On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Ed Burns, CEO of Burns Logistics, sat down with Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach and Project 61, to discuss the importance of building relationships and being a connector in the trucking industry in order to help solve problems.
Burns was raised with family in the trucking industry. His father was a salesman at a freight company and would often bring the children along with him on sales calls. “We’d go to manufacturers, we’d go to lunches, we’d go to entertainment events, and we got to know the people our dad knew from a very young age,” Burns said. “He’d become friends with these people, and we’d become friends with their kids, so we as a family built long-lasting relationships throughout the industry that way.”
When his children were young, Burns Sr. would bring a truck to school every year to educate students about the trucking industry. “He would talk about …