Our DNA
Improving Lives One Critical Shipment at a Time
Our customers do serious work and we take their trust seriously. They depend on us to deliver with precision and consistency. It’s a responsibility we’re honored to have.
We Are Specialists in Urgency
We’re built for the jobs that can’t fail. Whether it’s compliance-driven medical logistics or high-risk, time-sensitive shipments, we don’t just navigate complexity—we own it. Our people are smart, creative problem-solvers, focused on continuous improvement.
Our Values & Guiding Principles
Our mission: improving lives one shipment at a time. That takes teamwork, decisiveness, open communication, and readiness to act now.
- Be Ready: Act now.
- Teamwork: We’ve got this.
- Open Communication: Say it like it is.
- Determined: Crush the obstacles.
- Integrity: Trust is everything.
- Respect: Respect everyone. Period.
- Ownership: Own it.
Our History
American Expediting was founded in Philadelphia by Victor Finnegan, a University of Pennsylvania business student, as a one-person, same-day courier operation in 1983. Within a year his business was racing past competitors, and by 1988 was one of Philadelphia’s leading time-critical delivery organizations. Many of our people have been with us from the beginning, building the company into a premier national provider of specialty transport, logistics, storage and distribution solutions with a hard-earned reputation for excellence.
