Road Scholar Transport was established in 1988 by Jim Barrett and his wife Debra. Jim leased a used tractor trailer and served as the sole driver for the company while Debra acted as dispatcher. Jim had experience in the trucking industry since he first gained this interest at the age of 16 when he began washing trucks after school. He worked his way through college and obtained a position in sales at the same company for which he worked for since the age of 16. When he left this company to start his own in 1988 he was vice president of sales. Today, 20 years after Road Scholar hauled its first piece freight, Jim and Debra employ approximately 95 drivers out of 5 different terminals, own 95 tractors, 350 trailers and additionally employ 10 owner operators. Revenue in 1988 only amounted to a few thousand dollars. In 2007, revenues were $18,000,000.

 

Our company is well-versed in cargo security. Owner Jim Barrett has been asked (and accepted) to do several radio interviews and presentations on cargo security. Some of these include the radio show “Tough Talk” with Joe Peters, which you can hear at www.roadscholar.com/webinars/toughtalk2.html and presentations with Walt Beadling, President of the Cargo Security Alliance, who was recently featured on Fox News as an expert in the cargo security scare.

 

We provide top of the line services and security features to get your freight where it needs to be safely and securely...on time, every time. Some of our security features include:

 

-Internal Electronic Lock

-Electronic door monitoring

-Reefer tracking

-Power unit tracking

-Qualcomm Distress/Panic Messaging

-Roof decals for aerial tracking

-Navalock

-Facility Security

-Policies, Protocols, and Compliance

-10 year criminal background check on all drivers and drug test every new hire

-Nextel Direct Connect

-SkyBitz Monitoring and Tracking

 

Other services include:

-Expedited shipping (24 hour service and 48 hour West Coast Service)

-48 and 53 ft. trailer availability

-Van, reefer, freezer, and heater service

-Hazmat certified

-Air ride on all trailers

-Reefer Trak (We can provide you with the temperature inside the trailer at any given time, even after delivery)

-The ability to request a quote online and receive a response within 10 minutes

-Schedule a pickup online

-Live Chat with a Transportation Expert online

-Real Time Satellite Tracking of Your Freight Online (Including an image of where the truck is given that precise time)

-Online document retrieval

-Verify Driver ID badges via Regiscope Online

-Special Rates

-And many more

 

You can view a pdf explaining all of our features/services at www.roadscholar.com/cms/uploads/files/rs-security.pdf.

 

Road Scholar Transport has vowed to travel 10 million miles in order to help spread awareness of the many diseases and conditions battling the lives of millions today. Through the use of Road Scholar's rolling billboards, and your business, we can help save the lives of innocent people and move one step closer to a cure.

 

Road Scholar Transport is currently spreading awareness for the following organizations:

 

-Alex's Lemonade

 

-Autism Speaks

 

-American Breast Cancer Foundation

 

-Children's Tumor Foundation

 

-Prostate Cancer Awareness

 

-International Rett Syndrome Foundation

 

-St. Joseph's Center

 

-American Foundation for the Blind

 

-Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

 

-Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PANCAN)

 

-The Flight 93 National Memorial

 

-The American Red Cross

 

-Clayton's Hope (benefiting epilepsy)

 

-Children's Craniofacial Foundation

 

-Make a Wish Foundation

 

-Children's Cancer Recovery Foundation

 

-Northeast Regional Cancer Institute (Rock on Judi H)

 

-Stop Bullying

 

-Parkinson's Disease

 

-Marley's Mission

 

-9/11 Rolling Memorial

 

-Miracle for Ava...a Cure for Brain Tumors

 

-Lyla's Hope-Spina Bfida

 

-Lupas

 

Check out our awareness campaign at www.roadscholarawareness.org/.