I fell in love with trucks when I was 4 years old.
My Dad was a truck driver and we lived across the street from a construction company.
On some afternoons in the summer, I would sit on the curb in front of my parent’s house, watching the guys return to the yard in their dump trucks and lowboys. I loved being around the power, the noise, the dust and smell of diesel exhaust.
Fast forward 16 years and I was driving a roll off truck like this one for a trash company in Philadelphia as a summer job. (Read about my first time getting the keys to drive a big rig through New Jersey)
It was like being in heaven, so I decided to make a career out of trash.
That didn’t work out, but I stuck with the waste business and have since helped start, grow, lead and sell 2 large industrial waste businesses.
Along the way, I developed what I call an Owner Shift mentality that has served me well. I had to go down a few wrong roads – ending up deep in the Valley of Uncertainty at one point – before I ended up on the right one.
What started for you as a little kid? What have you done about it?
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