If you’ve ever considered being a truck driver, Bob Poulos has a job for you.
Poulos is a Chattanooga-area resident and former vice president of sales at U.S. Xpress here who’s also co-founder and CEO of V3 Transportation, a Cleveland, Ohio area-based trucking company that does “expedited” or just-in-time transportation.
Founded in 2012, V3 Transportation has grown from a two-laptop, two-cell phone operation to a company with about 50 support staff, a 235-truck fleet and $17.1 million in revenue last year.
If an automobile plant runs low on a key part, it can call V3 Transportation, which will dispatch a truck in time to save the day and keep the assembly line running.
Customers spend about $3 billion annually on expedited shipping, Poulos said – compared to about $600 billion spent annually on trucking, overall.