* Manila - Trucking through the path less traveled
-- The trucking industry is usually a field dominated by men. It is understandably so, because of the work it entails. But Kristine Pearce found her “calling” to go back full circle and help run her family’s trucking business, and helped it grow to where it is today. Kristine is the comptroller, board member and one of the registered owners of Explorer Freight, a Philippine-based company that provides trucking and Customs brokerage services... Kristine proudly states that Explorer Freight is now on its 29th year of operations, and they’re gearing up to celebrate their 30th year in 2016. Looking back, she says, the company has indeed gone a long way, especially because the business was born as a result of a career stumbling block that Kristine’s father faced. It was 1987 she says, when her father, a chemical engineer, was retrenched from work, and got a severance package of P90,000.00. But the same company he worked for, also gave him a small window of opportunity, by telling him he could provide them trucking services. “So he used that money to buy one truck, the office was our house, and his first customer was his former employer,” Kristine narrates. It was a difficult time for their family then, Kristine says, but through perseverance and dogged determination, their business slowly grew... In 1990, they turned the business into a corporation, as their client-base expanded to servicing most of the chemical companies operating in the country. Today, Explorer Freight is into trucking, freight forwarding for international and domestic, and their single truck has turned into a fleet of 50 trucks. Their clientele had also vastly expanded, with a significant chunk of their business now going into servicing big construction projects...
(Photo by Ruy Martinez - Kristine Pearce, comptroller, Explorer Freight) -- Manila, Philippines - The Manila Times, by KIM BERNARDO-LOKIN - August 9, 2015
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