Business View Magazine | September 2019

70 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 a job. B.B. worked for us for 10 months, welding by day, playing the blues here in Memphis at night. Bukka stayed with us the rest of his career,” Fischer recounts. Jimmy Newberry simultaneously rose to prominence within the petroleum storage industry. In 1951, he became a founding member of the Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI), a trade association whose 1,600-plus members in all 50 states and more than 80 countries manufacture, distribute, and service petroleum marketers and liquid handling equipment used in service stations, terminals, bulk plants, fuel, oil and gasoline delivery, and similar petroleum marketing operations. Upon Newberry’s retirement, the company was acquired by Hamilton Tanks of Columbus, Ohio, and continued to grow its reputation for providing quality products and services. Over the years, Newberry Tanks has worked with organizations such as the PEI, the STI (Steel Tank Institute), the SPFA (Steel Plate Fabricators Association), the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association), the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), and Underwriters Laboratories, and has been instrumental in developing many of the products and standards serving the industry, today. In early 2011, the company transitioned to its third ownership group with Chris Long, and in Logistics Done Logically! directconnecttransport.com 855-266-6323 7161 55TH STREET NORTH ST PAUL, MN 55128 Truck Freight Services • LTL Freight Services • Heavy Haul Services • Rail Freight A multi-faceted firm that oversees the transportation of customer commodities and equipment throughout the U.S. and Canada. pictured below VP of Sales, James Fischer