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Overdrive
| July 2014
How one small fl eet operator got stuck in 'safety jail' as
bad ratings and violations compounded and business
vanished – and how he clawed his way out.
BY TODD DILLS
S
mall fl eet operator Mark
White of Hartsville, Tenn.,
has been involved in the
family business, Old Time
Express, since his father
founded it in the mid-1990s.
Bo White "almost went broke the fi rst
month," Mark White says of his father.
Today, however, the company uses
about 25 company-driven and own-
er-operator trucks. "It's been the sheer
grace of God that we got this far."
That growth came slowly, in keeping
with Bo White's philosophy of doing
business in a time-honored way.
Traditional approaches to trucking
have been changing, though, since the
advent of the Federal Motor Carrier
Trapped in a
CSA nightmare
For Part 1 of a two-part extended video interview series with Mark White of Old Time
Express about the carrier's efforts to get out from under a Conditional rating handed
down in 2012, scan the QR or search "Old Time Express" on OverdriveOnline.com.
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