Entrepreneurs: Newsmakers
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When Heineken wanted a new company to haul its brew in the U.S. last year, it hired a Chicago upstart that didn’t own a single tractor-trailer. What Coyote Logistics offered instead was the undivided attention of founder Jeff Silver, a 48- year-old trucking industry veteran who promised to get the beer from ports to distribution centers less expensively than the competition would. Although the Dutch brewer was his biggest client yet, Silver was confident he could deliver. “It’s really as simple as doing what you say you are going to,” he says.
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