Hribar Logistics has been delivering excellence since 1949, over sixty years ago. Today, we continue to expand and diversify to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. With a full fleet of company trucks and several contracted owner operators, Hribar had become one of the largest fleet-owned dump and pneumatic tank carriers in the area. We continue to handle bulk material, aggregate material and salt, contaminated soil, recyclables, landscaping materials, and even a host of specialty and flatbed products and services.
At Hribar Logistics, we consider every day to be an opportunity to meet and exceed the needs of our customers — our partners.
The Leo Hribar Sr. family purchased the initial property, which started out as the family homestead in the Town of Raymond. What started as the family farm slowly changed over to other activities.
In 1938, Leo Hribar purchased the farm from his father so that he could continue farming.
In 1949 Leo Hribar purchase a new tractor and dump trailer for hauling sand and gravel in SouthEastern Wisconsin. Under the newly formed transportation company, Hribar now started to haul many different commodities and in 1958, Hribar hauled the first loads of salt transported by truck in the State of Wisconsin from Milwaukee. As a family business, Leo had three sons Bill, Don, and Lee worked in the company.
In 1961, no long trailers were available to haul large loads. This limited the trucking industry to small dump trucks and semi-dump trailers, resulting in 20-ton loads.
Due to the 1963 rail strike, Hribar started hauling interstate aggregates from Wisconsin to Northern Illinois. This allowed Hribar an opportunity to be the more efficient way to ship material to Illinois.
Always efficient, innovative, and willing to improve the service offered, Leo Hribar invented the "Pup Trailer," which allowed a larger payload with two shorter dump box units. The pup and similar concepts are still in use by many carriers today.
As the company continued to grow, the family started Hribar Materials Inc. in 1967 and started to deliver aggregates to their own customers. Around the same time, Bill, Don, and Lee formed Hribar Bros. Inc., as a separate trucking company, but continued to work with Hribar Trucking, Inc. through management services.
In 1974, Hribar Materials was merged into Central Supply, which was a lubricant dealer for Kendall Motor Oil. At this time, Hribar Bros got into the diesel fuel delivery business and, in 1977, moved out from the original homestead site and worked from an outside location.
In 1979, Amston Inc. was created as an equipment leasing company, opening a new area of business for the Hribar group.
In an ever-changing business in 1982, Lee Hribar bought out his brother Don's shares of Hribar Bros. Ten years later, Lee purchased control of all the shares of Hribar Trucking, Inc. and was the only owner.
The last business change occurred when in 1993, Lee assumed control of Hribar Bros and merged Central Supply and Amston Inc. with all outstanding stock of Central Supply being replaced with Amston Inc. stock. At the time that operations were being consolidated, in 1992 plans had begun for the next generation of ownership.
In 1998, Hribar started a new venture for them and saw the company utilize pneumatic tanks in their operations. From a small start with two units running sporadically, Hribar was expanding the business model in 2002 with the acquisition of Jim Halverson, LLC. This brought in new equipment and customers since Jim Halverson worked in the Madison market area, expanding Hribar from going North and South of Milwaukee to going west toward Madison and south into Rockford.
Through other company acquisitions, Hribar took on another local pneumatic company in the Milwaukee area and a long-haul business. This now had Hribar providing all the quality transportation services necessary as a successful local, Over-the-road, and nationwide logistics provider.
Lee retired at the close of 2003 and served as an advisor and board member for several years, with three of his sons, Michael, Mark, and Steven, remaining in the business.
As the company continued to expand, a new acquisition of MCS in 2011, Hribar now had a terminal in Indianapolis, IN. With a fleet of company trucks and additional contracted owner operators, Hribar has become one of the largest fleet owned dump/pneumatic carriers in the area.
Today, Hribar continues to handle bulk materials, aggregate materials, salt, recyclables, and landscaping materials, as well as a host of specialty and flatbed trailers and services to meet customers' needs. Hribar Logistics is now the Order Board for the Hribar group and has brokerage authority to assign loads to outside carriers. Hribar considers every day an opportunity to meet and exceed the needs of our customers and deliver excellence.
Discover our commitment to logistics excellence. Call us at (262) 835-4401.
7213 U.S. 41
Caledonia, WI 53108
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