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“I couldn’t get enough of it and realized I needed to figure out a way to use an airplane in the business. It turns out that was pretty easy to do.’’
dumps and tankers to super dumps and concrete mixers.
He said he got hooked on trucking because the big trucks were fun to drive and he enjoyed being on the go. He felt the same about airplanes when as a 30-year-old, he went up with a flight instructor at Meacham Field in Fort Worth. That was 1984 and by then Glidewell was no longer driving, but managing a growing fleet of nearly 20 trucks.
“I just got hooked on flying,” he said. “I got my helicopter rating and was flying a lot. I couldn’t get enough of it and realized I needed to figure out a way to use an airplane in the business. It turns out that was pretty easy to do.”
Glidewell’s flying career aligns with the largest growth period for his business Sunset Logistics, and he definitely refers to it as one of the tools in the company’s tool box of success.
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