This week on Overdrive Radio, I'm happy to reintroduce June’s Trucker of the Month, Debbie Desiderato, with parts of her conversation with our own Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole. Cole’s story about Desiderato’s long trucking career is live as of last week, and in the podcast we’ll hear parts of that in Desiderato’s own words. She’s built considerable value with the do-it-yourself approach to business throughout her well more than two decades as an independent owner-operator.
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Active with the Make-a-Wish foundation’s Mother’s Day convoy events, the Real Women in Trucking advocacy group and other organizations, too, she’s made a name for herself as being not afraid to tell it like it is -- nor to give back in the form of advice for those coming up. She readily shares tools and business processes she’s built for herself through the years with others as a familiar face at truck shows around the nation, online and elsewhere.
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Her designation as Trucker of the Month for June, though, is as much a testament to her perseverance through the tumult of the last two decades as an independent with authority -- she attributes a lot of her success to that do-it-yourself spirit, particularly in the mechanical realm.
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Hear all Overdrive Radio podcast installments with this year's Trucker of the Year contenders via the playlist below.
