F3 | Keynote: What It's Like to Bootstrap a Trucking Business to $2.5 Billion and Exiting: The Story of U.S. Xpress

F3 | Keynote: What It's Like to Bootstrap a Trucking Business to $2.5 Billion and Exiting: The Story of U.S. Xpress

Author: FreightWaves October 29, 2025 Duration: 45:33
Max is one of the visionaries that helped to create the truckload and logistics industries that we have today. As an early adopter of many safety, productivity and driver comfort, Max was very early on with items like power steering, air conditioning, steering stability controls, disc brakes, satellite communications, traction control, collision avoidance systems, electronics on engines years before it was accepted by the industry. He was one of the first to computerize his company in the mid 1980s. He would find technologies in Europe and push for implementation in the U.S. Max has developed companies in various industries with great success. He developed Paragon Trailer Rental which was sold to GE. He developed Xpress Data systems which he sold the software assets to Qualcomm. He started a company called Innovative Processing Solutions (a fintech software company) which was sold to US Bank. He co-founded a fintech company called TransCard which specializes in b to b and b to c payment applications. During his tenure at U.S. Xpress Enterprises, he completed 31 acquisitions with successful implementations. As a founder of US Xpress, he built the company to approximately $2,500,000,000 in total revenues. He has been on the SunTrust/Truist Advisory Board since 1994. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Podcast Episodes
F3 | Fireside Chat: Freight Fraud and the Proliferation of CDL Mills [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:20
Steve Gold is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 160 Driving Academy and the Truckers Network Association. He was formerly a Partner at Deloitte Consulting where he led Deloitte’s Enterprise Science Analytics pra…
F3 | Fireside Chat: Maritime Infrastructure and Governance [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:44
Louis E. Sola is a Partner at Thorn Run Partners, one of Washington, D.C.’s premier bipartisan consulting and lobbying firms. He brings nearly two decades of experience at the intersection of government, trade, and marit…
F3 | Fireside Chat: Building a Startup After Exiting Your Last [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:57
Prasad Gollapalli is chief executive officer, founder and chairman of the board of Qued, a pioneering cloud-based AI workflow automation platform transforming load appointment scheduling into the future. It seamlessly au…
F3 | Fireside Chat: Factoring and Finance: The State of Play [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:31
Bryan Alsobrooks is President of Phoenix Capital Group (PCG). PCG is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gulf Coast Bank & Trust Company and is a nationally recognized provider of working capital solutions to small- to medium-s…
F3 | Fireside Chat: Risk Management in Today's Supply Chain [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:16
David Shillingford is a Venture Partner at Columbia Capital and CoFounder of Everstream Analytics, a leading supply chain risk analytics company and his seventh venture. David has led the development of several industry-…
F3 | Fireside Chat: Back to Founder Mode [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:33
Scott founded Truckstop in 1995 with a mission to create a “better way” for freight professionals to work. As an early pioneer of the online load board, Scott helped revolutionize how freight moves across the country, ma…