When Carolina Freight Corporation was acquired by a competitor and the information technology center was closed, the founding partners formed their own company, purchased the software that they had developed over the past 20 years and began offering these same services to Crouse Cartage Company, a Russell 2000 transportation company, headquartered in the Midwest.  This basically required starting from ground zero, which included:

• Construction of a new data center
• Developing the specifications and purchasing of a new mainframe computer
• Establishing a wide-area communications network for a multi-state operation
• Purchasing, configuring and installing all PC workstations for the company’s general office and 60+ remote locations
• Purchasing, configuring and installing Windows servers, as required
• Configuring Exchange email server and all users
• Setting up a remote operation for the company’s general office complex, which included remote printing as well as remote processing
• Training all of the company’s personnel in the use of the system and  providing the same support and training on the desktop computer hardware & software
• Staffing and running a 24x7 operation
• Making all the necessary system and application changes and enhancements, as required
• Developing PC based applications for customer coding, document image retrieval, rating automation and terminal operation performance
• Developing and integrating a full document imaging system
• Developing Internet solutions to address and meet corporate and customer requirements for information maintained in a variety of legacy systems