FFE Transportation Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. has announced the appointment of W. C. "Bill" Bailey as vice president of national accounts.

Bailey was formerly vice president of sales and pricing for Alterman Transport Lines Inc. (ATL), a family-owned national refrigerated trucking company based in Opa Locka, Fla.
ATL announced last week that it will liquidate and cease operations.
Refrigerated Transporter magazine reported that ATL will stop accepting freight on Dec. 20, 2002. ATL was the only other major trucking company providing national service for less-than-truckload (LTL) refrigerated shipments.
For 2001, FFEX hauled 253,000 LTL shipments, which generated about $91 million of revenue. According to Commercial Carrier Journal, ATL's total revenue during 2001 was about $68 million. Most of that was from refrigerated LTL service. For 2001, FFEX reported total freight revenue from LTL and full-truckload activities of $327.3 million.
"Bill brings us 29 years of transportation experience in sales, pricing and operations," said Stoney M. Stubbs Jr.
"In a market niche as small as refrigerated trucking, there are very few real experienced professionals. Bill is one of them. He is known and admired by folks in the trucking business and those in the business of making perishable goods all across the nation. He is especially an expert in refrigerated LTL operations, an area of our business that we've been paying special attention to during the last two years," Stubbs said.
He added that Bailey will be based in Florida and will have National LTL warehousing and logistics responsibilities.
Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. says it is the largest publicly owned, temperature-controlled carrier of perishable goods (primarily food products, health care supplies and confectionery items) on the North American continent. Its services extend from Canada, throughout the 48 contiguous United States, into Mexico.