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It has been said that “if you want something done, give it to a busy person.” This seems appropriate in the case of Jerry Moyes, president and CEO of Phoen

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

January 21, 2008

It has been said that “if you want something done, give it to a busy person.” This seems appropriate in the case of Jerry Moyes, president and CEO of Phoenix-based Swift Transportation, the world’s largest truckload carrier, with 16,000 trucks and 50,000 trailers covering 34 million miles a week. When the company went public in 1990 it had gross revenues of $120 million. Eleven years later it grossed $2.1 billion and is projected to reach $5 billion by 2007.

Finding that running a billion-dollar enterprise and holding ownership positions in three major league sports teams didn’t occupy his every waking hour, Moyes set out some six years ago to start a business aviation operation of which, unlike Swift Transportation, he would be sole owner. When AIN recently caught up with Moyes during one of his brief, uncommon stationary moments, we asked how much of his time he puts into overseeing his aviation activities.

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