'Never hand a trucker a dead fish'

摘要

David Congdon is a third-generation trucker. And that's what gets him up every morning. "I love the business, which is why not much keeps me awake at night, " says the president and CEO of Thomasville, NC-based Old Dominion Freight Line.rnAmerica's sixth largest LTL company celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2009 and while profit for the year may be down 50-60 percent, "we have a profit and the rest of the industry has losses," notes its boss.rnCongdon started in his father's business at the age of 14-loading boxes on trucks to earn money for a trip to Japan.