EQUIPMENT
Ee-Jay operates a modern and diversified fleet of tractors and trailers suited primarily for the transportation of plastic pellets and powders but also designed to transport a variety of liquid petroleum products including gasoline, diesel, lubricating oil and liquid asphalts.
Ee-Jay's substantial fleet of large cube dry bulk aluminum pneumatic self loading trailers are dedicated to plastic service. All valves and fittings are stainless steel/aluminum, all gaskets are sanitary white and trailers are equipped with inline filters and stainless steel hoses to insure product purity. Tractor and trailer exteriors are cleaned regularly and trailer interiors, hoses, discharge line, etc, are washed with hot water and cleaned as required. Because of the highly contamination prone nature of the material terminated, virtually all trailers are dedicated to a specific material.
Tractors are equipped with PTO-driven blowers and pumps. Blowers provide air for delivery of food grade material and are equipped with a filter on each side of the blower. These blower filters are regularly inspected, cleaned or replaced. Additionally trailers are equipped with heat exchangers to provide exact unloading air temperatures depending upon the product that is handled.
FACILITIES
Home office and company owned and operated railyard are located at 1501 Lincoln Avenue in East St. Louis, IL. Rail service to E. St. Louis is provided by the TRRA of St. Louis. A full service satellite terminal located at 2578 Kasota Avenue St. Paul MN is positioned so as to have the ability to efficiently access leased facilitates from the Union Pacific Railroad and Minnesota Commercial Railway Company. Ee-Jay makes more than 200 jumbo rail car spots available to its customers.
Steam heat is provided to storage tanks and rail cars alike with 125hp boilers. Boilers also provide steam to the company’s cleaning facility. An on premises inground platform scale equipped with an electronic digital printer and remote digital billboard display insures accurate loading at both the East Saint Louis and Minneapolis terminal. Warehousing and packaging has recently been reintroduced by Ee-Jay as a service to its customers and has been used to great advantage as it rounds out the variety of logistical solutions available to our customers.
A fully equipped maintenance and parts storage facility provides a total maintenance and major overhaul capability for all company equipment.
EXPERIENCE
Ee-Jay has been involved in ex-rail movements of bulk commodities since 1953. Over 6,000 truck loads originate at Ee-Jay annually representing a 1500 jumbo railcar through put. Our terminal management has an average employment date of 1977 making them experienced industry leaders in the safe and proper handling of bulk commodities.
VACUUM TRANSFER
Several portable "stand alone" vacuum machines are also utilized in the terminal. They are powered by electric motors and self contained diesel engines and provide an additional level of flexibility available to our customers.
INVENTORY CONTROL AND REPORTING
Computer generated railcar location and inventory controls enable us to maintain up to the minute inventory. All receipts and shipments are reported in strict accordance with each customer’s individual and specific requirements as to form and timeliness.
TOTAL CONTROL = PRODUCT PURITY
Total control and responsibility for the product from the time the car enters our yard until the load goes into the consignee’s storage bin.
» No finger-pointing between terminal facility and carrier, as is often the case.
» Our strict cleaning and handling standards, along with SPI’s “Operation Clean Sweep” and CMA’s “Responsible Care” programs, are maintained throughout the entire loading and delivery process.
» To insure the delivery of contamination free material we own all our tractors as well as trailers (no independent operators). Drivers are given extensive training in the appropriate clean handling and delivery requirements of our customers’ products.
RECOGNITION, INNOVATIONS, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Ee-Jay Motor Transports, Inc. receives recognition from the National Tank Truck Carriers Association for safety on a regular basis in all competitive categories and has received quality performance awards from all shipper customers it serves that grade their vendors.
We regularly participate in projects to bring Drug and Alcohol Awareness to inner-city youths with local civic and fraternal organizations by sponsoring the distribution of thousands of items of Drug Awareness paraphernalia into the local community. In addition, we also contribute to urban day care centers and aid to the elderly in neighborhood housing projects.
Highly critical appraisals from our customers are encouraged and solicited. We feel we are the very best at what we do and continually seek to be even better. Innovations of which we are proud include sleeving wound stainless hot air hoses with a special heat resistant material to preserve the integrity of the compressed blower air and discharge lines against dust and moisture intrusion. We also designed and had manufactured a unique fabric filter pellet trap which eliminates the release of pellets to the environment during blow down functions.
