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* USA - Johnnie Bryan Hunt went from sharecropper’s son to trucking tycoon..
Texarkana,TX,USA -The Texarkana Gazette -Dec 11, 2006: -- J.B. Hunt: You’ve seen his name a thousand times. In black on the signature yellow background. It adorns thousands of trucks that carry goods all across the land... J.B. Hunt: The name is synonymous with trucking... Johnnie Bryan Hunt Sr., a sharecropper’s son who went from driving a truck between Texarkana and Fort Smith to creating one the largest trucking companies in the country, died Thursday at 79... Hunt was born in Heber Springs. He quit school at age 12 to help out at his uncle’s sawmill. After a stint in the army, he went back to the sawmill and worked there as well as in any number of other jobs to bring some extra money... In 1949 the sawmill went broke and Hunt got a job driving a truck between Texarkana and Fort Smith for about $40 a week. He married his wife Johnelle in 1952 and for a time the couple made their home in Texarkana... J.B. Hunt is a true American success story and an inspiration to us all...
* USA - Ex-military man enjoys new career with Getloaded.com - Freight matching suits Bryan Jones
Charlottesville,VA,USA -The Charlottesville Daily Progress, by CHIP JONES -Dec 12, 2006: -- Bryan Jones never expected to be a company president so young... But two years ago, as he prepared to leave the Navy, he was approached by the head of a company with a funny name: Getloaded.com... "Getloaded really matched up with a lot of things I was looking for in a career," said Jones, 31... After a decade in the military, he wanted to find someplace he could leave his mark... Since joining the company in mid-2004, Jones said he has helped Getloaded.com increase annual revenue 80 percent per year. Jones, who became president last June, declined to give sales figures...
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