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🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | So from the Washington metropolitan area, I grew up here all the way through. |
0:06.4 | I went to high school here in Washington, D.C., really fortunate to go to an incredible school here. |
0:11.8 | Going out school, changed the trajectory in my whole life, was a student athlete, then I went |
0:16.7 | to Eastern Michigan University, played football there, had a great experience, you know, |
0:21.2 | lost a lot of games, you know, lost a whole lot of games. But at the end of the day, |
0:25.2 | you know, a lot of that learning helps me today. After that, hopped around in the NFL on some |
0:29.9 | short tryouts, not for long NFL. And then after that, you know, hop right into the family |
0:34.6 | business, right? You know, one of the things that's pretty unique is, you know, we are a family-owned by our family. And when you kind of get into |
0:42.5 | this space, most time people have a lot of investors and a whole bunch of different things. But, |
0:46.3 | you know, my father and I are the sole owners of this organization. Okay. Talk about the origin |
0:51.2 | story of this business a little bit. Get into that. |
0:54.4 | So 1968 District International was here right where we're sitting. So in 1968, this started. |
1:00.6 | We purchased this in 2004. 2004, we'd be doing about $30 million of a business. Just in 2020, we did over $110 million in business. |
1:10.6 | Okay. |
1:11.6 | So we have tripled the size of our business and our organization. |
1:13.6 | We've grown. |
1:14.6 | We used to have one store. |
1:16.6 | Now we have four stores in the Washington metropolitan area. |
1:19.6 | And we are just full service. |
1:21.6 | Everything trucking needs to be handled from leasing, selling, use trucks, service, parts, |
1:26.6 | anything you need for your trucks |
1:28.5 | and school buses. Okay. So in 2004, you got started. You said District International was here, |
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