Pitt Ohio Express Category: Trucking Company Official Site: PittOhio.com Wikipedia: Pitt Ohio Express Address: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Description: A trucking company founded in 1979. Page Sections: History · Article Index

History

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Pitt Ohio Express page on 13 February 2025, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Pitt Ohio Express, LLC, stylized PITT OHIO, is a privately owned transportation and supply chain management company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that serves the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern US. Pitt Ohio ranked 48th on Transport Topics Top 100 For-Hire list and 14th on its Top Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Carriers list of US and Canadian freight carriers by revenue for 2021.

Pitt Ohio Express was founded in Pittsburgh in 1979 by brothers Charles L. "Chuck" Hammel III, Robert F. "Bob" Hammel, and Kenneth W. "Ken" Hammel. The brothers came from a family with a long history in freight transportation. Their grandfather, Charles Hammel, Sr., had founded Hammel's Express in Pittsburgh in 1919 transporting steel for local producer J&L Steel, his only customer, with a horse and buggy. His son, Charles L. Hammel, Jr., took over leadership of Hammel's Express in 1960, incorporated it, and owned the company until his death in 2001.

When Charles Jr.'s sons founded Pitt Ohio, they had three trucks and operated out of a small Pittsburgh terminal. The new company focused on next-day interstate express LTL freight shipments between Pittsburgh and Ohio. It leased its first warehouse in East Liverpool, Ohio in 1979 and by 1983, had opened terminals in Cleveland, Baltimore, Norristown, Pennsylvania, and Charleston, West Virginia.

By 1994, the company had grown to 525 trailers, 450 tractors, and 1,000 employees in 10 terminals. As it expanded, its revenue grew from $6.9 million in 1984 to $138 million in 1997. This meant it as the 29th largest LTL carrier and 84th largest trucking company overall nationwide by revenue despite its tight regional focus. By 1998, Pitt Ohio was handling 6,500 shipments daily from 12 terminals and had 800 drivers operating 928 trailers and 742 power units, 40% straight trucks and the remainder semi tractors, serving 7 Mid-Atlantic states. The company had no unionized employees.

Article Index

Date	Article	Details
9 May 2024	Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption; Pitt Ohio Express, LLC FMCSA announces its denial of the application from Pitt Ohio Express to exempt its drivers from one of the requirements in the Agency's Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot program.	Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless Topic: Pitt Ohio Express