Fortune was started in 1980 by Donavan Olson, with one truck and a dream. That dream being to build a trucking company that would provide his family and his employees a good life where we would all have the opportunity to work hard, and to play hard, too.
Nearly 45 years later, we are operating 150 trucks with nearly 200 employees with three terminals. The philosophy of work hard, play hard has a foundation in this simple mantra, get the best people you can get, give them the tools they need to do the job you are asking them to do, then get out of their way and expect them to do that job well!
Fortune Transportation is a family-oriented company where employees can earn a good paycheck and still find a way to attend the critical life events like weddings, graduations and those big games, too!
Members of the Fortune Family know that when they need to be somewhere, their teammates will do what they can to make that happen. But they also know that comes with an expectation and a responsibility to each other. As employees, I might need your help today but tomorrow you will need mine so we’re here to work together to accomplish the needs of our customers.
In 1995, Fortune was first awarded the Grand Trophy for Safety as the safest company in the state of MN. In the decades that follow, Fortune has been awarded that Trophy more than once as well as achieving the highest honors in our nation winning the ATA Presidents Trophy for Safety multiple times as well as the TCA Grand Prize for Safety, all as recently as 2023 and 2024! We operate our lanes and dispatch in a manner that allows for maximizing Elog hours to generate miles while operating in less congested regions of the country with safer locations for stopovers.
More than 130 of our drivers have achieved status in our Million Mile Club, including dozens in the 2 Million Mile Club, a dozen in the 3 Million Mile Club - and our 4th MMC member is looking to achieve the 4 Million mark later this year. Not bad for a little tractor shop from a cornfield in south-west Minnesota!
Our drivers who achieve this status get a plaque and get to choose the color & wrap on the outside of their truck (we’ve got some pretty creative drivers).