Logistics money, explained by operators.
Truck N' Hustle follows people building businesses around the movement of goods. Conversations turn FedEx routes, pallet brokering, refrigeration trailer rentals, box trucks, port work, and truck parking into practical stories about risk, numbers, and execution.
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Truck N' Hustle looks at entrepreneurship through the very concrete problem of getting goods, vehicles, drivers, cargo, and facilities where they need to be. The appeal is specificity. Conversations move from FedEx route ownership to pallet brokering, from refrigeration trailer rentals to box-truck distribution, from port expansion to truck parking. Each topic starts as a niche. By the end, it feels like a full business model. The show is strongest when a guest explains the path from first opportunity to repeatable operation: finding buyers, learning from mistakes, managing drivers, reading a profit-and-loss statement, or figuring out whether a route business is actually worth buying. Numbers matter here. So do setbacks. A young operator talks about school, work, mechanics, trucking, scams, and a first year with large revenue. A route-business conversation pauses on due diligence, margins, valuation, and red flags. A refrigeration trailer owner explains why restaurants with failing freezers need an immediate plan B. A port conversation connects cargo growth to vendor opportunities, CDL training, local hiring, and civic pride. The show also has an eye for the less glamorous mechanics of growth: cameras, insurance, compliance, workload, parking, maintenance, contracts, and the danger of confusing momentum with stability. It is conversational, but rarely vague. Questions push guests toward definitions, timelines, mistakes, and exact examples. That gives the show a grounded, workbench feel. It suits people who want to understand how transportation businesses are actually built, not just hear that they can be built. The tone is warm and energetic, with enough repetition to make complicated logistics concepts feel learnable. Its recurring belief is simple: the riches are often in the niches, but only when the operator understands the work.
Made for: For trucking operators, route buyers, brokers, small fleet owners, and entrepreneurs studying transportation niches. It also suits business-minded listeners who like plain talk about margins, mistakes, and operational discipline.
What sets it apart: Truck N' Hustle turns obscure logistics opportunities into concrete business case studies. Its edge is the combination of origin stories, real numbers, and detailed questions about how the operation actually runs.
Truck N’ Hustle is the leading podcast and platform for transportation, logistics, and supply chain professionals. Hosted by Rahmel Wattley, the show dives deep into the stories of entrepreneurs, trucking experts, and industry leaders, providing valuable insights, strategies, and inspiration. Whether you’re a trucker, small fleet owner, freight broker, or aspiring business owner, Truck N’ Hustle delivers practical knowledge to help you scale, grow, and thrive in the transportation industry. Real conversations. Real people. Real hustle. Truck N’ Hustle—where the movers and shakers of logistics share their journeys and secrets to success. #trucknhustle #trucknhustlepodcast *Disclaimer: The vie…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Truck N' Hustle makes logistics entrepreneurship concrete through candid conversations about route economics, staffing, compliance, sales, and acquisition due diligence.
Truck N' Hustle treats transportation as an operating business, with Rahmel Wattley using guest interviews to move from ambition into the mechanics beneath it.
From a $6 pallet sale to a $100,000 gross month: you'll want the missing steps.
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A grounded review of FedEx contractor growth, where startup tools matter less than compliance, cost control, and hands-on management.
FedEx contractor work is framed as a real operating business, not a quick path to easy money. The episode moves through Express, seven-day, rural and metro routes, line-haul spot work, and FedEx Custom Critical, using growth from one truck to about 245 peak-season vehicles as…
A $6 pallet sale becomes a laptop-run brokerage story built on sales, referrals, and direct industry relationships.
Truck N' Hustle traces Dex Trell Simmons' path from a $6 pallet sale out of the back of his Nitro to a month he says reached $100,000. The reviewable hook is not just the jump in scale, but the model behind it: brokering pallets, Gaylord boxes, and Super Saks by connecting…
A practical route-business review that treats due diligence as the real starting point for growth.
Buying a route business comes through as a judgment call long before it becomes a grind. Josh Gregory keeps the focus on due diligence: questioning seller numbers, reading historical financials, and understanding what a normal deal looks like across price, revenue, and margins.
A grounded look at port expansion through jobs, vendors, CDL training, and civic pride.
Port Arthur's port expansion is framed here as a practical story about land, cargo, dock capacity, and the work that can follow. The commissioner describes a project already in motion, with the port moving from two or three docks to six and aiming for 10, supported by backland…
A $6 pallet sale leads into a relationship-driven packaging brokerage story with a reported $100,000 month.
A $6 pallet sale becomes the doorway into a brokerage business built around a laptop, a phone, and a lot of follow-up. Dex Trell Simmons lays out how he connects customers with suppliers and manufacturers of pallets, Gaylord boxes, super sacks, and other post-industrial and…
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Rommel Watley hosts Truck N' Hustle at Freight Fest with Mitchell Ward and Pam Wills Ward from MW Logistics, a Dallas-based, family-held 3PL that says it has no assets and runs on technology and people.
Rahmel Wattley interviews Dex Trell Simmons, founder of Palette Connections, who shares his journey from making $6 on his first pallet deal to generating $100,000 months.
Andrew Stevens shares how he grew from zero to 30 trucks in one year through Amazon's AFP program, starting from a family newspaper delivery business.
Will Jenkins discusses his journey building and selling his freight brokerage Molo Solutions for $235 million.
Thomas Jowers, regional president of ADL Final Mile, discusses his 30-year career in automotive logistics and previews the upcoming CLDA conference in Las Vegas.
Keith Cristal and Cody Horshak discuss building a truck parking empire by focusing on driver needs and creating a brand synonymous with truck parking.
FedEx contracting comes across as work, not magic.
A $6 pallet run starts the lesson.
A young trucking entrepreneur shares his unfiltered story of starting a business, learning from mistakes, and achieving $750,000 in first-year revenue.
Anthony Durso discusses his side hustle business of renting refrigeration freezer trailers to restaurants in need of emergency food storage.
Taylor Morris shares how she built a distribution business starting with her father's box truck, delivering lottery tickets and cardboard, and now earns significant income from bread distribution.
Josh Gregory and the Truck N' Hustle team frame the Route Consultant Expo in Nashville on January 8th and 9th as a place for contractors, vendors, and new investors to learn in one weekend.
Truck N' Hustle sits down with Port Arthur commissioner Randy Martin at the AAPA annual convention, where he says Port Arthur is one of 13 ports in Texas and still only about 100 acres.
Keith Cristal and Cody Horshak discuss building a truck parking empire by focusing on driver needs and creating a brand synonymous with truck parking.