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Avery Tomek bought his first little $1m FedEx route with an SBA loan. 3 years later, he has 240 trucks and $600k weeks.

Topics in Avery’s interview:

• Pivoting from real estate to FedEx routes
• Ups and downs of Covid
• Expanding his fleet
• Running his logistics business remotely
• Everything hinges on weekly deposits
• What makes a route lucrative (or costly)
• No marketing or sales. Just operations.
• Resale value of a FedEx route
• Demanding nature of the business
• “If you’re good, the world will compensate you.”

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron