Over the last eight years, Charles Kamindo has been running a trucking company under the brand name Kamindos Logistic LLC.
This venture has seen Kamindo emerge as one of the few Kenyans who have excelled greatly from trucking in US, while making millions of shillings.
Kamindo began his trucking journey in 2015. Today, he has a fleet of seven trucks, including the highly acclaimed Kenworth T680 models. He is based out of Deepwater in Wisconsin.
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“I started this business in 2015. I initially started with a straight truck then moved to 18-wheelers. I have grown from one truck to seven trucks by working with Kenyans who are here in the US as well as other American truckers, ” he said.
According to Kamindo, he worked with the straight trucks for about four to five years. He then decided to scale up and acquired 18-wheelers.
Kamindo explained that he works in his company together with his wife and kids. “This is why I chose the family name ‘Kamindo’ as my company name to represent what yhis business represents, which is my family,” said Kamindo on his company Kamindos Logistic LLC.
Kamindo explained that working as an owner operator in the US requires diligence and extreme hard work due to the prevailing challenges.
“When you go to the market, you find that trucks have become very expensive. Trailers are highly priced as well. To get a brand new truck, you might have to wait for five to six months after placing an order. However, when you look at the payments loads are giving, you find that they don’t match the operational costs,” he said.
Kamindo added that business has gone so bad for some owner operators that manu are opting to park their trucks.
“There are owner operators who are no longer able to run their trucks due to high operational costs. They have parked them and instead opted to become comlany drivers in order to earn a decent income,” said Kamindo.
Ironically, Kamindo noted that another prevalent challenge is lack of drivers. At the time of interview, he had three trucks parked because he had no drivers to drive them.
“Lack of drivers is a major challenge. I have parked these trucks because I am looking for drivers,” he said.
