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From 2 Trucks to 60: This Bulk Trucking Company is Buying Out The Competition — BulkLoads Podcast Episode

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From 2 Trucks to 60: This Bulk Trucking Company is Buying Out The Competition

Released
Feb 23, 2024
Runtime
Host
Jared Flinn
Series
Weekly · since 2019

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What you’ll hear

In this episode of the BulkLoads Podcast, Jared Flinn sits down with Michael Tilmon of Tillmon Brothers Logistics, a Southeast Missouri-based trucking company that has gone from just 2 trucks to over 60 in operation. Michael shares the inspiring story of how his family-run business grew through smart acquisitions, relationship building, and strategic use of tools like BulkLoads and Smart Freight Funding.

Discover how Michael balances the roles of dispatcher, broker, and owner while maintaining strong family values—including fostering four boys with his wife. This episode is packed with insights on expanding your trucking operation, managing growth with integrity, and how faith and resilience can shape the future of your business.

Want to learn how to scale your own trucking company or what it takes to successfully integrate acquisitions? This episode is for you.

Jared Flinn — host of the BulkLoads Podcast

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Jared Flinn — Founder, BulkLoads

Twenty years of bulk-freight operating experience. Jared sits down weekly with the carriers, brokers, and shippers who actually move the freight — not the pundits who write about it. New episode every Monday.

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In this episode of the BulkLoads Podcast, Jared Flinn sits down with Michael Tilmon of Tillmon Brothers Logistics, a Southeast Missouri-based trucking company that has gone from just 2 trucks to over 60 in operation. Michael shares the inspiring story of how his family-run business grew through smart acquisitions, relationship building,…

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