and took over a bay of the existing warehouse building. In 1993, the office for Truckmen was moved from Township Road across Route 534 to Harpersfield Road. A new shop was built on that same property to accommodate the growing fleet and outside customers began to bring in work as well. The warehouse on Township Road was expanded to add an extra 12,000 square feet. Right around this time Truckmen Corp started its "Drive-to-Own" program allowing new drivers to lease a truck and pay for it as they hauled freight for the company. When the truck was paid off, that driver owned it and could reap the benefits of being an owner/operator.

Around 1995, Truckmen invested in ten new flatbed trailers with red "curtains" that would protect freight without tarps and could be side, end or top loaded. In 2000, another warehouse was added to the existing buildings on Harpersfield Road. Truckmen’s fleet had grown to about 35 over the road trucks and five city trucks that were assigned to the task of local runs, such as warehouse deliveries. In 2004, Truckmen purchased property on Bishop Road (butting up to I-90), creating a triangle with the other two properties now called the Truckmen "campus". The building on Bishop Road became the new home of the Truckmen offices. The Truck Services division became the occupant of the old office space on Harpersfield Road. They are now responsible for Truckmen’s five "city" trucks, over forty line-haul trucks, nearly 15 curtain-side trailers and a set of owned, leased or rented van trailers approaching one hundred in number- all in addition to servicing outside clients. The leasing division has watched six drivers complete its four to six year Drive-To-Own programs and has nearly thirty more working on that goal. The warehouse division now operates 200,000 square feet and has expanded its value added services to include freight forwarding, bar code labeling, inventory tracking, just in time delivery, racking, cross-docking, vendor managed inventory and more. With its resources, experience, infrastructure and flexibility, Truckmen Corporation continues to prove itself as a solution provider and promise-keeper for its customers.