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Pharr & Laredo, Texas USDOT 375481 · MC-225273 Bonded · Asset-Based
(956) 781-6675
Transport Continental, Inc. (TCI)
Since 1989 · Second generation

Your freight crosses
three countries.
Ours never sits.

Asset-based, bonded, and family-run since 1989 — 91 power units out of Pharr and Laredo moving dry van, flatbed, step deck and over-dimensional freight across the US, Mexico and Canada.

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Federal record · 509 inspections

Look us up before
you call us.

Every shipper's procurement team pulls a carrier's out-of-service rates before awarding a lane. Here are ours, from the same federal database you'd check — 24 months to July 2026.

Vehicle out-of-service
7.2%
National average 22.26%
Roughly three times better than the national average.
Driver out-of-service
1.0%
National average 6.67%
Nearly seven times better. This is the number that wins bids.
FMCSA safety rating
Satisfactory
USDOT 375481 · MC-225273
Active interstate for-hire authority. Bonded, asset-based common carrier.
✎ Why this section exists: every figure above is public, verifiable, and already true — and appears nowhere on the current trans-con.com. It's the strongest asset TCI owns and a buyer currently has to go to a federal database to find it.
91 power units

One of the newer fleets
on the border.

Tractors and air-ride trailers, owned and maintained in-house at our own shops. Asset-based means the truck that quotes your load is the truck that hauls it — not a broker's phone call.

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Dry Van

53′ air-ride dry vans for general freight, palletized loads and cross-dock consolidation.

53′ · Air Ride
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Flatbed

For steel, metal products, lumber, machinery and anything that has to load from the side or the top.

53′ · Tarped on request
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Step Deck

Lower deck height for taller freight that won't clear on a standard flatbed.

Drop deck · Ramps available
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Over-Dimensional

Oversized and over-width loads with permitting and route planning handled in-house.

Permits · Escorts
✎ Demo note: equipment types come from TCI's own homepage copy and the FMCSA cargo classifications. Exact trailer counts, deck dimensions and weight capacities aren't published anywhere — those are the specs a shipper actually wants, and they're the fastest content win available.
Three countries

Two terminals on
the busiest border
crossings in Texas.

Pharr and Laredo aren't convenient locations — they're the two highest-volume commercial land ports on the US–Mexico border. Cross-dock, trans-load, storage and maintenance at both.

United StatesDomestic & interstate
MexicoBonded cross-border
CanadaLong-haul north
Headquarters
601 E Ferguson, Pharr, TX 78577
Second terminal
Laredo, Texas
Services at both
Cross-dock · Trans-load · Storage · Maintenance
Authority
Bonded common carrier
Cargo
General freight · Metals · Lumber · Machinery
TCI tractor-trailer on a Rio Grande Valley highway
Since 1989

Three trucks.
Ten trailers.
One family.

  • 1956Jimmy Cowart arrives in South Texas as a truck driver.
  • 1989Jimmy and his son Jim found TCI with three trucks and ten trailers.
  • 2000Jim Cowart takes over as CEO and leads the company's growth.
  • Today91 power units, 83 drivers, two Texas terminals, three countries.

Thirty-seven years, still family-led, still asset-based. In an industry where most of the phone calls come from brokers with no equipment, that's the difference.

Now hiring

83 drivers.
91 trucks.
Do the math.

We have equipment sitting because we're short drivers. If you run clean and you want to be home — not living in a sleeper three weeks at a stretch — come talk to us.

  • Terminals in Pharr and Laredo — RGV and border runs
  • One of the newer fleets on the border, maintained in our own shops
  • A 1.0% driver out-of-service rate — we keep you legal and rolling
  • Family-owned since 1989 — you'll know who signs your check
✎ Demo note: on the live trans-con.com, both Drive For Us and Careers return 404 — while still sitting in the navigation. Pay, home-time policy, and equipment assignment aren't published, so this section states only what the federal record and TCI's own copy support.
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Application received.

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Get a rate

Tell us the lane.

Origin, destination, commodity and equipment. We'll come back with a rate and a truck — not a brokered guess.

📞 Dispatch(956) 781-6675 📍 Headquarters601 E Ferguson, Pharr TX
🪪 AuthorityUSDOT 375481 · MC-225273
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