BLP 365: For This Business, Success isn't Measured in Trucks

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For Matt and Sharon Kill, the goal was never to have the biggest fleet. But it took growing to 21 trucks — and nearly losing what mattered — to figure that out.

The family started with nothing: one truck, a borrowed belt trailer, and a 1950s pay loader that lost steering every time you let off the throttle. After Matt got let go from John Deere, they accidentally built a four-way ag operation — trucking, manure spreading, farming, and feed commodity trading out of Saint Mary's, Ohio.

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00:00 Meeting the Kill family

01:00 From John Deere to a borrowed belt trailer: how it started

04:10 Four businesses under one roof

04:32 The roller coaster: scaling from 8 to 21 trucks

06:42 Inside Ohio's massive ag country

07:08 The poultry litter business explained

09:20 "We started from nothing" — the old equipment days