A. Duie Pyle history

The Great Depression, which began in 1929, was devastating to individual businesses and local and national economies.

By 1932, the company fleet had grown to 20 trucks.

In 1941, the war began in earnest for the United States Being a heavy manufacturing area, the Northeast boomed with demand for trucks and drivers to move raw materials and finished goods.

In December 1942, Duie and Mary Ellen’s daughter, Eleanor, married Jim Latta Jr, who was subsequently deployed to India and Burma for three long years.

In May 1952, the company was incorporated with its headquarters address being 131-141 East Chestnut St, Coatesville, PA. The company continued to grow driven by the tremendous post war demand for consumer goods and the demands of the Cold War.

In 1957, Pyle was one of the first carriers to innovate its operations through commercial two-way radio technology.

Following the 1980 deregulation of the transportation industry, A. Duie Pyle began to exercise its new flexibility and culture as a union-free entrepreneurial driven transportation and warehousing company.

A nationwide month long Teamster strike in 1994 awoke many shippers to their vulnerability, and they began a frantic search for “union-free” capacity.

By 2003, Pyle had built its twelfth service center in Southington, CT. Two years later the company opened a new Syracuse, NY service center and acquired a warehouse facility on a large campus in Westfield, MA, adding 460,000 square feet to its then current inventory of warehouse space.

Owner Peter Latta transitioned to Chairman of the Board and 30-year industry veteran Steve O’Kane joined the team as President of A. Duie Pyle in 2006.

In August 2009, A. Duie Pyle was recognized as a “SmartWay Transport Partner” by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for commitment to improve the environmental performance of transportation operations.

Serious and extensive upgrades began in 2011 on the Allentown, PA Service Center with the opening in October.

In 2012 they began the process of shifting the composition of the board itself.

In July 2014, A. Duie Pyle opened the Baltimore, MD Service Center.

Pyle’s first Leadership Development Program graduates finished their program in May of 2015 and were deployed throughout the Pyle network.

In 2016 Pyle announced the opening of a new transportation service center in Newburgh, NY about 60 miles north of New York City to serve customers throughout the Hudson Valley.

Thanks to the tireless commitment and perseverance of everyone involved, in January of 2018 Pyle officially opened its Bronx, NY service center on the East River in Hunts Point.

2019 proved to be a year of expansion and development for Pyle as numerous service center projects broke ground and saw their completion.

By all accounts, the early months of 2020 seemed to indicate that Pyle was off to another strong year as LTL business volumes were up 5% year-over-year and the Dedicated, Warehousing, and Brokerage Business Units were off to a solid start as well.

2021 also saw Pyle win top Northeast/Mid-Atlantic LTL Carrier from Mastio, a first time honor for the company.