This story was originally published on August 26, 2017, but has been updated for the 2022 hurricane season.
In 2003, I got caught in the middle of a hurricane. But it wasn’t the high winds and water that I faced, it was the surge of truckloads that my startup on-demand trucking division received.
My small but agile team of 11 made up the on-demand provider of US Xpress, known as Xpress Direct. We were set up to handle the spot on-demand capacity needs for major shippers, brokers, and airfreight...
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