July 20, 2006

Paul Lobbregt of Milford, PA has joined New England Motor Freight (NEMF) as an account executive at the company's Newburgh (NY) area terminal, located at 194 Neelytown Road in Montgomery (NY). He will be servicing customers in Ulster, Duchess and Westchester counties in New York and Fairfield county in Connecticut.

Lobbregt comes to NEMF with more than 18 years in the trucking business. Before joining NEMF, he was in sales with Con-way Central Express in Newburgh, where he spent six years in operations before moving into sales for nearly four years. At Con-way, he received an award for best overall revenue growth in the metro region in 2004 and a company Leader award in 2005. Earlier, he had been in the transportation end of the food service industry for nine years.

Lobbregt served for many years as a volunteer firefighter in Dingman Township, PA. He and his wife, Laurie, have two sons, Tyler and Dylan.

NEMF's Newburgh area terminal serves the Hudson Valley area with premium less-than-truckload and truckload service, logistics management, consolidation, distribution, and warehousing.

Based in Elizabeth, NJ, family-owned NEMF (www.nemf.com) is the largest LTL (less-than-truckload) carrier in the Northeast region. It operates 30 terminals throughout the Northeast, Florida, Puerto Rico and Canada, and reaches 85 percent of the U.S. population through service partnerships. NEMF is a member of the Shevell Group of Companies, which also includes Carrier Industries (third-party logistics and dedicated fleet), Eastern Freight Ways (Northeast truckload carrier), Apex Logistics (brokerage - nationwide truckload) and NEMF World Transport (Puerto Rico).