Universal buys Noble & Pitts

Warren, MI-based Universal Truckload Services is buying Scottsboro, AL-based freight broker and truckload carrier Noble & Pitts for an undisclosed sum.

Don Cochran, Universal’s president & CEO, noted that Noble & Pitts generated combined truckload and brokerage revenues of $33 million last year, including fuel surcharges of $3 million, with a staff of 30 employees, 26 agents, and 250 owner-operators and 30 employees

He added that the plan is to merge Noble & Pitts’ dry van, flatbed and brokerage services into Universal’s Mason & Dixon Lines subsidiary.