“If you buy a truck, I’ll run it for you.” These words from a friend changed the trajectory of Donna Sleasman’s career in expedited trucking in 2014. Sleasman, who had started in long-haul trucking in the early 1980’s, became an expedite owner-operator in 2000 and continued in that role for the next fourteen years. Then in early 2014, a friend told Sleasman about her frustration with the way her current fleet owner was treating her and challenged Sleasman to buy an...