First Call Trucking & Courier

12/25/2021

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05/28/2021

Solar power is having its day! The industry has grown at an average annual rate of 39% over the last decade according to a report from think tank Carbon Tracker. At this rate, it is almost doubling its capacity every two years. This likely comes as no surprise to residents living in the northeast who have seen the proliferation of solar panel farms take hold amid the growing number of homes whose roofs are also resplendently adorned with photovoltaic cells.

First Call Trucking, in partnership with Landstar Transportation, is thrilled to offer transportation services to support this growing field. Through our work with Sunbug Solar and Green Street Power Partners, we have already helped to ship thousands of panels throughout Massachusetts and New York. As a business that has always had an emphasis on and interest in sustainability, the opportunity to assist these companies in an industry that is more important now than ever makes us feel that we are doing purposeful work - work that will help sustain the country as we all navigate an ever-changing environmental landscape.
To learn more about Sunbug Solar and/or Green Street Power Partners and the amazing work that they do, please see here:

https://sunbugsolar.com/
https://www.gspp.com/

To learn how First Call Trucking can support you with your transportation needs, give us a call: 617-799-9740; or email us: [email protected].

SunBug, a local Massachusetts provider of solar energy solutions for Homes, Commercial & Non-Profits. Solar system design, installation processing incentives and rebates, monitoring.

04/19/2021

Today First Call’s division picked up this elite bottle of Utopia at in . We will be packaging it and sending it to South Carolina via UPS Ground later today 👏👌

03/22/2021

Drive down to outside Philadelphia and back to Essex in a day with 270 blueberry plants?! No problem!

http://firstcalltrucking.com/blog/first-call-trucking-another-cog-in-franks-hyper-local-approach-to-food/

10/29/2020

The DeFazio family - my family - has been entrenched in the transportation and logistics industry since before there were trucks. Throughout my childhood, my paternal grandfather - my "Papa" - would regal me with stories about his time hauling freight - mostly food stuffs - by horse drawn carriage in and around Boston's Faneuil Hall Market Place and the New Market area of Roxbury. With the advent of the automobile, my Papa transitioned from horse drawn carriage to a motorized truck. His company, DeFazio's Express, became widely known in the North End and beyond for his reliability, efficiency, and honesty. As my dad tells me, my Papa was always up before dawn, home after dusk, and never missed a day of work until he retired in 1977.

After stints in the service and Corporate America, my dad, too, entered logistical services, purchasing a same-day/rush, trucking company from a friend in 1992. I joined my dad full time at First Call Trucking in 2006 thinking that at some point I would move on. But there's something about this business - the way it can be both so maddening and fulfilling, the interesting characters you meet along the way, the intimate look into other people's professional lives you are able to glean when transporting their products from Point A to B - that has kept me keen all these years later. Now, some fourteen years since I first stepped foot into what was then my dad's warehouse, I'm proud to announce my induction into an entirely new facet of the trucking industry - one whose opportunities are boundless because I now have the strength and bandwidth of the country's largest non-asset carrier in my tool belt. As a new Agent for Landstar, I have a fleet of over 100,000 trucks to draw from for quite literally any modality of transportation that one could possibly need, from flatbeds and dry vans to refrigerated vehicles and step-decks.

If you need freight moved, please do think of me. If you know of anyone in need of a company with whom to partner for their logistics needs, please, pass my name along. If trucking is in the DeFazio blood, than joining Landstar was a logical next step. I don't have wings, but I do have wheels, and I will use them to fly.

10/15/2020

As a newly inducted agent for Landstar (www.landstar.com/), I'm thrilled to be able to expand my service offerings from dock-high box trucks in and around Greater Boston, to what is now a fleet of thousands - ranging from trailers, flatbeds, reefers, and more - and not just across the Northeast, or the U.S., but in all of North America. The capacity that Landstar offers is endless.

If you're a business owner looking for freight solutions, or simply to save money, please give me a shout: [email protected].

05/04/2020

Super thankful to , who, might I add, I had never done business with before, for securing a loan for 💪. I have been super impressed with the efficiency and service of this 👍. Kudos to them. 🙏

04/03/2020

http://firstcalltrucking.com/blog/were-here-to-help/

With the current Covid-19 pandemic worsening by the day, the need for hospitals to quickly and efficiently receive loads of medical equipment such as intubation devices and personal protective…

02/01/2020

http://firstcalltrucking.com/blog/5-benefits-of-hot-shot-trucking-for-drivers-owner-operators-looking-to-get-into-the-same-day-rush-trucking-industry/

Think of “hot shot” freight as flying “first class” whereas LTL loads are flying commercial.

12/11/2019

http://firstcalltrucking.com/blog/how-bostons-local-couriers-helped-in-the-fight-against-ebola/

In the early evening hours of August 26th, 2019 another local courier company called me in a panic: the hazmat driver they had secured for an extremely hot shipment of dangerous goods was no longer…

12/02/2019

http://firstcalltrucking.com/blog/first-call-trucking-and-lulu-lemon/

First Call Trucking is proud to be working with Traffix, a logistical services company based in Canada, to service Lulu Lemon’s delivery needs in the Boston market.  When Lulu Lemon decided to…

11/14/2019

http://firstcalltrucking.com/blog/next-flight-out-nfo/

When your freight needs to travel over a large distance fast, the quickest way – i.e. the method with the shortest transit time – is by air. When your freight is extremely “hot” (that’s logis…