Brittany Traylor said she didn't need much capital to start her own trucking company in 2021. Through brokerage and dispatching, her business generated $1.4 million in revenue last year. She revealed ...

After 20 years of incarceration, Milwaukee-based entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Ed Hennings, knew that he wanted to own his own business. After being released, he started his own barbershop ...

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WASHINGTON — In the midst of the Covid pandemic, with consumers buying up goods for their lockdown lifestyles and supply chains snarled, Arnesha Barron saw a moment to make her dream of starting her ...

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Despite the lackluster freight markets of the last few years, motivated owner-operators new to small business trucking are finding ways not just to survive, but to thrive. From practical planning and ...

Almost 14 years ago, I left the corporate world to start my own recruitment company that serves the trucking industry. I was a recruiter in a different industry before I launched my recruitment ...

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The retirement readiness of Americans is bleak. A 2015 Federal Reserve Report found that 31% of non-retirees have little to no retirement savings. In that same report, half of all non-retirees were ...

In the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the charmingly larcenous Paul Newman wonders aloud on several occasions about the Union Pacific Railroad’s expert posse whose relentless pursuit of the ...

An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link It was never Brittany Traylor's dream to become a truck driver, but after seeing her uncle do it, she took classes and became a ...