His rise has been both literal and figurative; his new office-with-a-view is symbolic of a soaring business that recently won him a place on Entrepreneur magazine's Hot 500 list of the nation's fastest-growing small businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/Hot500/Details/317.html.
The business is Big Sky Specialized Carriers Inc., a freight logistics company that connects people who need things hauled to the truckers who can haul them. Burks launched the company in October 1999 with an initial investment of $50,000 in personal savings. He turned a profit - and in fact, made his first $1 million - by the end of the same year.
By 2002, he saw $4.2 million in sales. Last year, his company posted $14.8 million in sales.
By TYLER CHRISTENSEN of the Missoulian
Full Story: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/09/15/news/local/news03.txt
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