We hauled it before we brokered it.
Three generations of Polos, trucking in the Columbia Basin since 1967, and a rule that has not changed since the first truck: when your yes is a yes and your no is a no, people keep calling.
From a potato truck in Othello to 48 states.
The Garza family has been in trucking since 1967, when Hipolito "Polo" Garza bought his first truck in Othello, Washington, and hauled agricultural products out of the Columbia Basin. His son, Polo Garza Jr., earned his CDL in 1981, drove for years, and founded Oasis Farms & Trucking in 1995. He ran flatbed loads of potatoes, onions, and wheat out of the Columbia Basin, then drywall, steel, lumber, and roofing for builders across the Northwest. Over those years the company moved roughly 100,000 loads and 35 million miles.
In 2017 the next generation wrote the plan that turned Oasis into a brokerage. The trucks were sold, the carrier network was built, and in the first year the company went from about 40 loads a week to 150. Today Oasis Freight Transport moves 100+ loads a day across all 48 states and Canada, working with hundreds of shippers and thousands of vetted carriers from our office in Kennewick.
We are still a trucking company. Our ownership owns trucks and trailers to this day, operated under Oasis Trucking, which makes Oasis an asset-based brokerage: we have our own iron for the loads that need it, we know what a load really costs to run, and the owners still answer the phone.
Founder Polo Garza Jr., CEO Polo Garza III, and the next generation.
Since 1967, three generations, one trade.
- 1967Hipolito "Polo" Garza buys and operates his first truck in Othello, Washington, hauling agricultural products. The family has been in trucking ever since.
- 1981His son, Polo Garza Jr., earns his CDL and starts driving.
- 1995Polo Garza Jr. founds Oasis Farms & Trucking in Othello and builds his own fleet: flatbed freight for farms and builders across the Northwest.
- 2017Oasis Freight Transport is incorporated. The third generation writes the plan to become a brokerage, and first-year sales grow tenfold as the carrier network is built.
- 2018The company moves to Kennewick and passes 1,000 carriers. Oasis Trucking keeps a small fleet on the road to this day.
- 2025New headquarters at 8202 W. Quinault Ave. Coverage across 48 states and Canada, with 100+ loads a day.
The people who answer for your freight
Polo Garza Jr.Founder
Polo Garza IIICEO
Austin OltmanChief Administration OfficerPart of every load goes somewhere that matters.
Oasis is a family company, and the family has always given. We support organizations in the Tri-Cities and beyond that feed people, protect kids, and put instruments in the hands of children who would not otherwise have them. Half our team has served on a mission trip to Sonora, Mexico.
Work with a company that still answers the phone.
509-760-7287 · 8202 W. Quinault Ave., Suite D, Kennewick, WA 99336