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What makes a company who they are? Is it the people? The Leadership? How they do what they do? Is it something that happens suddenly or something that grows over time? Is it something you aspire to be or something that you actually are?

As an owner, it feels like the Company Culture is a quiet pulse. Just as various systems in the body work together to create your pulse, the company culture serves as the pulse of the business, driven by its different internal systems. The people are the heart – they’re the strongest part. The hardest working, don’t stop, can handle the highs and lows of the system. The policies and systems are the immune system. They protect us – sometimes from ourselves, sometimes from the dangers of what we do and sometimes from the weariness that happens over time. Then there is the equipment. The muscles of this analogy – how does a trucking company not flex with the beautiful, capable and highly functional equipment in the fleet? Then there’s leadership- in this analogy what could be considered the brain. Sometimes the decisions we make are a strain to the system and sometimes they are what feeds homeostasis. We’re woven into so much of what has and does happen we’d probably be the nervous system.

Think this analogy is corny? You wouldn’t be alone. Dan and Chris J probably will too. And that’s the last part of what drives the pulse in this company – the love and admiration, the spirit. The Company, and its culture, is as human as it gets. Made up of people that have forged bonds with one another, customers and equipment. Made up of people that make mistakes, learn better and then try to do better. A place where sometimes stuff goes awesome and then other times it’s a shit show. But a place where you are in the good company of other good humans. Our culture is like a pulse, sometimes its racing with adrenaline and other times its calmly plugging along.

THE HISTORY OF PAGE TRUCKING

We couldn’t talk about who we are without talking about who brought us here. Dan and I are second generation owners and sixth generation business owners in Cayuga County. Originally our family was in farming, commodity trading and trucking.

Our father, Keith, started the trucking business (Keith Titus Corporation) by way of a roadside repair business. Originally moving agricultural products he built the business one relationship at a time. He eventually acquired Page Transportation and Page E.T.C., Inc which are our two primary transporting companies and the branding that is most commonly recognized in the market. In the late 90s when he passed away he had approximately 250 trucks and was generating about $36M in revenue annually.

Several years passed with different leadership and support while our mother tried to keep the company doors open. Her lawyers told her to close the company and sell the assets in 2003 when things had gotten pretty bleak. She ignored that advice and invested every dollar to her name to keep the company doors open.

REBIRTH

Dan joined the company in 2005 and for several years he toiled to grow sales one customer and one truck at a time. He had to be resourceful; utilize every piece of equipment, refurbish and repurpose everything the company owned with wheels and re-establish Page’s reputation as a bulk dense commodity hauler. He had to regain trust, re-establish competencies, close pending lawsuits and unsuccessful acquisitions and bring a bank back to the table. With the support of both new and long standing employees the company was back on the right track.

I came to the company in 2008. We had our first break-even year since my dad died. Dispatchers and drivers were taking advantage of every opportunity while working to provide competitive programs behind the scenes. Our company was continuing to grow and continuously adding equipment, hard working employees and operators to support the sales growth. We stepped in post bankruptcy with Aleris and captured a big opportunity, locked in contracts with residual waste customers, had our first three M&A activities and began to see explosive growth.

MODERN ERA

To date, we have worked through COVID, (one of the largest and longest freight recessions our generation will likely experience,) the implementation of ELDS (which absolutely was the most disruptive thing that could happen in the culture of trucking) and have moved into a new corporate facility in Weedsport, NY. We’ve grown our three trucking companies; Page Transportation, Page E.T.C., Inc and Page M.T.C., Inc (our Molten division). Page Material Management has opened new locations and every year it feels like the bar gets set higher for the service obligations we can meet. We’ve blazed trails in the specialty market with EDI implementation, put over 250 Owner Operators through our affiliate loan program and have launched a driving school and NY State Department of Labor Diesel Tech apprenticeship program. We’ve said goodbye to staff that retired or moved into other careers and welcomed new people into our work family. The one constant is that there is no constant – we are ever evolving and growing.

MEET DAN TITUS

Dan is the President and driving force behind the sales growth in this company. He travels regularly to customers, Carriers, Conventions, trade shows and onsite facilities. Through this travel and his extensive network throughout the supply chain he is regularly creating new opportunities, developing and maintaining existing relationships and refining current services to bring more value to all of the stakeholders.

Dan is married to Wendy, and they live in Jordan, NY. Dan has four children; Sophia, Keith, Ellis and Marcy. His oldest was born in 2001 and his youngest was born in 2009. Dan went to Ithaca College where he got his business degree. He is an avid hunter, loves to spend time with his kids and can often be found in his garage working on a truck or recreational vehicle.

MEET PIPER TITUS

I am the CFO and handle back-of-house operations. I am trained and licensed as a certified public accountant and began my tenure with Page as the Controller. I am passionate about having the best and most effective systems to support our operations team. I believe in the power of software and data and am constantly working to ensure everyone in the organization has the necessary resources, training and ultimately data to ensure we’re all pulling in the same direction towards common goals.

I live in Cato with my two daughters, Olive and Eleanor. I went to Cornell and Syracuse University and believe deeply in the power of technical schools, colleges, universities and work study programs. I have horrific wanderlust and find great joy in seeing things I’ve never seen before with my girls. Second only to live music in the warm summer months in Upstate.

OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR TEAM

Both Dan and I are blessed to have a long history in the community and we try to pay it back in multiple ways. First and foremost we support our employees, operators and their families. Ensuring they have our support in time of need helps ease those stressful times and we believe is critical to a successful community here at Page. We also work to support youth athletics and cancer research. Youth athletics cross ages and regions. We donate to various athletic organizations, non-profit youth organizations and other kid activities. It’s hard work keeping these programs going and we believe in doing our part. Cancer research has been on our radar for the last five years. Everyone in our organization has been directly affected and this aligns with our business model; operating and responding to today’s opportunities and challenges while also planning for the future.

Truly Dan and I are blessed to have the opportunity to own Page Trucking and do the work we do everyday.

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WHY US?

Page Trucking isn’t just a trucking company, we are a family; and just like any family we care about our employees, our customers, our owner operators and our community. Our business runs on well connected, happy people.

environmentally friendly

Page Trucking takes every measure possible to care for our earth. We power many of our onsite corporate services by solar power; and what we don’t use we give back to the grid.

community aid

We may be a national company, but we sure do love our local community. That’s why we maintain ourselves as responsible members of the community by aiding local charities and youth organizations all year round!

we put people first

Page Trucking has been a company fueled by our employees and owner operators since 1977. It is very important to us that they are happy when they come to work and their livelihoods are protected.