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After HJI's founders sold off a large minority-owned transportation company, Conrad Daniels was left with one warehouse and one customer. He rebuilt it into a seven-facility 3PL by focusing on value-add services most operators never think about.
After three years running a small Amazon Relay fleet, Christina Lim shut it down to launch OTR Drive School. She breaks down the real startup costs of a CDL school, why she trains her own instructors, and the operator lesson behind 'learn on somebody else's dime.'
Fired the week after his son was born, Chip Cox rented a box truck and started hauling flowers farm-to-farm up the California coast. Floral Trade Distributors now runs 15 trucks locally plus cross-country reefers — and Cox's biggest lesson is that chasing gross revenue almost killed him.
Brock Phillips spent nearly a decade running local freight out of Maryland, riding a peak he estimated near $80K a month before the market cut him down to roughly $20K. Here's how he downsized, kept his direct customers, and rebuilt around owner-operators, a box truck, and the CDL in his back pocket.
After a career-ending injury crushed his pro soccer dreams, Anthony Gomez went all-in on logistics during the pandemic. Today his New Jersey warehouse specializes in high-value pharmaceutical cross-docking — built entirely on word of mouth and relationships.
Anthony Durso spotted a niche almost nobody talks about: businesses that lose their cold storage and need a replacement within hours. He turned 16-foot refrigeration trailers into a growing rental fleet — and used friendly competitors to build a book of business before he had capacity.
Route Consultant built a brokerage and services business around FedEx Ground contractors. Now CEO Anna Lee Kate is moving into bread routes — same step vans, same driver pool, but with one big difference: you can actually sell to grow revenue.
Slicker Trucking started with a single $20,000 FedEx Ground route. Two decades later it runs P&D, line haul, and custom critical with a peak headcount Amy puts around 245. Here's the operator playbook behind the growth — including the partnership that nearly sank them.
Most operators hunt freight by refreshing a load board and taking what’s posted. Jared Flinn — who coordinated grain freight at a major trader before founding Bulk Loads — argues the highest-paying freight is the freight you go find. Here’s the playbook.
Bread routes are recurring, essential, and structurally similar to FedEx routes — but they trade quieter and cheaper. Route Consultant CEO Anna Lee Kate breaks down the unit economics and the one feature that makes bread different from FedEx: you can actually grow the revenue.