Renton, Wash.-based Radiant Logistics announced Tuesday its U.S. brokerage platform, Radiant Road and Rail, Inc., has opened a new location in Overland Park, Kansas.
The new location will add to the company’s robust bi-modal brokerage operation to provide truckload and less-than truck load trucking, with temperature-controlled and dry modal service, asset and brokered drayage services, as well as transloading and other value-added services.
“With the abrupt closure of Yellow, we were able to move quickly to stand up an operation in Overland Park, while attracting quite a few very passionate and talented people looking to minimize service disruption for their customers,” Ryan Stroup, the group’s field sales leader said. “Radiant offered a robust, technology-enabled operating platform and a solid financial footing from which we can continue to service our customers. It was truly a team effort and with the ‘hands-on’ approach of CEO Bohn Crain, the help of Chris Brach and the extraordinary efforts from folks working behind the scenes in Chicago and Seattle, we rallied to go from that first phone call to a full-fledged office with freight on board in about 2 weeks’ time.”
Customer facing and carrier facing teams in Overland Park will be led by Steve McCleary, the company said. McCleary and Stroup were both part of the leadership team at Yellow Logistics and were part of building Yellow’s truck brokerage operation, the company said.
“We are truly excited to welcome such a great team to our organization,” said Founder and CEO, Bohn Crain. “Over the years we have looked at various acquisition candidates in the brokerage space to help build out our bi-modal brokerage capabilities at Radiant Road and Rail but just never found the right fit. I believe our patience and discipline is going to be rewarded with the opening of operations in Overland Park. Historically this team could only sell truckload brokerage due to the business rules in place at Yellow. Now as part of Radiant, not only will they begin to sell LTL services, but they can now also offer the full suite of domestic, international and cross border services available from the broader Radiant platform.”