Back to Business Podcast with Sarah Annas featuring John Elliott: Building a Trucking Business

I was very lucky and thankful to be a vice president of the American Trucking Association for many, many years.

And then I was the national chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association, which was probably...

About the greatest honor, I guess, on our business that you could really have for in a position.

So it really it got it gave me an opportunity to get back, get back to the industry through charities, you know, deal with a lot of Capitol Hill politicking and swaying.

And, you know, I got the privilege to go to the White House before to testify in front of Congress in that role.

Very

cool.

Yeah.

And, you know, a number of times on national news.

And that they would interview me for different things.

So, you know, some people would think it's great.

Some people would be like, why would you want to do that? Which, yeah.

But you loved it.

Yeah, I did.

I did.

It was it was it was great.

I mean, don't get me wrong.

It was it created a number of years that were relentless 24-7 planes life.

Yeah.

You

know, it didn't it didn't bode well for, unfortunately, my personal life or, you know, relationships in my life and that during those times.

But, you know, it's easy to reflect later and that.

But,

you know,

everything's meant for a reason.

I was very lucky and thankful to be a vice president of the American Trucking Association for many, many years.

And then I was the national chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association, which was probably...

About the greatest honor, I guess, on our business that you could really have for in a position.

So it really it got it gave me an opportunity to get back, get back to the industry through charities, you know, deal with a lot of Capitol Hill politicking and swaying.

And, you know, I got the privilege to go to the White House before to testify in front of Congress in that role.

Very

cool.

Yeah.

And, you know, a number of times on national news.

And that they would interview me for different things.

So, you know, some people would think it's great.

Some people would be like, why would you want to do that? Which, yeah.

But you loved it.

Yeah, I did.

I did.

It was it was it was great.

I mean, don't get me wrong.

It was it created a number of years that were relentless 24-7 planes life.

Yeah.

You

know, it didn't it didn't bode well for, unfortunately, my personal life or, you know, relationships in my life and that during those times.

But, you know, it's easy to reflect later and that.

But,

you know,

everything's meant for a reason.