#241 - OVER $1MILLION IN TRUCKING! Cellmates to CEO’s: How 2 Ex-Felons Built Their Businesses! - Dave Stuvaints & Kamau Gant

Truck N' Hustle

Rahmel Wattley

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 173 minutes

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0:00.0	That's where Kamau and that, man.
0:02.0	That's where it started.
0:03.0	Yeah, that's where it started.
0:04.0	You know what I mean?
0:05.0	So, you know, prison yard the truck yard.
0:06.0	If you can live in there and work for 17 cents an hour, 33 cent a hire,
0:09.0	anybody can come out and get a job anywhere.
0:11.0	That's a fact.
0:12.0	Or they could be on the truck.
0:13.0	That too.
0:14.0	And out in trucking, the people that control the money, they got power. We are ignorant to a lot of things that we don't know for lack of knowledge. That was one of
0:21.1	the first people who showed us, I'm going to take advantage of you not knowing. We're not playing
0:26.4	no games. Y'all want to be laxadaisical. Y'all don't want to work that hard. The stuff y'all not willing
0:31.0	to do, we're going to do it. It was like baseball. Every time somebody comes to the place, you don't hit a home run. It's about small steps, great distances.
0:39.3	Cats in the game don't know what their cost per mile is.
0:41.3	You need to know what you can operate your truck at.
0:43.3	Once we found out what we can operate our trucks at, we know what we can't do.
0:46.3	So it was, that was the limit from there.
0:48.3	Plan, be strategic, and just go out there and fight for your dream
0:53.3	or whatever vision that you have,
0:55.5	you can make that happen.
0:56.7	Hey, guys, just want to take a quick moment to thank our sponsors and our longtime partners,
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