Our History — 1988 to Today

Kelley started as an asset-based, certified FAR Part 135 on-demand air-charter freight carrier. After that, customers began asking for more planes than we could handle. Using the competition and other carriers came into play as backup then larger planes. Kelley then began using more air carriers an Air Charter Guide as additional capacity — becoming an air-freight charter indirect air carrier providing handling and trucks on both ends dock to dock.
To continue offering the same high level of service, Kelley began building Unix-based computerized Transportation Management Systems and blast-faxing carriers in the 90s. Between the late 90s and 2009 the first air charter Bid Board was introduced. In 2000 our president met the designer of the first Bid Board.  It was then rented to companies like the predecessor of XPO, Fedex, UPS and others.  Kelley rented it too adding more carriers to it Bid Board than all the rest combined. That renting continued on while Kelley built our own with all the same features and added others such as automated voice ringing carrier phones giving a brief description and telling them a shipment is available on our Bid Board, email blasts, giving carriers points for notifying us when aircraft aren’t available. The voice part didn’t seem to go over that well for some reason. The rented Board since then disappeared after we stopped using it along with the shrinkage of the number of aircraft and additional regulation In 2009, Kelley introduced the first expedited truck BidBoard in the industry built in mainly C# software, combined with massive email blasts for more carrier options in much less time. Companies like Mcaffee, Semantic, Google, Constant Contact and AOL said it can’t be done and we will be shut down as spam even though we are providing opportunities to carriers.  From our past we still saw a chance and went for it and figured out a way they couldn’t stop us.  We presented some ideas about our Bidboard to DAT and later to Internet truck stop and asked why don’t they build something works a bit like the features of our Bidboard and they said they don’t like the idea because it will drive down the price per mile paying carriers for its used would have to give to brokers. Now 15 or so years later it works better than ever.  In Febuary 2026 Kelley came up with we believe the first Alarm System alerting through our computer screens and phones and set GPS defaults for tracking thresholds at 45 min if  truck stops, signal gets lost, drives off route adding that much time or zero time if the driver is too slow and is getting close to not being able to make the ETA to shipper or consignee.
Today Kelley dedicates almost all resources to trucking expedites as well as air-charter freight services — operating a concentrated, effective system that positions trucks and aircraft in less time than our strongest competitors while ensuring precise deliveries.