The old school style of Daseke Inc.

Feb. 6, 2015

Don Daseke relied on “old fashioned” business principles to guide his trucking operations, such as “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” “treat the company like family,” and “don’t mess with success” to build up the trucking conglomerate he founded in 2009 from $30 million in annual revenue to over $668 million per year by 2014.

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Wendy Leavitt

Wendy Leavitt is a former FleetOwner editor who wrote for the publication from 1998 to 2021. 

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