“I have big shoes to fill,” he said. “It always
weighs on you. You always want to be your
own person. It gets difficult at times, but
what I try to do is take the good and bad of
every situation. The expertise of my father
and the knowledge he had given to me, I
knew it had the potential to be something
special.”
To say it’s reached that level would be
flirtingwith anunderstatement.
CMAC Transportationwas founded13
years ago with 15 drivers, seven trucks and
20 trailers has since swelled to more than
300 employees – 75 percent of whom are
drivers, Christie said – and a 287,000-
square-foot warehouse space in the
southwest suburbs of Detroit that’s a key
linchpin in a logistical chain stretching
across the U.S. and into both Canada and
Mexico.
The company provides warehousing ,
consolidation, transportation and on-site
switching services, and its revenue, which
was flagging at $13 million in the midst of
an automotive industry-ravaging recession
five years ago, is now in excess of $50million
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