Family Business Profile: Sunset Transportation hits the road with second generation at the wheel

Family Business Profile: Sunset Transportation hits the road with second generation at the wheel
March 23, 2021 Matt Fernandes
Lindsey Graves, CEO and majority owner of Sunset Transportation, took over the role in late 2020. She sits in an office here.

This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on March 19, 2021. 


Lindsey Graves remembers the phone always ringing at her home on Workbench Drive in Sunset Hills.

Her dad, Jim Williams, started trucking company Sunset Transportation in 1989 from the family’s basement after spending the previous 18 years managing the fleet of trucks for his family’s business, Williams Paper Co.

Sunset launched with two employees and served as an agent for small trucking carriers, helping them to ship clients’ orders. Today, Sunset Transportation is one of St. Louis’ largest privately held companies with $187 million in revenue and more than 160 employees in offices in Nashville; Wisconsin; Minnesota; North Carolina; Michigan; and Mexico.

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