Employee ownership plan ensures that a Peterbilt fleet carries on
6 l FIRST CLASS
Volunteer Pride
VOLUNTEER EXPRESS
W
hen J.B. Baker, owner,
president and CEO of
Nashville based LTL spe-
cialist Volunteer Express,
decided in 2011 that the time was right for
the next and final steps in his succession
plan, the script looked pretty familiar.
No one would have been sur-
prised if the end result was anoth-
er tale of consolidation in the
trucking industry, even if such
a deal could mean Volunteer's
long standing motto — "Large