Swift Transportation is a Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

 based publicly held American

United States

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 truckload motor shipping carrier, the largest in the United States with over 16,000 trucks.
Carl Moyes was a truck driver

Truck driver

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 hauling produce for C. R. England Trucking

C. R. England Trucking

C.R. England, Inc. is a West Valley City, Utah based refrigerated trucking and transportation company, one of the largest in the United States. The company is private, family-owned, and has expanded more than tenfold over the last 20 years. C.R. England offers a range of global transportation...

 in the 1940s out of northern Utah

Utah

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. In the late 1950s Betty and Carl Moyes started a small trucking company in Plain City, Utah

Plain City, Utah

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, B & C Truck Leasing, and after their son, Jerry, graduated from Weber State University

Weber State University

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 in 1966, they moved the small company to Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

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