Hop to it and don’t dilly-dally on pushing play this week. We’re keeping it real – and keeping everyone in line – with Country Boy Kent Pitchford.
With understated humor that will have you in tears, Kent shares his take on Nussbaum’s office staff, rolling with change, and training new drivers. Get a behind the scenes, unfiltered diagnosis of sales, accounting, and operations at Nussbaum because Kent’s going to tell you how it is.
Don’t miss the genuine heart behind the loving teasing – in the span of a few recent years, Kent has beat cancer, quit smoking, and given his life to God.
This is an episode you don’t want to miss.
Quotes
- “The Sales guys, they lost my account for Caterpillar. And I sat down in front of them, and I said, ‘I outta take out your knee caps. I had this Dedicated run for six years!’”
- “I said, ‘You guys are messin’ with my gravy.’”
- “Oh, they’re my favorite women in all the world except for my wife and daughter. Because they’re the ones that take care of my paycheck.”
- “Brent handed me that hat and made me proud.”
- “I’ve got to give a shout out to all them guys in the office that are going out and getting their CDL’s.”
- “Some of them are just weenies and can’t handle it out there in the trucking world. So, they say, ‘Well, we’re gonna go hide behind the office.’”
- “Come on – wake up! You live down this road. And you still don’t know your exit!”
- “You can’t get over-rambunctious or over-excited about things. Just flow easy.”
- “You gotta be willing to get along with anybody. That’s one of the chores that’s tough.”
- “I had a friend of mine that was a cop. I said, ‘Run my MVR…’ And he kept scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.”
- Phillip: “I’m not sure we’d get a whole lot accomplished if you came in here to the office.”
- Kent: “No, because I’d probably fire half of them. So…”
- TEASER QUOTE “I haven’t laughed so hard through an interview in a long, long time.”
Kent’s Baptism (0:36 – 1:20)
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