Our history

In the decade of the forties and a few years after starting the hydraulic works, the border strip reached first place in the production of cotton, boosting its cultivation to a large extent due to the great demand required in North American industry, as a result of the Second World War. This stage was known as the Golden Age of Cotton in the region and gave Reynosa an extraordinary boom, producing a considerable economic outpouring.

Mr. Leonardo Varela Meléndez entered the union of truck drivers belonging to the SCT, thus dedicating himself to cargo transportation, in which Reynosa's cotton bales were transported to the port of Brownsville. At that time the drilling of oil wells was also developed, as it was one of the main activities carried out in Reynosa. The union got the job to haul the drilling pipe to these wells, which is how it began transporting and moving equipment to Coatzacoalcos and to different areas of Veracruz.

There was a high unemployment rate in the border region. In order to counteract this problem, the federal government designs the Border Industrialization Program that begins the establishment of maquiladora plants. Mr. Leonardo Varela Meléndez had to look for new options in the market to continue consolidating within the Transport industry. Because the attempts to regulate transport through concessions had not yielded the expected result, especially for the imposition of amparos, it was determined to carry out the regularization of the motor transport constituting public limited companies. This introduced the business structure of freight transport.

Mr. Leonardo Varela Meléndez together with 12 other partners formed the company Autotransportes of Carga del Norte from Reynosa SA from CV, in order to start the new era of transport regularization in Mexico, where the routes were assigned to the carriers to each company through transport committees and cargo service plants were formed in different states of the Mexican Republic. Likewise, the need to strengthen the representation of the sector to bring a common front to state policy, resulted in the regrouping in the National Chamber of Transportation and Communications.

Mr. Leonardo Varela Reséndez is called by his father Mr. Leonardo Varela Meléndez to enter the family business, who leaves the construction industry to engage in transport. Unfortunately, a year later, Mr. Leonardo Varela Meléndez dies, leaving Ing. Leonardo Varela Reséndez to head the company, which he founded and sustained for more than 20 years.

A new presidential six-year period begins and with it the insertion of our country into the era of globalization. With the government of Mr. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the machinery of the State is started to deregulate and liberalize all productive activities; Disincorporate State enterprises that for many years were considered strategic and radically transform the structures of corporate organizations. One of the first sectors that got involved in this process was the auto transport. With the deregulation the obligation to belong to the cargo exchanges disappeared; the structure of regular services by route and the one specialized by product also disappeared; the imposition of tariffs, so that thereafter they are freely set by supply and demand.

Engineer Leonardo Varela Reséndez is registered as a natural person, opening the doors to the company Varela Davila Autotransportes. At that time it started with 7 trucks, 1 van, 8 operators and 4 administrative employees.

The purchase of the first new trucks begins with the intention of modernizing all the units and having a fleet with no more than 10 years old, which until today remains one of the policies of our company.

The corporate name of the Company is changed by forming a company under the name of Autotransportes Varela Dávila S.A. from C.V. ceasing to be a natural person and giving way to a new generation, more strengthened, full of challenges and growth opportunities.