'No dead miles' means lively business for AMV Trucking Mike Verdon and Stacy Dabin have a simple equation for running a successful business: full loads equal higher prots. A lot of the competition has cut their rates,” Verdon said. “The challenge is to keep our trucks loaded all the time. As we go into the ve boroughs of New York City, we bring stone for asphalt plants. When we come out, we bring petroleum-contaminated soil that’s used to top landlls. We bring sand from the south for concrete plants. In the winter we plow snow and haul salt. We keep the trucks loaded at all times so there are no dead miles.” That strategy has helped the owners of Dabin (pronounced DAH bin) Trucking (which does business as AMV Trucking) grow the company from a single truck and one employee to 40 trucks a

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