March 5, 2021 By Shelley Byrne
Forty-four years after its founding, Midwest Tankermen Inc. is moving into its second generation of family owners.
Gail Loughlin founded the Lockport, Ill.-based company, which provides inland barge cargo transfers and dock operating services, in 1977.
At the time, she said, she was writing barge numbers on a steno pad from her kitchen table and answering her landline phone at all hours of the day and night.
“The first seven years, I was on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” she said.
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