A-P-A Transport Corp.

At one point it was the nation's fourth largest interstate freight trucking company.

[1] Founded in 1947 by Arthur Imperatore Sr. and his brothers Eugene, Arnold, George and Harold in West New York, New Jersey, it started as a local trucking business with a single surplus US Army truck, originally called "Imperatore Bros. Moving and Trucking."

In the 1950s, after a few years of legal wrangling over the name by the A&P grocery chain, they simply added a trailing A.

[2] In 1952 they built a new terminus at 88th Street and Tonnelle Ave in North Bergen and by 1958 the company surpassed $1 million in gross revenue.

The company enjoyed great success, growing to more than 3,500 tractor-trailers and operating 31 freight terminals by 1991.