30 Year Celebration

VHI celebrates 30^th Anniversary

Chester, VA – May 14, 2007 - VHI Transport, Inc. is celebrating its 30^th anniversary in a new location in Chester, VA. The professional transportation brokerage was founded in 1977 as Virginia Hiway, Inc. under the leadership of David Gee, CTB. Today, it is operated with David (Bruce) Gee as second generation President.

For 29 years, the firm was located in Richmond, serving mainly dry van freight off the Eastern seaboard. Expansion at that site included creation of a Container Division, Dedicated Division and Flatbed Division.

The firm changed its name in 2001 as an indication of its broader scope and expanded services. The firm now has divisions for Logistics, Dedicated, Containers, Air/Expedited, Flatbed, Tanker, Refrigerated and Agents.

VHI’s Container Division has made a major impact in international freight, handling drayage and ground transport for containers arriving from any location in the world, to virtually any US port. Its Dedicated Division has secured carriers for repeat loads to and from specific locations and makes good use of backhauls. The Agents Division now has a half dozen offices throughout the country from which freight is dispatched locally.

“Our clients are particularly impressed with the management reports, analysis and negotiations we perform for them,” stated Connie Whitley, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

“We have developed a process that allows us to customize with finite details for each customer. Of course we know what the freight is, where it is along it path to delivery and when it will arrive. Beyond these basics, our proprietary process allows for every transaction we arrange to default to the shipper’s individual requirements. They become our guidebook to customer satisfaction.”

Like many key employees, Whitley has more than a decade of experience, working with and establishing relationships with VHI clients.

As the family enters its second generation of Gee family ownership, President Bruce Gee states, “You will see no change in the company’s financial strength and stability. We have prided ourselves on a perfect credit score in the past and it will continue into the future. Pristine cash flow is critical to survival of a third party transportation intermediary in today’s market.

“One of the strategies used to maintain our perfect credit score is to have the best customers. We seek out companies that are dependable and ethical; those who pay us on time. This is how we can maintain our practice of paying our carriers every 10 days and even faster. When we need carriage, considering our performance over thirty years, we capture attention and service.

“We focus on the cycle of money because it results in satisfaction for both our shipping customers and our carrier customers. That’s what we seek to accomplish and increase, as we move into our 31^st year in business.”