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takes big step into ltl dc velocity . www.dcvelocity.com . retrieved 2015 06 16 . sources barry david january 20 2010 . the 100 million revenue club freightquote.com . the wall street journal . retrieved 17 march 2014 . associated press january 28 2014 . freightquote plans to add 400 jobs in kansas city . columbia daily tribune . retrieved 17 march 2014 . gov. nixon joins company officials mayor james in opening new freightquote corporate headquarters in kansas city . office of missouri governor jay nixon . july 16 2013 . retrieved 17 march 2014 . freightquote breaks ground on mo. offices . msn news . retrieved 17 march 2014 . video quinn kathy august 14 2012 . freightquote.com breaks ground on new 44m headquarters . fox news kansas city . retrieved 17 march 2014 . stewart matt july 16 2013 . freightquote leaves kansas for missouri . fox news kansas city . retrieved 17 march 2014 . trucking in growth freightquote carries the revenue load by investing in service and technology kansas city business journal freightquote.com buys pennsylvania firm kansas city business journal rafter dan july 18 2013 . red brokerage van trust real estate bring online shipping company to kansas city . re journals . retrieved 17 march 2014 . external links edit freightquote on the inc 5000 list 2006 logistics partner of the year retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title freightquote & oldid 732532157 categories logistics companies of the united statescompanies established in 1998companies based in missouri1998 establishments in kansashidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from october 2014all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles needing additional references from december 2007all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 august 2016 at 16 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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