Brown Trucking Buys N.C. Trucking, Logistics Firm

James Brown Contracting has acquired Durham, N.C.-based West Brothers’ Cos. a trucking, logistics and leasing of commercial fleet services in the Southeast. Terms were not disclosed.

West has four companies: West Brothers’ Transportation Services.; West Brothers’ Transportation Solutions, a brokerage provider; Logistics Leasing, an asset-based full-service truck leasing and maintenance company; and West Logistics, a provider of contract warehousing and distribution services.

The companies will become a division of Brown Trucking, the name under which James Brown Contracting does business. Current owners Craig West and Tommy West will exit the business.

“The addition of West will leverage the existing fleet and management teams of both companies, creating a stronger combined entity,” Navigation Capital Partners, which acquired Atlanta-based Brown in 2008, said in a statement.

West has offices, distribution centers and maintenance facilities in North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, New Jersey and California. It has about 150 tractors and 260 trailers, according to American Trucking Associations’ fleet data.

Brown announced in September it bought Tennessee carrier Schrader Trucking Co. (Click here for previous coverage.)