Woman-owned Toledo, Ohio, trucking firm drives on safety, success.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News,  October, 2004  

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By Julie M. McKinnon, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 4--Kim Kaplan had worked her way up the ranks at the local Refiners Transport truck terminal, but she and her husband, Dean, knew its demise was coming.

So, days after the terminal closed, the trucking industry veterans opened their own business, K-Limited Carrier Ltd., in January 1997. The firm that hauls bulk liquids, such as petrochemicals and sulfuric acid, had revenues of $1.2 million that first year, a number expected to reach $10 million this year, said Mr. Kaplan, chief financial ...

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