C.R. England history

By then, his father had upgraded to a new 1924 flatbed Graham Brothers truck and became one of the first contract haulers for Weber Central Dairy — later known as Cream o’Weber Dairy — in Ogden, Utah.

The beginning of the 1930’s marked the Great Depression.

The business was prosperous enough that after his sons were discharged from the service England was able to buy his first diesel truck, a used 1940 Kenworth.

In 1977 a third generation became involved in the business when Daniel England, the current chief executive officer, joined the company, just as the trucking industry was about to enter a period of radical change caused by deregulation initiated by the Reagan Administration.

90 of the largest 100 carriers in 1980 are now out of business – mostly because of deregulation.

In addition, England Logistics offers transportation management services and England Transportation Consulting analyzes customers' shipping programs and helps to lower overall freight costs on a "pay for performance" basis. As a result of these and other changes, revenues have grown from $30 million in 1985 to about $500 million 20 years later.

Coupled with a computer database of customers, the new system, rolled out in October 1991, allowed booking agents to identify the source of the abandoned call and to promptly call back the shipper to take the order.

1994: England Logistics is launched.

Whisenant, Ben, "Global Positioning Systems, Internet Tracking of Freight Loads Just Some of the High-Tech in Trucking," Enterprise, March 25, 2002.

Although his father’s business was trucking, his real love was “buying and selling produce, and knowing how to make a profitable deal,” Gene wrote in his 2017 autobiography “A Life Blessed.”