On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, is joined by Amber Edmonson, president and CEO of Trailiner Corp.
Edmonson is an industry veteran of nearly 25 years, having been with Trailiner since 1999.
But Edmonson’s connection to trucking runs deeper than just her years of employment: Her father became an owner-operator when she was 8, and Trailiner itself was started by Edmonson’s grandfather in 1976.
Trailiner, a long-haul refrigerated carrier from Springfield, Missouri, is hardly a stranger to the ups and downs of market cycles.
Given the company’s exposure to produce, particularly from the western U.S., something as simple as a rainstorm can influence financials for an entire year.
“This year there was too much rain in California, which really impacted the…