‘Lead & Feathers’ TNT Amazing And True!

How one man and his truck grew into the world’s largest diversified transport company.

From one man’s postwar purchase of a single truck to the rise of a global transport empire, Lead & Feathers: TNT Amazing and True! tells the extraordinary story of Thomas Nationwide Transport (TNT). Visionary founder Ken Thomas, alongside pioneering executives and bold innovations, transformed an ambitious start-up into the world’s largest diversified logistics company. Through setbacks, breakthroughs, and relentless expansion across land, sea, and air, TNT became a model of resilience and ingenuity. Drawing on exclusive interviews and decades of research, Harold Stuart Abrahams delivers the definitive history of a company that reshaped modern freight worldwide.