The founder of trucking giant Erb Transport, Vernon Erb, has died in southern Ontario, he was 84.
Thunder Bay’s Gerald Erb runs the Erb Transport outlet in the city and says Vernon is a man everyone wanted to know.
“His goal in life was to treat people with respect and if you do that you get respect back and he had nothing but respect from all his employees,” said Gerald Erb.
Vernon Erb started the company with a single dump truck in 1959 in the Kitchener-Waterloo area and it grew into one of Canada’s biggest trucking companies.
Gerald says “when it first started off Mr. Erb had no intention of the company growing as big as it had. His goal in life was to have about 15 trucks but it just kept expanding.”
Vernon was diagnosed with leukemia in early April and was at home being cared for by his family.
