Oak Harbor Freight Lines

The Founding Years: Oak Harbor Transfer, the forerunner to Oak Harbor Freight Lines, was founded in 1916 by Ben Koetje of Oak Harbor, WA. Oak Harbor Transfer was a local cartage carrier servicing Whidbey Island. In 1936 John and Gus Vander Pol purchased the small island carrier for $600.00 cash and assumed its debt. Their younger brother Henry joined them in 1937. In 1942 the brothers purchased another small carrier called Oak Harbor Freight Lines, they merged the two operations together and kept the latter name.

Family Business: The brothers over time developed the carrier into a small LTL operation serving a number of counties in Western Washington. In 1974 Henry purchased the company in full. In this same year his two sons Edward and David began working with their father.

Growing Years: With deregulation in 1980 Oak Harbor began its expansion which continues today. Throughout this period Oak Harbor Freight Lines developed into a highly respected regional LTL carrier serving points throughout the States of California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Currently with 35 terminals, 1300+ employees and annual revenues over $160 million Oak Harbor has established itself as a leading premium service carrier in the west, providing consistent high quality services at competitive (not the lowest) prices. Currently owned and operated by Edward and David Vander Pol, the company’s Co-Presidents, Oak Harbor Freight Lines serves more points direct in the Northwest than any other single carrier.

The Future: With uniformed professional drivers, and a corporate wide focus to serve the customer, Oak Harbor is positioned to continue down the path of success. The continued Investing in technology, people, facilities and quality processes assures Oak Harbor’s infrastructure will continue to meet their customers’ needs. Via strategic partners Oak Harbor offers services throughout the United States and Canada allowing many of their customers to single source their transportation needs with Oak Harbor.

LTL Service

With 36 locations, over 850 tractors and 2400 trailers, Oak Harbor Freight Lines offers direct service in five western states including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho. Since 1916 Oak Harbor Freight Lines have been providing high quality service by fully understanding and meeting the requirements of our customers. We continue to drive this quality standard by “Bringing Peace of Mind” through creative solutions and enhanced service options such as residential delivery, time-window specific delivery, and Saturday delivery.

Our LTL (Less than Truckload) service extend beyond our direct territory, offering nationwide services to the rest of the United States and Canada, through strategic partnership with network of carriers, a premium service that delivers your freight fast, between one and three days faster than transcontinental carrier.

Oak Harbor Freight Lines offers custom solutions, in part, through Truckload Services. Truckload Services is Truckload. Truckload service is designed to offer flexibility that gives you the capacity where you need it, when you need it, short haul or long haul in 48′ and 53′ vans, full truckload, partial loads, curtain side, flatbed trailers, refrigerated loads, intermodal, and expedited.

The buying power we have developed with our strategic partners allow us to offer you cost effective solution to manage your supply chain operation. Also consider our warehousing and storage services in Las Vegas as you review your supply chain operations in that area.

Whether you are looking for a fulfillment center, a distribution warehouse, or simply storage, our warehousing service in Las Vegas offers 17,000 square feet of highly flexible and secure space. And with our industry leading LTL freight service, we can match your warehousing solution with next-day or second-day LTL coverage in the western states.

Our next day delivery area is larger from Las Vegas than most carriers can achieve from Los Angeles, giving distributors the edge over their competitors that ship from LA. Using the buying power we have developed in our strategic partnership program, we will provide you with customized solutions to help you manage you supply chain more cost effectively and efficiently.