Date: 2/9/00
Cherryville trio bounces back after 1995 shut down of Carolina Freight

CHERRYVILLE - Almost four years ago, a trio of men rose from the ashes of Carolina Freight Corp. to form a new company poised for growth in 2000. Company officials say they will expand this year to offer a wider variety of services geared toward industries besides transportation, its initial focus. John Rudasill, Howard Roberts and Ron Sigmon started Phoenix Computer Services, Inc. at 400 E. Main St. in downtown Cherryville in 1996. Phoenix' cornerstone is the partners' six decades of combined service in transportation and management information systems (MIS) or data processing. At Carolina Freight, Rudasill was the president of Carrier Computer Services, the trucking corporation's wholly owned subsidiary responsible for data processing. Roberts was the senior director of operations, and Sigmon was the director of applications development.
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More recently, Phoenix Corporate Services, Inc. has expanded its business to include a wide variety of computer services to non-transportation businesses, as well as individual computer users.
Phoenix Corporate Services, Inc. is providing information technology support for smaller organizations that do not have the expertise internally to address this highly complex and critical area of business operation. With a background from the large corporate environment, Phoenix Corporate Services, Inc. offers the unique ability to provide the vision associated with a large corporation applied to the needs of a smaller business. This combination has proven to be quite successful, due to the ability to creatively address the problems of these smaller organizations from the operational perspective of a large corporation and ultimately has proven to be quite beneficial to the customers served. Phoenix Corporate Services, Inc.'s mission is to be viewed as their client's information technology department, so the client can focus on their own core business and their own customer's requirements, without having to worry about technology issues.
For individuals and home users, Phoenix Corporate Services, Inc. provides much needed support for those who need a computer for email, Internet access, school or a home business, but do not have the expertise to understand the complexities associated with the inter workings of the computer's hardware and software. Phoenix Corporate Services, Inc. applies the same knowledge and skill set used with their business clients to the situations associated with these much smaller home computer users to provide them with the same level of required service.