Who is Louis Saia?

Saia’s father Louis Saia Sr. founded the freight business in 1924. As a grocery-store owner in Houma, he’d travel to New Orleans several times a week to pick up produce, and his customers began asking and paying him to take packages to the Crescent City.

When did Saia start?

Saia began in 1924 in Houma, Louisiana by Louis Saia Sr. Louis was a produce dealer who realized that there was more success in delivering produce rather than selling it. The first Saia truck was his car with the rear seats removed. By 1970, Saia expanded and established terminals in Texas and Louisiana.

How old was Louis Saia when he started trucking?

He was 79. Saia’s story cannot be told without also mentioning his family’s trucking business, which started in Houma and expanded throughout the state and country through the 1980s, under the direction of Louis Jr. and his two brothers, Vincent and John. Saia’s father Louis Saia Sr. founded the freight business in 1924.