FSI - Fleet Services Inc.

07/03/2026

We are looking for an Industrial Courier with the ability to pull a gooseneck trailer, strap down a load, and be available for occasional overnight travel. The candidate must have a clean driving record, be able to pass a DOT physical, and have safety in mind at all times. Wages commensurate with experience. This is a part-time, on-call position. Company trucks and trailers, 1 Ton and under. Interested parties should email your resume to:
[email protected] and include the following information: Name, address, drivers license number, work record, experience, and 3 references. For information about our company, see our website at www.fsi-couriers.net. Thank you.

FSI - Fleet Services Incorporated. Your 24-hour courier service.

07/03/2026

As we celebrate AMERICA for 250 years.....we celebrate FSI for 25 years!

06/22/2026

In September of the year 2000, Champion International announced they were bought by International Paper. I had worked at the mill since 1980 and was now a Maintenance Planner/Area Manager. We were all devastated by this news. Within a couple of months, IP offered the first package to salaried employees, cutting down the workforce. We had until November 30th to turn in our response, take the package or stay. However, if you were to stay, there was no guarantee you would still have your job. The restructure plans were not announced, so if you stayed and then your job was eliminated, you lost out on the package. It was a hard decision, but I decided to take the early retirement package and open a courier service. It was a longshot, but I felt it was a necessary service our area didn't currently have available to manufacturers and suppliers, and the opportunity was there. My last day at the mill was May 31st, 2001 and 30 days later, on July 1, 2001, FSI - Fleet Services Inc. was born. We started with the two of us, my husband Jim and I, and a small Nissan pickup and a Jeep Cherokee. We carried small parts, the largest about 300 lbs. We grew in moderation, expanded into medical deliveries as well, and still have some of the same customers we started with. They are like family because we have been partners for so many years. We wanted to remain a small business throughout the years, because we wanted to keep our service personalized for our customers. We are a unique service, and hope to remain that way. We have more trucks, trailers and drivers than we started with, but the care we give our customers remains the same. We offer a unique personalized service for your individual business, and we are told we do it well. So, this JULY 1st, 2026 we celebrate 25 years in business! There were ups and downs over the years, every business has them, but we have rolled with them. Our roles have changed and I am semi-retired, Jim passed away 7 years ago, and Jamey has managed our Field Operations for many years now. We have had some excellent couriers working with us over the years, highly skilled individuals with many years of experience in the industrial world. We are a local, family business, with a success story and happy to serve the businesses in our community and beyond.

09/24/2025

FSI is a company that practices integrity every single day. Hire us to transport your product and it will be handled with the utmost care. There are not many professional industrial carriers out there with the unique service we offer. Our couriers are professional, efficient and on-time with their deliveries. We strive to not only MEET your expectations, we strive to EXCEED them.

04/29/2025

I can't believe almost 24 years have gone by since we opened FSI - Fleet Services Inc on July 1, 2001. We have worn out at least 15 trucks over the years, most of them reaching the maximum mileage we feel comfortable with putting on the road, in about 3 years. The most mileage we ever put on a truck rolled over 500,000 miles on a 3/4 Ton Ford F250 Diesel with a 7.3 Powerstroke engine. Best diesel engine ever made, but they stopped making it because of the stricter emission rules the government put into effect. Although the best diesel ever made, it could no longer be made because the 7.3 could not meet the guidelines. We have had at least 20 couriers over the years who retired from their careers and worked part time with us. Most all of them have loved the work because they loved driving and they earned extra money on top of their pensions and social security and they still had a lot more to give. Many had industrial backgrounds, so they knew the importance of getting a part needed for production or an outage. All of our couriers have been, and still are, eager to do a good job for the customers we are serving. And our customers have been wonderful. We have several who have been in our FSI family for over 20 years. They realize when we do a job for them, they do not have to worry about damage in transporting their product, getting the delivery there in time, professionalism, reliability, and efficiency at an honest price. Our goal has always been to serve our customers with the best service we could possibly give them and we believe we have and still are. We hope to continue serving our customers who are manufacturers, industrial suppliers, fabricators, construction companies, communication companies, and medical facilities to name a few throughout the southeast region. We have a great team of couriers working with us. If you haven't used us, give us a try, and leave the delivering to the professionals who have done this for 24 years with efficiency. Call our dispatcher to answer any questions you may have or to give you a quote at 256-341-0204. We would be happy to serve you.

12/23/2024

We wish you all the Happiest of Holidays! Click on the picture below.

Christmas is a journey of the heart. May the special joy of the season find its way to you and yours. Merry Christmas from [SENDER'S NAME]

09/12/2024

America is changing rapidly. If you worked hard, you were rewarded. If you wanted to start your own business, you were able to and encouraged. Remember back when there were small family owned grocery stores. The place you bought your penny candy, where mom sent you for the can of tomatoes she needed for dinner or a loaf of bread. They are all gone now, taken over by the big chain food stores. How about the little family run hardware stores....where have they gone? They were put out of business by large chain home improvements stores.The local ice cream shops, family owned auto parts stores, dress shops, independent restaurants, and more. They were forced to closed because they couldn't compete with the pricing of the larger stores. They not only took away our small businesses, they took away the American Dream. Then, to make it worse, the large companies began to be purchased by larger conglomerates. Many by foreign countries, then online purchasing stepped in, and now, most of our purchases are made to online companies OUT of the United States. It was gradual, but it has happened, in the name of progress, but progress for who? Our once called "land of opportunity" has diminished in leaps and bounds, and I think it was because we were sleeping at the wheel and let it happen. In 10 years, we won't see brick & mortar stores anymore, everything will be purchased online and made oversees. Our production jobs are already in jeopardy, but due to become much worse. Think about the origin of what you are buying and is what you are buying jeopardizing the American worker? Once America loses control of its trade and production, what happens to the America we once knew? Where has the "land of opportunity" gone, who is now benefiting and who is in control? Remember to support small businesses. They are the backbone of our country. Most are owned by the baby boomers. The baby boomers built our country back after the Great Depression and the baby boomers have work ethic. I have had several issues with the customer service from large chain stores recently. They just don't care if the customer is satisfied, and their work ethic is not to be found. However, the small business will bend over backward to attain customer satisfaction and work ethic is still prevalent in most cases. Get the word out.....we need to maintain the America we once knew and not give away the country we built.

08/03/2024

Twenty-three years ago on July 1, 2001, FSI began with a Nissan pickup and a Jeep Cherokee, delivering small parts to various manufacturers along the river. I had just taken early retirement from the paper mill when Champion was bought out by International Paper. I cold called all the industrial suppliers in the area, dropped off our brochures, and mailed a zillion postcards to all the buyers for the manufacturing plants in North Alabama. We would either make it, or not. If not, I would have to get another job, so, I gave it all I had to succeed. My late husband, Jim, and I trudged on and after a couple of months, we could see it picking up. One day, we were asked to pick up 3 - 20' sticks of pipe. We didn't have a trailer yet, but we came up with a plan and fulfilled the job. We had a boat at the Brickyard Marina and we had a boat trailer for that 24' boat. We pulled it out, and picked up the pipe, 3 - 20' sticks of 6" SS - Sch40 pipe to #34 PM at IP. As we drove down that narrow road between the paper machines pulling a boat trailer with the pipe in the "V"...... I heard, "Hey, Barb, where's the boat?" I just smiled, and we got the job done.
Then one day.....all the hospitals started calling, an avenue we had not thought of pursuing, and suddenly, we were also in the medical courier business as well. That was a God-send, and helped us bridge the gap until industrial jobs took hold and we were steady. We still do Medical, but 95% of what we do is industrial. Within 4 months, we had to buy a bigger truck, then a trailer, then a larger truck and gooseneck trailer, a cargo van for awhile, and even a little hatchback Ford that we used for very small things, and that car ran over 350,000 miles! Our prize truck of all time, was an F250 Diesel with a 7.3 powerstroke engine that they quit making. Jamey was driving it when that truck rolled past 500,000 miles at the top of Chapman Mtn. in Huntsville many years ago. Best truck we ever had. We really put the miles on our trucks and they wear out quickly in our business, so we are consistently replacing them as the miles stack up on them. Our trucks have to be in great shape because we are on a mission every day to expediently pick up and deliver for our customers. We have probably bought and sold over 25 trucks in the last 23 years and we have had couriers who were retired from their careers, work with us many more years after, and finally retire again with us. We have had some of the best couriers working with us over the last 23 years. Some have passed on, and it saddens me to think about them and how special they were to us. We have been around awhile. Thank you to our many customers that have been with us our entire journey. We are a company with work ethic. We do everything in our power to accommodate our customers so they are satisfied. We not only want to meet their expectations, but we aim to exceed them. And thank you to our fine couriers, Mike Kirby, David Bolding, Virginia Byrd, Charles Teague, & Hank Kimbrell. We couldn't do what we do without you.
-Barbara Milligan, CEO & Jamey Milligan, President
AND Adison Milligan, Administrative Assistant

We also wish our Adison "Good Luck and Be Safe" as her last day of work in the office was this week. She is heading off to college this weekend to Troy University in the Nursing Program. Thank you for all your hard work this past year. We will miss you, BIG TIME!