Keeney Truck Lines Inc
Keeney Truck Lines was founded in 1944 by Dan Keeney and one partner. Together they started the trucking business and a used truck sales lot. Company had five trucks and one contract to haul brick and clay products for the L.A. Brick and Clay Products Company. In 1953 he purchased the assets of the Ira P. Lamb trucking company and got their contract delivering bakery flour, animal feeds and grocery products out of their Vernon California facility. Forty six years later Keeney still has that General Mills contract, the L.A. Brick
operation was sold in 1963 when they sold out to Pacific Clay Products.
In 1962 the bulk flour operations of Keeney were spun off to a new company, Flour Transport, Inc. owned by Dan and Walt Keeney. This was done to provide access to the growing bulk flour delivery in the L. A. area and Keeney was under exclusive contract to General Mills for flour deliveries in that market. In 1963 Keeney bought 1/2 interest in a competitor, Scott Norby Company. One owner of that company was brought into Flour Transport as a part owner. All of the bulk operations of Scott Norby were merged in the Flour Transport operation and the vans continued to operate as before. In 1964 Scott Norby purchased Keeney Transportation from Walt Keeney and in 1965 Keeney Truck Lines was released form the exclusive portion of the General Mills contract and the Scott Norby operations were merged into Keeney. That left Keeney and Flour as the only trucking companies operated by the Keeney family. Dan ran Keeney and Walt took over the Flour Transport operations. When Dan decided to totally retire in 1995 the operations of Keeney and Flour were merged and Keeney became the surviving company and today operates both as a truckload van carrier and a bulk carrier.
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