Veterans Day falls tomorrow, the eleventh of November.

Trucking has always drawn people who have served, and it is not hard to see why. The work rewards discipline and planning. It means being responsible for an expensive piece of equipment and for everybody around it. It suits people who are used to being trusted with something that matters and getting on with it without anyone standing over them.

From service to ownership

A fair number of the owner-operators in our network came to hauling after the military. Several of them run their own trucks now. That is a particular kind of step, going from serving inside a structure to building something of your own.

It is not an automatic one. Buying a truck means taking on a payment, an insurance policy, maintenance you cannot put off, and the discipline to keep the paperwork straight. The people who make it work tend to be the ones who already knew that the boring parts are the job.

What we can do is make sure the work is there, the dispatch is straight, and the money lands when we said it would. For somebody building a business after service, that is most of what matters.

Tunnel to Towers

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is best known for the stair climbs in September, but a large part of what it does is for veterans. That includes mortgage-free homes for service members who were catastrophically injured, and for the families of those who did not come back.

We have written about the foundation before. It is worth mentioning today rather than only in September. You can read about its work at t2t.org.

If you have served

If you are a veteran with a CDL, or you are thinking about the owner-operator route, we are worth a conversation. We will not make promises about what you will earn. That depends on the truck, the market, and how you run the business. What we can tell you is what the work actually looks like, what the network expects, and whether it is a fit.

Call (844) 258-7825 and ask for dispatch, or use the hauler application on the site.

Tomorrow

To everyone who served, and to the families who carried the weight of it at home: thank you. From a Florida company that has been family-run since 1980 and knows something about people depending on you to turn up.