For This Business, Success isn't Measured in Trucks

For Matt and Sharon Kill, the goal was never to have the biggest fleet. But it took growing to 21 trucks — and nearly losing what mattered — to figure that out. The family started with nothing: one truck, a borrowed belt trailer, and a 1950s pay loader that lost steering every time you let off the throttle. After Matt got let go from John Deere, they accidentally built a four-way ag operation — trucking, manure spreading, farming, and feed commodity trading out of Saint Mary's, Ohio. 🎙️ Brought to you by BulkLoads — the bulk freight marketplace built for carriers, brokers, and shippers. Matt and Sharon have been members since the very beginning. Find loads, grow your operation, and connect with the bulk trucking community at https://bulkloads.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Meeting the Kill family 01:00 From John Deere to a borrowed belt trailer: how it started 04:10 Four businesses under one roof 04:32 The roller coaster: scaling from 8 to 21 trucks 06:42 Inside Ohio's massive ag country 07:08 The poultry litter business explained 09:20 "We started from nothing" — the old equipment days 11:07 Buying totaled belt trailers for pennies 11:49 The hardest part of the job 13:15 "Maybe we should just give this up" 15:31 Matt's learning disabilities and building it anyway 16:26 Who runs what: the team behind the operation 18:27 Where the business goes from here 20:25 Why no two farming operations are the same 22:28 Best advice for someone starting in trucking 26:33 Building it together from day one 28:42 What they pull from the BulkLoads podcast 29:13 Thank you ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 SUBSCRIBE for more real stories from the people who move America's bulk freight. #Trucking #OwnerOperator #BulkFreight