The same could be said of the company with humble beginnings. Estes sat on a crate as he cruised the rural roads, but that “didn’t slow him down,” according to the company’s new historical pamphlet. This custom truck has a windshield and something else the first vehicle lacked - a driver’s seat. They stood in front of a fully-restored 1931 truck with running boards and wooden truck bed. “My grandfather didn’t have a windshield on that first truck,” Rob Estes said, posing with family recently outside Estes’ headquarters at 3901 W. Estes was available to move from farming into trucking, hauling livestock and farm supplies across southern and Southwest Virginia. How in 1931 he seized a business opportunity in his hometown of Chase City, offering to haul cattle for nearby ranchers. Rob Estes, president and chief executive officer of Richmond-based Estes Express, and other relatives who run the family-owned company know enough about their grandfather’s story to make it the cornerstone of a 75th anniversary celebration: This hasn’t stopped Estes’ heirs at the trucking company he began from throwing one heck of a birthday party. “Nobody alive remembers,” said Rob Estes, grandson of the founder of Estes Express Lines. Estes turned the crank on his used Chevrolet truck in the small town of Chase City in Southside Virginia.
By Chip Jones, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.Īpr.
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