About Lake Erie Transportation

Lake Erie Transportation’s evolution has been deeply rooted in the Erie community since the 1930’s. In the beginning, the Benacci family started running produce from their farm to the tri-state region with two stake body trucks. Joe Benacci expanded his trucking fleet to form Lake Erie Trucking, Inc in 1953. Deregulation of interstate trucking in the ‘80s helped the Benacci family flourish with trucking, warehousing, and leasing. In 1998 the Benacci family sold their Truckload division and Purchased Dodsworth Trucking, a well-established LTL cartage agent servicing Erie, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and all points in between. The Benacci family wanted to expand into third party Logistics, which led to the hiring of Chuck Sites to oversee the formation of a new company, Lake Erie Logistics, LLC. Lake Erie Logistics was now able to offer Local and nation-wide transportation and warehousing. In 2016, Chuck Sites headed up an investment group to purchase Lake Erie Logistics. Lake Erie Transportation, LLC was born and became the parent company of Lake Erie Logistics, LLC but still wasn’t complete. In 2017, LET ownership humbly asked the Benacci family to revive the Lake Erie Trucking name, the Benacci family graciously approved. Subsequently, Lake Erie Transportation, LLC became the parent company of Lake Erie Trucking, LLC the asset based local carrier, also Lake Erie Logistics, LLC offering third party Logistics.

Today, Lake Erie Transportation has grown to offer regional and nationwide transportation, home delivery, warehousing and truck repair. Lake Erie Transportation, LLC always puts the customers first, and with a wide variety of equipment and services allows us to provide customer tailored shipping needs. Lake Erie Transportation’s investment in its people has been the main driver of its success. As proud as we are of our history, we’re always looking forward to our future and meeting our customers’ needs.