Pilot Freight Carriers Inc. 1941 Mug

Pilot Freight Carriers Inc. was founded by RY Sharpe in 1941 after he purchased Pennie Transportation, a small trucking company named that was going under. Pilot began hauling general commodities between Winston-Salem, North Carolina and New York, New York. Sharpe would continue to purchase smaller companies that had operating rights in areas he wanted to run in, and before too long, Pilot Freight Carriers was operating along the entire eastern seaboard. By the early '80s, Pilot Freight Carriers had more than 80 terminals, but before the decade was over, the once prosperous trucking company would find themselves in trouble and began a shut-down and sell off in that began in 1987 and ended in 1989.