May 28, 2026
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OUVacbL2k7g
For Matt and Sharon Kill, the goal was never to have the biggest fleet. But it took growing to 21 trucks — and nearly losing what mattered — to figure that out.
The family started with nothing: one truck, a borrowed belt trailer, and a 1950s pay loader that lost steering every time you let off the throttle. After Matt got let go from John Deere, they accidentally built a four-way ag operation — trucking, manure spreading, farming, and feed commodity trading out of Saint Mary's, Ohio.
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00:00 Meeting the Kill family
01:00 From John Deere to a borrowed belt trailer: how it started
04:10 Four businesses under one roof
04:32 The roller coaster: scaling from 8 to 21 trucks
06:42 Inside Ohio's massive ag country
07:08 The poultry litter business explained
09:20 "We started from nothing" — the old equipment days
11:07 Buying totaled belt trailers for pennies
11:49 The hardest part of the job
13:15 "Maybe we should just give this up"
15:31 Matt's learning disabilities and building it anyway
16:26 Who runs what: the team behind the operation
18:27 Where the business goes from here
20:25 Why no two farming operations are the same
22:28 Best advice for someone starting in trucking
26:33 Building it together from day one
28:42 What they pull from the BulkLoads podcast
29:13 Thank you