Tim Petty is the CEO of Pettyco Express, a same-day delivery company that delivers everything from small packages to tractor trailer loads.
WHAT DOES PETTY DO?
He handles the sales for the company. “I’m kind of a jack of all trades.” His partner and president of the company, Steve Anastase, handles the accounting and manager responsibilities. “He does a good job at it. We are always in the hiring mode, we constantly want to improve our driver force to be above everyone else.”
WHAT DOES
THE COMPANY DO?
“We haul anything from a five-pound box to 55,000 pounds. All we ask is that the customer be there when we get there.” Their service includes next day service to Fernandina, Gainesville and St. Augustine, straight truck delivery, tractor trailer, lift gate service, flatbed delivery, warehousing and distribution, Internet order and entry tracking, immediate proof of delivery and residential and commercial moving and storage.
WHEN DOES
THE COMPANY DELIVER?
The 70 drivers are available 24 hours, seven days a week. They have a drive time chart from Jacksonville to cities in Florida and Georgia. “It will tell the customers exactly in hours how long it will take us to get there so they have an estimated time and rate.”
HOW HAS THE
COMPANY CHANGED
OVER THE YEARS?
Since the company opened in 1988, it has moved three times, landing in its current location on the corner of Highway Avenue and Ellis Road on the Westside where they built a 22-door facility. “We are in a good central location here. All of our drivers don’t start from here. We have 70 drivers spread out all over the city and we might send them an order straight to their house. We chose the Westside because of all of the industrial over here. We are in the mecca of warehouses. We are easy to locate here and if we were located in the Southside, traffic would slow our times down. We are running against the clock every day.” Their drivers have lap tops in each truck so they can communicate using e-mail. “That way we can track what we say back and forth, so if there is ever a problem, we can just pull up the e-mail.”
WHO ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS?
Bank of America, Baptist Medical Center, CSX Technology, Dantzler Lumber and Export Co., Florida Rock Industries, Jacksonville Airport Authority, Jacksonville Zoo, MRI Center of Jacksonville, Inc., Nemours Children’s Clinic and Quest Diagnostic. “Any company in Jacksonville would have a need for us. We do a lot of blood transfers and lab specimens. We do running for all of the hospitals and we do route fill-ins when their drivers are out.”
WHAT IS REWARDING ABOUT YOUR JOB?
“One of the most rewarding things is the people that I meet and the people I do business with. This is a high stress business and we take the stress out of it with the people that we work with. We eliminate the people that are bad apples, we give them to our competition.”
HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN SHIPPING?
He was in college at Middle Tennessee State University and was shot in a robbery. “He had the gun to my face and shot and I hit the gun and the bullet hit me in the shoulder.” He returned to Jacksonville, and after recovering went to work with Benton Express for 15 years as an independent contractor. He then opened his own shipping company with only three drivers.
WHERE DID THE NAME PETTYCO COME FROM?
His last name is Petty and he thought Pettyco reminded him of the “Petticoat Junction” television show. Their motto is, “Gotta go, call Pettyco.”
FAMILY
He has been married to Susan, a housewife, for 20 years. They have two children, Danielle, 18, and Megan, 15.
BIRTHPLACE
Jacksonville.
RESIDES
Whitehouse.