fidefreight

Zach Wilcox is the Founder and CEO of Fide Freight, a family-owned domestic transportation company specializing in supply chain technology, logistics, and transportation solutions. In Zach’s role, he oversees all operations aspects, including sales, people development and training, and marketing. Before founding Fide Freight, Zach held project management, operations, and manufacturing roles across different companies. He has a business degree from Grand Valley State University.

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To attract great talent, a company must have systems to discuss the candidates in-depth. 

To streamline the hiring process, Zach Wilcox advocates for implementing processes for documenting the hiring process, tracking applicants, and a system for exchanging data and information. Adopting structured and comprehensive hiring practices allows the acquisitions team to streamline quality candidates. Create interview sheets to document special notes about each candidate's qualifications and resumes, which hiring managers can upload into a tracking system. Zach affirms that Monday.com is reliable software to manage all applicants, giving all interviewers access to all interviews, notes, and scorecards.

In this episode of the Talent Wins podcast, Chris Mursau welcomes Zach Wilcox, Founder and CEO of Fide Freight, for an informational conversation about hiring and interviewing processes. Zach discusses Fide Freight, how to amass new customers, leveraging core values to attract job candidates, and hiring strategies for acquiring top talent.

Resources Mentioned in this episode

• Chris Mursau on LinkedIn
• Topgrading on LinkedIn
• Topgrading
• Zach Wilcox on LinkedIn
• Fide Freight
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
• Who by Geoff Smart
• The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann
• Monday

Zach Wilcox is the Founder and CEO of Fide Freight, a representative logistics solution providing a full range of services in long and short-distance freight, specialty haulage, and management of dry freights. Zach and his team pride themselves on complete transparency and communication, from bringing on a client to getting the shipments completed on time.

Before founding Fide Freight, Zach held project management, operations, and manufacturing roles across various companies. He has a business degree from Grand Valley State University.

In this episode…

How can you build an enduring enterprise during a pandemic? What action steps can you take to cultivate an environment that creates a sense of great purpose within your employees?

Zach Wilcox started his logistic service at the onset of the pandemic — but through his core values of people, systems, clients, and profit, he managed to accelerate his business. When your core values are aligned, you can create a company working towards a bigger purpose. As a leader in the industry, Zach is here to share how going above and beyond will scale your brand. 

In this episode of the Rising Entrepreneurs Podcast, Jeremy Weisz of Rise25 sits down with Zach Wilcox, Founder and CEO of Fide Freight, to talk about creating togetherness by overcoming the challenges in the logistic industry. Zach discusses building core values as your brand’s foundation, the flywheel concept of hiring the right people that fit, and creating a culture of continuous business improvement and growth by going above and beyond with your service.

Zach Wilcox is the Founder and CEO of Fide Freight, a representative logistics solution providing a full range of services in long and short-distance freight, specialty haulage, and management of dry freights. Zach and his team pride themselves on complete transparency and communication, from bringing on a client to getting the shipments completed on time.

Before founding Fide Freight, Zach held project management, operations, and manufacturing roles across different companies. He has a business degree from Grand Valley State University. 

In this episode…

Core values have become the sound bite that punctuates every conversation with entrepreneurs. But since you’re in business to make profits, what is the ROI on your core values? Does staying true to your core values produce the business outcomes you seek, or are they some cool mantras to have? 

Zach Wilcox, the Founder and CEO of Fide Freight, let us in on his company’s secret sauce for generating revenue and edging out competitors through core values. He talks about Fide Freight’s core values and how they impact the bottom line. Beyond that, he shares insights on the most important part many companies grapple with — maintaining a working culture. 

Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Founder and CEO of Fide Freight, Zach Wilcox. They talk about Zach’s pivot from manufacturing to logistics, the hurdles he faced when starting a company, and how developing and sticking to a set of core values can help you grow and gain market share quickly.