Messina Trucking, Inc. traces its beginnings to the mid-1950s when the company’s founder, Steve Messina, Sr., acquired a tandem International truck and drove on a contract basis for other trucking companies in the Metropolitan Detroit Area. With a brief respite when he was drafted in the wake of the Korean War, he returned to dedicate himself to trucking. Soon, he had developed a solid reputation and the contracts kept coming. The amount of work dramatically expanded and he was no longer able to carry all of the loads himself. As a result, in 1965 Messina Trucking, Inc. was born.