G&D Hoffman Announces New Joint Venture, Iillinois-Based Bulk Transfer & Intermodal Services

by Jake Tully - Published: 4/24/2017

It was announced earlier today that G&D Hoffman Transportation will participate in a joint merger with Major Prime Plastics and the M. Holland Company in order to form the Gold Standard Distribution Center in Northern Illinois.

Along with Major Prime Plastics and M. Holland Company, G&D Hoffman Transportation will relocate to Coal City, Illinois in order to operate out of a 400,000-square-foot building that provides room for a bulk trucking fleet as well as close to 700 rail cars.

As Gold Standard Distribution Center, the three companies plan to provide warehousing, packaging and bulk transfer services both domestically and internationally – a plan that combines the individual specialties of all parties involved.

"This venture has the potential to develop into a major hub for U.S. inventories," said Jordan Hoffman, Vice-President of G&D Hoffman Transportation."G&D Trucking, Inc. has had the honor and pleasure of being a service provider of bulk transportation, trans-loading, and warehousing for the M. Holland Company for the past 30 years.M. Holland has been a vital and extremely valuable key to our growth and success throughout those years.We look forward to the continued partnership."

According to the companies involved, the location of Coal City, Illinois is within a close range to some of the world’s largest intermodal yards, nearly 60 miles southwest from Chicago.

It is the hope of the new Coal City facility to aid both growth and alignment of several modes of transportation and logistics and to increase the speed and effiency at which these particular facets of the industry operate.

With plans to be operational in the first month of 2018, Gold Standard Distribution is expected to provide more efficient intermodal transit with 15 Distribution Centers located across the United States.

G&D Hoffman Transportation, currently headquartered in Channahon, IL has been known as a bulk transporter in the country of both liquid and dry goods. In addition to their trucking fleet, the transportation company currently has three large-scale railroad transloading sites located in Arkansas and Illinois.

Founded in 1950, M. Holland promotes itself as one of the most extensive distributors of plastic resin in the country.

Major Prime Plastics, based out of the Villa Park, Illinois, sees over 50 years of distribution and packing within the thermoplastic industry.

Both G&D Hoffman Transportation and Major Prime Plastics have provided logistic services to M. Holland for over three decades.