Bulkloads Podcast

BLP:377 He Started With a Desk, a Chair, and a Seven Line Phone

From one desk, one chair, and a seven line phone in 1995 to a trucking, brokerage and transloading operation three decades later. Shannon Himango joins us to walk through

BLP:376 Nobody Knows How Much Is in the Pile. These Two Fixed That.

Watch on YouTube Nobody really knows how much grain is in the pile. Rebulk is a Kansas City startup using LiDAR and a mobile app to scan bulk commodity piles and retur

BLP:375 From Finance Guy to Trucking CEO

Watch on YouTube Frankie Wilmot didn't grow up in trucking — he married into it. A former finance guy, Frankie became CEO of Corcoran Transportation Group about four ye

BLP:374 From the Battlefield to the Brokerage

Watch on YouTube Ted Fyock Jr. spent six years as an Army armor officer, deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division, and then built a career in consulting before

BLP:373 They Sold the Company to Their Employees. Now they're Millionaires.

Watch on YouTube Emery Sapp & Sons is 100% employee owned, 3,000 employee owners strong, with 98 millionaires and about 600 trucks on the road every day. Jared Flinn s

BLP:372 He Bought One Dump Truck Out of High School, Now He Runs 40 Trucks Across Kansas

Watch on YouTube  Jesse Knight bought a four-axle dump truck the fall after he graduated high school in 1992, because there wasn't enough family farm ground left for a

BLP 371: His Dad's Dying Words: "You're Not Welcome At Page" | So He Earned It Back

On his deathbed, Keith Titus told his son: "You're not welcome at Page. I have a plan, and you're not part of it." Three years later, the plan had failed. The company w

BLP 370: Rolling Coal, an $18M Fine, and Redemption: The PDI Story

They fined him $18 million. He built a diesel empire anyway. Jerad Wittwer grew up the son of a St. George milkman and rancher, overhauled his first engine at 13, and tur

BLP 369: 1 Gas Station to 1,400 Employees: How Wallis Built a Fuel Empire

Bill Wallis went to work at 13 to help his family. He served in the 101st Airborne, came home, and bought a single gas station in Cuba, Missouri in 1968. Today Wallis Com

BLP 368: We Doubled Our Trucking Company, Then 2025 Hit

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qF-YbIEGZJM Rob and Kate have been together since high school. Years ago they took over the family farm and trucking operation, doubl

BLP 367: The $1 Million Bet That Built a Trucking Dynasty

Tom Keller spec'd his first truck at 20 years old to haul watermelons off his family's farm. He'd drive a load to Indianapolis, not like the price, keep driving to Detroi

BLP 366: $10,000 to Replace a $300 Part? The Dealership Trap Explained

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vMtf0ZtSbbA   Fleet maintenance isn't sexy — but it's one of the highest expenses in trucking, the most controllable,

BLP 365: For This Business, Success isn't Measured in Trucks

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OUVacbL2k7g   For Matt and Sharon Kill, the goal was never to have the biggest fleet. But it took growing to 21 trucks

BLP 364: Why This 31-Year-Old Says Fancy Trucks Are Killing Owner-Operators

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n2-i0RKCoWs Craig Broerman left a corporate mechanical engineering career, sold the money meant for his grandparents' farm, and bough

BLP 363: The $500K Lesson: Inside Blackwell Trucking's Pivot to Hopper Freight

Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnLyii6krVg   What does it take to run a four-generation family business through cotton, cattle, pipeline restoration, AND a 7-t

BLP 362: From a Coin Flip to 750 Trucks: Inside the 75-Year Wayne Transports Empire

Check this episode out on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/hc33VvhAS_I   In 1950, a teenager who'd dropped out of school to save the family farm bought one truck and sta

The Heavy Haul Operator Riding the AI Data Center Wave

Watch episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QILNrGk8Sfs He started with one truck at 18 years old — and went bankrupt within a year. Most people would have quit. Kendal

BLP 361: She Never Planned to Run It — Now She Leads 140 Trucks | Julie Andrich of Autumn Transport

Watch the YouTube Video Here: https://youtu.be/t4i4jJeppwM Julie Andrich didn't grow up planning to run a trucking company. But when her father — a city kid who taught

BLP 360: How One Truck Puts $50,000 in Your Pocket Every Year

Check out the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ow6f_ZQ813I   Eric Glidewell, owner of JP Transport, sits down to share the real story behind building a 45-truck

BLP 359: The Most Valuable 30 Minutes for Running a Trucking Company

Watch the video on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/Iv9GTvypqdc 109,000 new trucking companies entered the market in 12 months.  That's 300 new competitors per day. So