PIB TIP: REQUEST FREE CREDIT REPORTS. Maintaining

Apr 20, 2011

PIB TIP: REQUEST FREE CREDIT REPORTS. Maintaining a high credit rating will be easier if you keep up with what it is. Federal law now requires each of the three major credit reporting companies to send you a free copy of your credit report, on request, once a year. Visit annualcreditreport.com. The Partners in Business program is produced by Overdrive and the consultants at ATBS, the nation’s largest owner-operator business services firm, and is sponsored by Schneider National Inc. and Freightliner Trucks.

MRL Transport owner Mark Ledford today hauls direct freight outbound for customers in part built from his years of ownership of another fleet, since sold after years of growth. MRL in some ways is Ledford's effort to right-size a business for his life today.

Right-sizing for management: MRL Transport owner Mark Ledford hits five trucks

Ledford got his start trucking after working a dock where his manager said Ledford would never drive truck. Not only would he drive, he'd grow a fleet well beyond 30 trucks before selling out. MRL Transport is his second turn in the barrel, and Ledford's hit a profitability sweet spot.

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