transportationreport
BY MARK B. SOLOMON, SENIOR EDITOR
With costs and regulatory burdens on the rise, even
veteran trucking company owners are eyeing the exits.
WHEN A UTAH FARMER NAMED CHESTER ROBERT
England decided soon after World War I that there had to
be a better way to make a living, he bought a Model T truck
and started hauling milk in the morning for a local dairy,
then produce in the afternoon from farms to market.
Over the decades, England’s two sons, their two sons, and
then their six sons, joined the family business. After 91
years, Salt Lake City-based C.R. England Inc. has become
one of the most established and successful refrigerated
truckers in the land.
Yet Dean England, president of the privately held compa-
ny and one of the third generation of Englands to work in
the business, is under no illusions of how his grandfather
would have fared if he began now.
