Carry Transit

What Carry Transit does

Carry Transit is a privately held, for-profit transportation services firm founded in 1979 and headquartered at Oak Brook, Illinois, in the United States. It employs 251–500 people and delivers trucks, loading, tank wash, and international transportation services to industrial customers, generating revenue through B2B service contracts on a quote-based pricing model without publicly disclosed rates.

The input also contains an extensive operational profile that explicitly names Heniff Transportation Systems, LLC as a separate legal entity (LLC), sharing the same Oak Brook postal address at 2222 Camden Court. That profile describes a substantially larger full-service tank trucking and logistics business operating nearly 100 locations across North America and Europe with nearly 2,000 drivers, organized into wholly-owned operating subsidiaries spanning chemical hauling, food-grade transport (Heniff Food Grade), rail transloading, ISO shipping and depot operations, tank cleaning (Total Clean), logistics management (Heniff Logistics), fleet maintenance (Maintenance), and European operations (Heniff Transportation Europe). Its go-to-market is sales-led with customer-facing and employee-facing digital portals, and its revenue model is professional-services tank trucking and logistics on multi-year contracts. The relationship, if any, between Carry Transit and Heniff Transportation Systems, LLC is not stated in the available data, and the input does not establish whether Carry Transit operates the full Heniff service portfolio or is a smaller, related entity.

What is verifiable is the regulatory and compliance posture: the business holds an RCMS Statement of Conformity under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care initiative at Oak Brook headquarters (2022 documentation on file) and participates in the EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership (2022), positioning it for safety-sensitive chemical and food-grade freight. Industry association memberships (Women in Trucking, Truckers Against Trafficking) and active social channels on Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube provide brand presence but no AI/ML product, no app, and no disclosed public API.

Name

Carry Transit

Legal name

Heniff Transportation Systems, LLC

Website

https://carrytransit.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Carry Transit is a privately held Oak Brook, Illinois-based transportation services firm, founded in 1979, providing trucks, loading, tank wash, and international transportation services to industrial customers, with 251–500 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Tank Trucking and Logistics Services

NAICS

Freight Transportation Arrangement (488510), Freight Transportation Arrangement (48851), Freight Transportation Arrangement (4885)

SIC

Trucking & Courier Services (No Air) (4210), Trucking (No Local) (4213), Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731), Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Bulk & Tanker Road Freight Forwarding (Dry Bulk, Liquids, Chemicals) (TLACACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Bulk Transloading & Intermodal Bulk Transfer Facilities (Rail/Truck/Conveyor/Barge) (TLAHABAN), Intermodal Terminal Value-Added Services (Cross-Dock, Transload, Stuffing/Stripping) (TLAJAFAL)

Keywords

• Tank trucking services
• Chemical transportation
• Food grade logistics
• Rail transloading
• ISO container shipping

Headquarters

HQ city

Oak Brook

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Tank Trucking and Logistics Services: Full service tank trucking and logistics solutions including chemical and food transportation, tank cleaning, rail transloading, full managed service operations and ISO import/export operations

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Carry Transit is a full-service tank trucking and logistics provider that transports chemical and food-grade liquid cargo in specialized tankers, transloads between rail and truck, runs ISO container shipping and depot operations at major ports, cleans tanker trailers, and offers managed service logistics and fleet maintenance. Operations span nearly 100 locations across North America and Europe with nearly 2,000 drivers, supported by an integrated global freight network technology platform serving both drivers and customers.

Product overview

Heniff Transportation is a full-service logistics provider offering a portfolio of intermodal tank transportation and logistics services. The company operates as a unified platform of services rather than a single product, including chemical hauling, food-grade transportation, European operations, logistics management, tank cleaning (Total Clean), ISO shipping/depot operations, rail transloading, and fleet maintenance. With nearly 100 locations across North America and Europe and nearly 2000 drivers, the integrated network provides chemical and food tank hauling, managed service operations, and ISO import/export solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Chemical Hauling
• Heniff Food Grade
• Heniff Transportation Europe
• Heniff Logistics
• Total Clean
• ISO Shipping
• Rail Transloading
• Maintenance

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• American Chemistry Council (Responsible Care)coreOthersActive participation in Responsible Care initiative, a global voluntary commitment by the chemical industry to safely handle and manage chemicals throughout their lifecycle. Heniff maintains RCMS Statement of Conformity certification.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Trimac Transportation: Trimac is a major North American bulk carrier providing liquid and dry bulk trucking, transloading and terminal services across the U.S. and Canada; directly overlaps Heniff's chemical and food-grade bulk trucking plus Canadian footprint.
• Indian River Transport: Indian River Transport is a Florida-based liquid bulk tank carrier focused on chemicals and petroleum products with terminal operations; overlaps Heniff's chemical-hauling, terminal-based service model at slightly smaller scale.
• Groendyke Transport: Groendyke is a tank truck carrier specializing in bulk liquid chemicals and petroleum products across the U.S., with terminals and a fleet comparable in scale to Heniff's core liquid bulk business.
• Transport Service Company: Transport Service Company is a specialized liquid bulk carrier serving chemical and food-grade customers with tank truck and terminal services; similar business mix and customer verticals to Heniff.
• Quality Distribution / Boasso Global: Quality Distribution (now part of Boasso Global) is the largest North American provider of liquid bulk tank trucking, ISO container depot and tank cleaning services for chemicals and food-grade liquids — the closest direct peer to Carry Transit / Heniff.
• Kenan Advantage Group: Kenan Advantage Group is one of the largest tank truck carriers in North America, focused on bulk chemicals, food-grade liquids, and specialty freight, with a similarly multi-service terminal network — directly comparable to Heniff's liquid bulk platform.
• Ruan Transport: Ruan operates dedicated and bulk transportation including tank trucking and supply chain solutions for chemical, food and consumer goods customers; comparable multi-service, multi-vertical model to Heniff.

Emerging players

• Tank Holding Corp: Tank Holding Corp is a tank trailer manufacturer and service provider that supplies much of the equipment Heniff and peers use; adjacent rather than directly competing but highly relevant to the tank trucking ecosystem Heniff operates in.

Others

• Heartland Express: Heartland Express is a publicly traded dry van and irregular route truckload carrier; not a direct competitor in liquid bulk but competes for U.S. trucking capacity and driver supply relevant to Heniff's fleet operations.

Broad incumbents

• Schneider National: Schneider National is a large publicly traded diversified carrier with a Bulk division covering tank and intermodal; competes with Heniff for chemical and food-grade freight but operates across many other modes as well, making it a broad incumbent rather than direct niche peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/HeniffTransport
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCfG7iHiTVVsi9RxPEQ7YWgw
• Facebookfacebook.com/CarryTransitCRRY
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/heniff-transportation-systems-llc
• Instagraminstagram.com/heniff

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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