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Ted Fyock Jr. spent six years as an Army armor officer, deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division, and then built a career in consulting before starting Carolina Expressways, a bulk freight brokerage, from nothing. Jared Flinn sat down with Ted at Fort Hunt, Virginia, on land George Washington once owned, to walk the whole road. Winston-Salem roots and a family that has served in nearly every American conflict since the Revolutionary War. ROTC at Appalachian State and a commission in 2007, at the height of the surge. Kuwait, Baghdad, and Sadr City. Marrying at 24 and meeting his wife in Paris at the six month mark of a twelve month deployment. Then twelve years at Deloitte Consulting that ended when DOGE cut roughly $20 million of the contract work he was leading and a reduction in force followed. At Oktoberfest at his church, he turned to his wife and told her he was going to start a business. The back half is the freight education. Why he chose bulk instead of a saturated broker market, what his first Bulk Freight Conference in Branson did for a guy with zero industry experience, and the tuition he has paid in year one, including a truck hauling corn that was struck by a CSX train. He gets into how a brand new brokerage gets in a shipper's door, why veteran owned is more than a line on a website, how running supply for a tank company translates to moving hoppers, moving a skid steer to a private island, and where Carolina Expressways is headed by 2030. Faith, family, and 250 years of American opportunity close it out.
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00:00 Fort Hunt, Virginia, on land George Washington owned
01:34 A family that has served since the Revolutionary War
04:00 ROTC at Appalachian State and commissioning in 2007
05:11 What an armor officer actually does
07:05 Married at 24, then a year apart
10:21 Kuwait, Baghdad, and Sadr City
13:20 Coming home and the assignment at Walter Reed
17:53 Leaving the Army at the six year mark
19:55 Twelve years at Deloitte Consulting
23:01 DOGE, $20 million in contracts, and a layoff
27:02 "I think I'm going to start a business"
27:49 How Carolina Expressways got its name
33:05 Why he chose bulk freight
34:38 First trip to the Bulk Freight Conference in Branson
40:01 A load of corn and a CSX train
47:48 How a brand new broker gets in the door
57:41 Why veteran owned is more than a marketing line
01:00:38 The military is a logistics organization
01:06:19 Where Carolina Expressways goes by 2030
01:13:04 Faith, family, and 250 years of opportunity
