The trucks come with air ride suspension, high back seats, and cruise control. All told, the company owns 115 Petes, which are traded in every three years. Although TCW does its own preventative maintenance on equipment, most work is covered by warranty. The tractors are lubed every 7,500 miles and fully serviced every 15,000 miles. This means two drivers are in a truck at all times and the equipment keeps moving.
Night runs are part of the operation, and some part-time crews work weekends.
T CW was chartered as Tennessee Tobacco Warehouse in 1948. Howard F. and Mary George were the stockholders of the company, founded to warehouse and distribute tobacco products for R. J. Reynolds. A few months later, Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co. began using the warehouse facilities. By 1950, a power conveyor system was built in the shipping department for pulling orders and loading trucks. Tennessee Tobacco Warehouse claimed to be the first commercial warehouse to use such a system.