Krystal Raue, the owner of Decatur, Nebraska-based Triple R Trucking, was born and raised around trucking and worked in her parents’ hauling business from a young age doing paperwork and other jobs.
After going to college for a degree in business administration, she came back and continued to help the family business.
“As technology increased, I kind of started helping them transition into more of the technology side of things,” she said. “I was eventually managing my parents’ company, a reefer business.”
In 2012, Raue bought her first two trucks to get a feel for what it was like to own trucks and to run a business. She leased those trucks on at her parents’ company. A couple years later, “Dad was ready to retire,” she said, “so I basically ended up buying the equipment from him and put everything and everybody under my own company name and authority, and we’ve been running ever since.”
Thus Triple R Trucking was born, and again this year, after placing among 10 semi-finalists for Overdrive's 2021 Small Fleet Championship, Triple R is a contender in the 10-and-fewer-trucks categories.
This is one of 10 profiles of carrier semifinalists for Overdrive's
Revenue growth has been steady as Krystal Raue works hard to secure the best rates among brokers and other customers she works with. In service of that mission she's made a big pivot this year from what had been principally a reefer operation hauling a lot of meat outbound from Nebraska and Iowa, with produce on the return.
