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Truck N' Hustle

#146 - 38-Year-Old Grows "Courier Business" To 1,000 Deliveries Per Day & Sells It For Millions? Jason Burns Sr. - CLDA President

Truck N' Hustle

Rahmel Wattley

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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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. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

0:30.1

And I remember the sense of responsibility coming on like, oh, I got to go figure this out.

0:33.5

Right. And it was the first time, like, getting a sense of entrepreneurship, we're like, there's no blueprint for success all the time. You got to, like, figure it out. You got to hustle. You got to figure it out. You got to try things. You got to fail. You got to fail. Hopefully you can figure out to fail fast. Fail forward. Yep. I think it's important to your shareholders, your investors, et cetera. But also to your community, in our case, to show them that, you know, you don't have

0:56.0

necessarily to say to be three, four, two, three, four generations of a family business

0:59.7

to be successful. You can do this.

1:03.6

Turn my mic up for you. Take there. Yeah, yeah. on the road to the riches.

1:13.3

Life takes a toe like bridges.

1:16.0

Good friends will come foes and snitches.

1:18.4

Better watch you nose in your biz, biz, biz.

1:22.9

All right, also, fan, we are back with another amazing episode.

1:27.0

And today I'm with my man Jason Burns, Sr.

1:30.3

You don't look too much like a senior, but we'll take it.

1:34.5

El Presidency of the CDLA.

1:35.3

CLDA.

1:37.1

Man, I'm already messing up.

1:43.2

The CLDA, which is the Customized Logistics Delivery Association.

1:43.7

You got it. Customized logistics and delivery. Customized logisticsistics Delivery Association. Got it.

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