
Building a $25m FedEx Route Empire from $100k Equity
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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
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