Estes Express Lines is a privately owned American freight transportation provider based in Richmond, Virginia.

[3] The company was founded near Chase City, Virginia, by cotton farmer Webb Wallace ("W.W.") Estes (1897–1971).

Estes started providing livestock moving services for local farmers in 1931[4] with a used Chevrolet truck.

By 1932 the trucking business was also hauling general freight and provided enough revenue for Estes to hire his first driver.

[5] The trucking company took on the name Estes Express Lines in 1937 and a year later opened branch terminals in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia.

After outgrowing its original offices and moving to a larger location in Chase City in 1941, the company purchased operating rights for several routes on the Northern Neck of Virginia in 1943.

However, the company was able to improve both safety and efficiency sufficiently to allow it to continue to operate and grow its annual revenue to US$1 million by 1957.

[6] In the late 1990s and early 2000s the company expanded its service area significantly to Canada in 1996 and its first terminal west of the Mississippi in St. Louis, Missouri in 1999.

These moves were followed by the addition of services to Puerto Rico, St. Croix and St. Thomas in the Caribbean in 2000 and major commercial markets in Mexico in 2003.