#125 - After 5 Years In Prison, New York Transportation Entrepreneur Builds 45 Vehicle Fleet! - Trent Griffin-Braaf | #1 The Trucking Podcast

Truck N' Hustle

Rahmel Wattley

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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#trucknhustle #trucknhustlepodcast Join us this fall at Freight Fest, Trucking Conference Of The Year brought to you by Truck N’ Hustle November 4th-6th Houston TX! Special Offer https://freightfest.com Special thanks to our sponsors for collaborating with us for the FreightFest 2022. You check our Sponsors on the link below, https://linktr.ee/trucknhustlepodcast Guest Info Trent Griffin-Braaf https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentgb Tech Valley Shuttle - https://instagram.com/techvalleyshuttle?utm_medium=copy_link Trent Griffin-Braaf is the CEO of GB Logistics which specializes in last mile delivery services and Tech Valley Shuttle which specializes in poverty reduction transportation services. As a young adult Trent was sentenced to 4-12 years. However, while incarcerated he enrolled at Marist college, and used that as inspiration to become a “forever learner.” He went from janitor to general manager within Marriott. During that 5 year stretch he had a lot of success within the hospitality industry. He leveraged that success and started Tech Valley Shuttle and hasn’t taken his foot off the gas since. Trent went from "FELON TO FORBES" and now has over 45 vehicles in the fleet and nearly 100 employees. Awards/Publications: • Forbes “Next 1000” Honoree • Albany Business Review “40 under 40” Honoree • Bloomberg Businessweek • New York Times • Business Review • Forbes • Bloomberg Radio

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? This is Ramel Watley and welcome to Truck and Hustle, the podcast for trucking entrepreneurs.
0:07.0	If you want to learn about the trucking industry from the business side of things, you're in the right place.
0:12.0	Every week, I interview the people who are making it happen on a daily basis.
0:17.0	I get them to share their successes, their failures, and sometimes even their secrets.
0:21.7	The goal is to show you how you two can create financial freedom in the booming trucking
0:25.9	industry.
0:26.7	So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
0:29.8	And that's all you kept hearing, Trent, Trent, Trent, Tech Valley Shuttle and just a blessing, man.
0:34.3	Who's to say, like, a service that we do today won't change a kid's
0:39.9	life. Like, if we could skip a kid by our transportation, if we could get a kid to a charter
0:44.3	school or a private school and that kid doesn't have to go through the prison and experiences
0:48.7	I did, that's more impactful.
0:51.8	Turn my mic up. Who are you?
0:54.5	Take this.
0:55.9	Yeah.
0:57.1	On the road to the riches.
0:59.7	Life takes a toe like bridges.
1:02.1	Good friends will come foes and snitches.
1:04.5	Better watch you nose in your biz, biz, biz.
1:08.1	All right.
1:08.7	Let's get it, y'all.
1:09.5	Let's get it.
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