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It is most likely that you will never have heard of XPO Logistics. That is because it is a very young company led by a man who has very little experience in freight, but a lot of experience in building up successful businesses.

The Loadstar first read of Bradley Jacobs a few months ago, after he, and a group of minority investors under the aegis of Jacobs Private Equity, raised $150m in cash and ploughed it into Express-1, a US firm ...