Keep Trucking with small fleet owner Mike Nelms, integrating biz education into operations

With today's edition of Overdrive Radio we’re going to drop into conversation with a man who’s been making a name for himself around the Atlanta-area trucking community the last decade or so while building a small fleet -- Mike Nelms, owner of Keep Trucking Transportation. The 20-or-so-truck fleet pulls reefers and dry vans with a mix of brokered and direct business, made up mostly of owners leased on, including many owner-operators. Nelms has just a few trucks of his own.

Nelms' instincts for raising up those around him with an interest in the trucking business led him to incorporate distinctly educational efforts directly into operations. All employed there approach relationships with contracted owners with an educational mission in mind, hoping to set up all owners for future success as they remain leased on or, eventually, go out on their own with authority.

Limited quantities left! | Overdrive Radio sponsor And last year Nelms debuted an event in Atlanta to connect owner-operators and others with newer trucking businesses with potential funding sources, whether truck loans or other needed lending, in the form of a mixer on a downtown rooftop. The second such event is coming up March 4, 2023, on top of the Ascent building, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. There’s more to it than just funding, ultimately, too -- a chance to network with stakeholders in trucking with a wide range of experience. Hear all about Nelms' now-almost-decade-long journey into and through trucking in the podcast. 

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Keep Trucking-leased owner Carolina Correa brings a unique spin to truck ownership not as a owner-operator, but as a one-truck, multi-rental-trailer business investor.Courtesy of Carolina Correa