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About Towne
Eugene Towne founded Towne Air Freight, in South Bend, Indiana in 1963 with one employee and one van. Gary "Duke" Downey purchased the company in August 1982. At that time, South Bend was the only location with 18 employees, two tractors and nine straight trucks. The core business was local pickup and delivery service in South Bend, as well as linehaul service between South Bend and Chicago's O'Hare Airport for the freight community.Between 1983 and now, Towne has opened terminals, partnered with agents and acquired other companies to grow into a coast-to-coast, air freight trucking company serving more than 50 cities and surrounding areas nationwide.
Along the way, Towne began to expand the services we offered including less-than-truckload(LTL) service in the states of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky to help manage capacity and reach our goal of becoming a full-service trucking provider.
Towne launched Rocket Expedited in 2000 to fill time-sensitive and critical shipment needs-providing even more shipping options for both air freight and commercial customers.
Today, nearly 80% of our business is in the movement and handling of air cargo for freight forwarders. We provided Airport-to-Airport, Door-to-Airport and Airport-to-Door shipping coast to coast as well as LTL in the Midwest and expedited services nationwide.
All in all, there are three wholly-owned subsidiaries under the Towne Holdings name-Towne Air Freight, Rocket Expedited and Towne Network Solutions-with a combined total of nearly 1600 employees and independent contractors. return to top